On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 06:06, Arnold Krille wrote: > My big PC (P4 2,8GHz, 512MB Ram) runs everything on one box: ardour, > qsampler (+linuxsampler), zynaddsubfx, hydrogen, effects... So on the one machine you have a chain like the following: MIDI sequencer --> LinuxSampler --> Ardour all running at once. That's pretty cool. LinuxSampler taxes my machine quite a bit, but I like to use good libraries. My Atari is dying a slow death. I keep resuscitating it because I have a lot of music in there. I'm slowly transfering everything to the Linux box via MIDI. I want to build a rackmounted beast of a machine that could potentially become the heart of my set-up. I'd love to hear everybody's comments/suggestion regarding the choice of HW (mobo, sound card, etc.) I currently run the Planet (FC 2). the main audio programs I use are Muse, LinuxSampler and of course Ardour.