On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:35:44PM +0100, Thomas Ilnseher wrote : > > Am Donnerstag, den 20.03.2008, 09:52 +0100 schrieb Aurelien: > > Hi! > > > > The FREE label AMMD in which I work is going to buy and build a > > professionnal studio based on free software and destined to produce free > > arts only. > > The project is quite advanced, but I'd like to know your mind about the > > configuration we think about, and if there are people already using this > > kinda material, any feedback would be welcome! > > > > So , here it is: > > > > - System : Ubuntu Studio and/or Debian self-customized for > > audio-purposes. Does it have a big interest for such audio > > applications to install a 64bits distribution? I suppose there will be > > problems with some 32bits plugins, although there is the > > ndispluginwrapper solution. It's bit like a troll, but it really > > matters for us. > Why do you need flash in a studio ? No, I thought about effects plugs (synth, reverb, comp, and so on). > > - Should work essentially with Ardour > > - Hardware (PC): > > . Proc: we were going on a dual core (Intel or AMD), but as we've > > seen that quadri-pro are not so expensive anymore, what do you think > > about it? > depends on your workload. I can't comment on ardour or that stuff (If > the app is multithreaded or not). > > You should stay away from 9x00 phenoms, (taht means intel right now, if > you ar going to quadcore) as these chips are buggy. Bugfixed Phenoms > will be called 9x50. > > . RAM: 4Gb at least (if quadri-pro, much more) > If you are going to 32bit, each application can use a maximum of > probably 2 or 3 gbytes (don't know exactly the limit). If you start > multiple applications, you can still exploit your ram. as unused ram > would be used as page cache, 4 GB will make sense on a 32bit system, but > 8 GB only if you are going to start multiple memory intensive apps in > parallel OK. > > . Motherboard: we were thinking about using RAID (5 probably) in > > order to increase reading speed, but it's only based on an > > assumption (intuition?) that we could raise up the perf that way. > > Are we right? > I wouldn't say so. But i have nothing to proof my point. that's just my > intuition. The raid stuff will increase bandwith, but worsen latency > (eg. access time). I'd say that for TYPICAL sata hdds and usage > patterns, the access time is more important than the bandwith. Ahow... Perhaps. But on typical projects like 70-80 tracks to read (that's what we're talking about, there are very big bands in our label), don't you think bandwidth becomes predominant? (I don't have any idea about it). > > We'd like this motherboard not to have audio-embedded. > all modern mainboards i know of have audio onboard. but you can disable > it in the bios, or just blacklist the driver. > > . Graphics: We just want something easy to install (no proprietary > > drivers) that can driver 2 screens in Xinerama mode the easiest way > > as possible (my ATI Radeon X850 GTO 16 is not a fair example!). We > > don't have any idea about it actually, what about you? > My notebook has an i965gm, which works perfectly. BUT it's not fast > enough for serious gaming. (compiz-fusion works, and it's fast enough > quake 3). If you are going to use 2 Screens, this implications apply: > a) you need an ADD2 card for your mainboard > b) you can only connect ONE monitor per DVI, the other one needs VGA What do you mean? > c) as the driver only supports 2048x2048 textures, you can forget about > running compiz-fusion with an reasonable resolution per monitor. OK, let's forget about compiz, it's not the purpose! I think we're gonna use XFCE which should be light and usable for everybody (even those sound ingeneers who don't have seen anything else than Mac OS !) > > . Hard Drives: we think about a SATA drive for system, and > > day-to-day life, and then think about an external SATA solution > > which allows to bring a new drive for every project (there will > > probably be something like 3 or 4 albums a year on this studio). Of > > course, if we want our assumption upon RAID5 to work, we need to > > have two identical eSATA drives for each record session. > Nope, for RAID5 you need at least 3 harddisks. With 2 harddisks, you > have the choice between RAID0 (performance, lower reliability) and RAID1 > (higher reliability) OK, I have to get back to RAID and to learn a bit more about it. -- ============================== ORL /// AMMD Booking (www.ammd.net) ° Sebkha-Chott (www.sebkhachott.net - Ohreland [FR]) - next touring period: 04-06/2008 ° Unexpect (www.unexpect.com - Montréal [CA]) - Europe tour w/ Sebkha-Chott period: 09-12/2008 ° La Muette (www.myspace.com/muette - Paris [FR]) - next touring period: 03-05/2008 ° Mel-P (http://melpmusic.websanslimit.net - Le Mans [FR]) - next touring period: 01-04/2008 Phone: +33 (0)95 234 72 48 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
