Jano wrote: > Hello everyone in this my first message, hope you can give me some advice in > this semi-OT question. > > I have a clavinova keyboard which sounds are growing tiresome on me. I have > often used my laptop with ubuntu studio and a regular midi-to-usb cable to use > qsynth with soundfonts from my collection grown over the years. This works > quite well, but since this laptop is not always there, and tinkering with > cables is always a bit of a chore, I'm thinking of some more definitive > solution. > > One possibility is to have a (preferably cheap) silent small linux box always > on the keyboard. I guess that after the initial setup it should work as fine > as the laptop (although I intend not to have a monitor there, so the aspect of > presets should receive a bit more thinking). One candidate could be this one, > or something along these lines. I should think it would be powerful enough? I'm > not really sure about the CPU demands of qsynth. > > http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7_Ubuntu_PC.html > > Another possibility is some basic stand-alone sampler. I confess not to know > the current hardware that could serve for this, I've always been a PC man. I'd > prefer one capable of using soundfonts, or at least some format to which sf > can be converted, since I'm quite used to my collection. > > And of course any other option I haven't think of. > > Thanks in advance for any comments, > > You could have a look at the motherboards and cases here: http://www.mini-itx.com/ If you know a bit of programming, you might be able to hack this case: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#m200-lcd to let you choose presets on the built in LCD / keypad. andy andy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
