Dan S wrote: > Yes, why not. You get much nicer results if you use an external sound > card rather than trying to hook up to the small jacks on most laptops > (because of impedance matching but also balanced sockets help > eliminate hum etc), which adds to cost if you don't already have that. I use a USB sound card (Behringer UCA202) that has line-level stereo RCA jack inputs and outputs - I wouldn't waste time running the output of that old laptop's onboard Intel audio into a real sound system! > It's unlikely that you need a machine with a particularly fast > processor, if you're doing straightforward effects and maybe a > softsynth too. The main concern is to use a system that can give > low-latency audio I/O, since the guitarist/violinist/whoever In this case, me on keyboard. > will *very* quickly notice the latency and feel very uncomfortable with it, > if it's more than (say) one or two dozen milliseconds. So do use a > linux distro with a real-time kernel (e.g. ubuntu studio, pure:dyne). I was thinking I'd do that. I've downloaded a number of them. I'm not using a real-time kernel on my regular laptop, and it shows. > HTH > Dan > > 2009/4/29, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> The guitarist in my church band has been using a hefty effects box for >> years (of course). Our violinist just bought a small one for chorus >> effects. I should figure out to use my laptop as a synthesizer and >> effects box and start bringing it along. Or maybe I should set up my >> wife's old laptop for that - it's got a faster processor in it. Anyway, >> suggestions/thoughts? -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
