Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
On 10/24/2011 07:23 PM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) wrote:
Does anybody have any idea for a device
(smartphone/tablet/netbook/mini-pc...) that could run jackd and thus be used
as an effects processor or synth module?
I really don't know where to look, but the idea intrigues me. It should
probably be something with a usb port, in order to connect midi stuff or an
external audio card.
Any idea?
Hello Alessandro,
A netbook is probably your best bet. I'm using a cheap Packard Bell
myself as a guitar effect unit or as a synth module. Took some time to
set it up but it works remarkably well.
And if you set it up so it's running either no GUI or a very light
desktop environment, and turn off things like wireless, it should work
reasonably. I believe the person on the list who uses a netbook for
synthesizer uses linxusampler loading a 4GB piano aoundfont on a 2GB
netbook without any problems.
An audiophile friend of mine had an audio PC set up on his network to
play music into his stereo setup. He was using a compact PC with an
M-Audio Audiophile card in it. He replaced it with a netbook, and
reports that there's no audible difference between the netbook's onboard
Intel audio and the Audiophile card.
I now have his old compact PC sitting here, trying to figure out what I
want to do with it ... maybe add a small LCD and keyboard/pointer device
and use it as a synthesizer box.
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