On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -1000, david wrote: > 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. That would have been me, I think. I gigged more or less constantly with this for over 2 years. Circa 2008 era Asus EEE 1000, 1.2Ghz Atom, with SSD drive, 2GB RAM. I ran, simultaneously, LinuxSampler, several FluidSynth instances, MonoSynth, Beatrix, several Jack-Rack instances packed with LADSPA stuff, a mixer app, some homegrown daemons in c and pythin, and some other stuff I can't remember right now. Live. All night long. This was of course with an Ingo RT kernel. Worked great. I'd recommend netbooks for Linux audio live performance. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
