On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:12:06PM -1000, david wrote: > Ken Restivo wrote: >> 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. > > Thanks, Ken, thought it was you. The newer netbooks (my wife's is about > 6 months old) runs a dual-core, 1.6GHz Atom. > I should note, IIRC mine isn't dual-core, but it lied and said it was, it using some weird hyperthreading thing. It crashed the Ingo RT kernel, so I turned it off in the BIOS. It's a single-core machine, and shows up as a single-core machine, and all is well. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
