Ken Restivo wrote:
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.
Yah, the Intel processors offer hyperthreading, which is supposed to
give them the ability to run multiple threads at the same time on a
single-core.
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David
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