Re: Synths for live use

[Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 20, 2012 1:14 PM, "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:50 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Yes. I'm just trying out different things. I had Debian on the desktop computer for a long time (10 yrs without a reinstall!) I have Ubuntu Studio on my work laptop and a minimal ubuntu + LXDE on the netbook.. I thought AVLinux was looking good from pov of Jack performance but I am hitting some problems with the apps installed (optimised for SSE2 when my CPU wont do it, this linuxsampler problem etc..).
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> not having an SSE2 CPU seems like a bad, bad place to start ...

Perhaps.. but I don't see myself upgrading in the near future. After all, it has handled everything I havd thrown at it until now.. and I am not trying to do anything dramatically different or more CPU intense than anything I have done before.

I don't think Athlon XPs are that uncommon amongst Linux users given our fondness for keeping machines running as long as possible!

intel-compatible CPUs that do not support SSE2 are now a rare breed in desktops + laptops. i'm not saying it can't be used, just that you're doing without a very very powerful set of instructions that dramatically improves the performance of apps doing floating point math (e.g. audio). its just not a machine i'd pick to do synthesis with unless it my only choice.
 

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