On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:44:14AM +0400, Artem Vakhitov wrote: > Hello fellow Linux audio users, > > I'm back to dabbling with Linux as an audio system. Among other > things, I play bass guitar in a synth pop band and recently started > to get interested in bass synthesizers. I could of course buy > something like Markbass Super Synth, but then I thought - maybe I > could cobble together something using my Samsung Q35 laptop and > Linux? The laptop has a dual core processor and 2.5GB RAM. The sound > card is a variable here: it could be the built-in Intel HDA (for > this particular purpose, why not), or an Infrasonic DeuX (Firewire) > that I have, or even some used Echo Indigo (PCMCIA). > > Is what I want viable at all with a reasonable latency? What > software setup can I use for that? Does anybody here use something > similar live? > In my experience, you've got more than enough hardware there to do many things. I made tons of music with softsynths on top of softsynths, plugins, etc, on a 2007-era Asus Core2Duo at 2Ghz with 2GB RAM. Much of that music was posted here. I also mixed a band CD using that same hardware. And I used it as a live synth for a few years too. The key is to get a low-latency kernel. At the time (2007) I had to homegrow that stuff, but nowadays it seems AVLinux is the easiest to set up with that. The latency I got with my low-end FastTrack Pro USB interface was 3 periods at 128 each, 44.1khz. More than goood enough for recording/mixing/softsynths, and totally reliable, never glitched on me once after I got everything dialed in. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
