[LAU] need help in san francisco

jim jim at well.com
Mon Jun 27 16:15:02 UTC 2011



    helps a ton, thanks! 
    Are you using a laptop or a tower? Seems to 
me probably a tower, given your specs. 
    Are you using any music-specific expansion 
cards? 


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 14:29 +0200, pshirkey at boosthardware.com wrote:
> >
> >     any body willing to help me out in san francisco?
> > the project is to set up a recording and sequencing
> > system for scratch (semi-pro-quality) recording.
> >     i'm an out of work musician but none-the-less
> > willing to pay money.
> >
> > problems include:
> > * determine the right computer to buy
> >     for example: buy a tower or a laptop or both? if a
> >     tower, what expansion cards to buy?
> > * determine what software to use
> > * determine i/o and other hardware
> > * how to drive a roland X10, other roland digital
> >   keyboard?
> >     what other external hardware to buy? drum machine?
> >     other music instrument hardware? (i like having
> >     instrument voices in external hardware so's not to
> >     burden the CPU of the computer running recording or
> >     sequencing software.)
> > * use existing pro-tools recordings on the new linux
> >   system
> >
> > hopefully,
> > jim
> > PS: music store people i've talked to have no clue about
> > linux stuff.
> > i have read reviews and other online info and cannot find
> > what i need: specifics to put a small, basic system
> > together (what CPU speed, RAM, storage... to buy; is there
> > reasonably good quality recording or sound generation or
> > audio playback stuff in expansion card form that works
> > with linux; are there necessary drivers or libraries that
> > are not obvious to someone new to setting up these systems;
> > what are the solutions to problems that typically come
> > with the specific hardware and software components...?).
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> 
> You can do amazing things with an eeepc. So in terms of hardware anything
> new will be powerful enough to achieve something useful. I personally use
> a 4 core cpu with 8 GB RAM and that has enough power to do everything I
> throw at it.
> 
> You will need to use JACK and depending on the distribution you choose you
> may need to enable third party repos (CCRMA) to get access to all the
> latest and greatest tools. Alot of people speak highly of AVLinux
> 
> http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
> 
> There is also indamixx: http://indamixx.com
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
> 
> 
> 




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