[linux-audio-user] How broken are epia boards for use with ardour?(sorry if you've seen this message many times)

[Alejandro Lopez]

Hi James,

The setup I'm planning, which is rather affordable, is a normal noisy 
desktop PC (CPU only with no screen, keyboard or mouse), LAN connected to a 
cheap laptop which would act as the console. The advantages I expect this 
setup to bring are:

-I can take the noisy PC off the recording room easily.

-Its CPU won't need to generate graphics, so I get a few CPU extra cycles 
for audio

-My studio will be reasonably easy to move from place to place (compared to 
a full desktop PC with a CRT and stuff) at an affordable price. This is good 
because I cannot record drums at home for instance, so for this kind of 
thing I plan to hire a rehearsal studio.

I'm still in the proccess of configuring everything, but I've already tried 
to export a X windows display over my net (which is 10 Mb!) and it works 
perfectly, I mean it's responsive enough. The laptop I'm using is a Pentium 
100 MHz which you can get second hand really cheap, only fault is battery is 
dead (irrelevant in my application), it has a 1 Gb hard disk (enough for 
Linux + X windows) and a 800 x 600 TFT (the low resolution is a bugger but I 
hope it's just "usable").

Maybe a route to consider?

Cheers,

Alex


>Otherwise, does anyone have any alternative suggestions about putting 
>together a good-as-silent machine for only a little cash? (this set-up with 
>a DVD burner will set me back around 350 pounds sterling not including the 
>soundcard.)

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