[linux-audio-user] IUPUI Student Radio Station should be based on Linux

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:03:07 -0500, ben racher wrote:
> Production Computer... so I've been tooling around with JACK and Ardour 
> and MusE (not to be confused with MuSE) and other JACK apps and its all 
> really cool and exciting. I never got the sound input to even really 
> work in linux until a couple weeks ago. Yay for the 2.6.8+ kernels. So 
> here are my thoughts on setting up a workstation, and I don't even know 
> if this is possible, but that's why I'm mailing you guys. One department 
> has kindly donated a brand new Dell Poweredge Dual Xeon 2.4 ghz somethin 
> or other. The rest of our computers are from the university junkyard of 
> midgrade PowerPC G4s and Pentium 3s. So the Poweredge is our gem 
> computer out of all the other crappy computers. Is there any way for me 
> to set up the speedy new poweredge as some kind of audio production 
> renderfarm, and get the PPCs and the Pentium 3s to connect to it as 
> production terminals? Cause, although multi-tracking on the G4s and 
> Pentium 3s is possible, doing extensive work with FX plugins is probably 
> out of the question.

Dont forget X. You can put the noisey new machine in a cupboard somewhere,
as long as it has audio connections, and control it from one of the P3's
etc. over X11.

I forwarded your message to one of the guys who runs the student radio
station here http://www.surgeradio.co.uk/ its linux and donated hardware
based, and they have a very good setup, so maybe he can offer some advice.

- Steve