[LAU] small/cheap devices that can run jackd?

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 17:27:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep)
<lsnpreziosi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody have any idea for a device
> (smartphone/tablet/netbook/mini-pc...) that could run jackd and thus be used
> as an effects processor or synth module?
> I really don't know where to look, but the idea intrigues me. It should
> probably be something with a usb port, in order to connect midi stuff or an
> external audio card.

Just about any mini pc, notebook or netbook should be capable of
running Linux and jackd. Be careful of something that's underpowered,
like a netbook, they could choke on a lot of DSP.

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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