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

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -1000, david wrote:
>> Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2011 07:23 PM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) 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.
>>>> Any idea?
>>> Hello Alessandro,
>>>
>>> A netbook is probably your best bet. I'm using a cheap Packard Bell
>>> myself as a guitar effect unit or as a synth module. Took some time to
>>> set it up but it works remarkably well.
>> And if you set it up so it's running either no GUI or a very light  
>> desktop environment, and turn off things like wireless, it should work  
>> reasonably. I believe the person on the list who uses a netbook for  
>> synthesizer uses linxusampler loading a 4GB piano aoundfont on a 2GB  
>> netbook without any problems.
> 
> That would have been me, I think. I gigged more or less constantly with this for over 2 years.
> 
> Circa 2008 era Asus EEE 1000, 1.2Ghz Atom, with SSD drive, 2GB RAM.
> 
> I ran, simultaneously, LinuxSampler, several FluidSynth instances, MonoSynth, Beatrix, several Jack-Rack instances packed with LADSPA stuff, a mixer app, some homegrown daemons in c and pythin, and some other stuff I can't remember right now. Live. All night long. This was of course with an Ingo RT kernel.
> 
> Worked great. I'd recommend netbooks for Linux audio live performance.

Thanks, Ken, thought it was you. The newer netbooks (my wife's is about 
6 months old) runs a dual-core, 1.6GHz Atom.

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