On board sound no problem.<br>Transmission will run on those Via boards.<br>Go with a well maintained distro for audio or music, make sure it has RT and take a look at Stretchplayer.<br>That base part of your build is already fully implemented so you can spend time building up from there.<br>
Good luck!<br><br>Thnx<br>Ronald Stewart<br>Indamixx<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Batz <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:batzman-lau@all-electric.com">batzman-lau@all-electric.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Y-ellow All.<br>
        Seems I&#39;ve exhausted all hope of getting the A4000 running so I need to start planning out a system for a linux based sampler, sooner rather than later. So I&#39;m hoping I can glean some initial answers here.<br>

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Firstly I need to know if it&#39;s wiser to go to a 64 bit or 32 bit distro of Slackware? Assuming of course I get a suitable 64 bit capable mo-bo.<br>
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Second question. Is it possible to get extremely low (read real-time) latency from an on-board or el-cheapo sound card, or do I have to look for something specific? If so is there a list of preferred sound card/devices?<br>

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I have some older Hoontech DSP24 cards kicking around if they would suffice. These were quite a respectable card in their day and have more than what I need. IE: S/PDIF I/Os. Although if I end up using a lap top mo-bo then I&#39;ll need to buy a USB or PCMCIA or something?<br>

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It would be nice if I could get away with on-board sound though. You can&#39;t do that under windows even using ASIO drivers but perhaps there&#39;s a trick under ALSA? The reason I ask is that I&#39;ve got a bunch of teensy, tiny VIA based mo-bos. All-in-one. And they&#39;d make a great little synth. Even if it was only a mono-synth. Obviously not powerful enough for my immediate needs but it would be somewhat cool to press these things into service as a small linux based synth.<br>

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Thanks in advance. Very much appreciated.<br>
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