30 May
2012
30 May
'12
6:21 p.m.
On 30 May 2012, at 16:58, Robin Gareus wrote:
Yes I know about MOTU. But that's the asset I have, so it would save me money getting
an additional interface. If the onboard sound can go to 8x analog that would be perfect,
otherwise I will need to add a cheap multichannel sound interface. 8 chans would be
minimum. your presonus is definitely out of the current budget.
best, .h.h.
On 05/30/2012 03:09 PM, Sciss wrote:
thanks for the link and the info. so you think atom processors are fine enough? the
latency actually doesn't matter in my case. i'm more worried that i'm going to
through a lot of CPU heavy stuff on it, as this will run experimental software I wrote
myself (and I won't have any time for performance tuning of the software itself).
hi,
I don't know if this is the best place to ask, as it's more of a hardware
question...
I will need to get a good + cheap + reliable machine to sound installations. I can invest
_max_ £400 (EUR 500) and I need to get hold of the machine latest by August. Unless a
miracle happens and a new Mac Mini model is announced, dropping the prices of current
models by at least £150, I am looking for something comparable of the i5 2.3 GHz Mac Min,
Linux based.
It can't be desktop size, it really should be a portable thing, size factor/ weight
not much larger than first gen Mac Mini.
The nettops seem all underpowered for computation expensive realtime apps. I came across
this : http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-giga-id72-plus.html -- but seems like a new model or
so, can't find any retailers or pricing info, at least not in the UK.
Minimum specs would be i3 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB HD. Will be audio only, so I guess
graphics card doesn't matter. And of course, it needs to run Linux audio -- my stuff
will use SuperCollider and various things on the Java VM.
ASUS EEEbox comes to mind.
If you like bare-bones: search for "Advantech Single Board Computers".
They come without HDD, w/o power-supply and w/o case (it's not a "box"
per se), but there are powerful models available that meet your specs
and even with PS, HDD and case will be within in your budget.
http://buy.advantech.eu/Embedded+computer+embedded+pc+bo/3+5+Single+Board+C…
I'm just setting up an installation using a PCM-9363D-S8A1E (Atom CPU
64bit, 1.8GHz, 2 cores [4 w/hyperthreading], 4 GB RAM) + USB2-Audio
Presonus 1818VSL: 8 channel audio I/O -- jackd runs stable at "-p64
-r48000 -n2" ~6ms round-trip latency with debian/wheezy's RT-kernel. How about audio interfaces? I guess there is no
chance I can connect a MOTU 828 Mk II to any of these boxes?
Firewire is rare these days. Besides: "MOTU is hostile towards Linux"
[http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/63] :)
How many channels do you need?