On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 08:15:46PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
If you don't need a visual environment then you
can run without X. I have
servers online running this way. They don't even have sound cards and use
jack -dummy instead. Everything can be controlled by external hardware
and/or command line fu.
This is definitely more what I had in mind. I don't
want to be dealing with
a computer, I want it to feel like an instrument. So controlled by MIDI and
maybe something like Arduino-powered controllers and feedback (display,
LEDs).
If you want to save yourself time and hassle buy a
prebuilt manufactured
solution.
Do you mean a prebuilt audio PC of some sort, or did you just mean a
normal
off the shelf workstation synth keyboard?
bjb