16 Nov
2011
16 Nov
'11
1:29 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:12:06PM -1000, david wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
I should note, IIRC mine isn't dual-core, but it lied and said it was, it using some
weird hyperthreading thing. It crashed the Ingo RT kernel, so I turned it off in the BIOS.
It's a single-core machine, and shows up as a single-core machine, and all is well.
-ken
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -1000, david
wrote:
Thanks, Ken, thought it was you. The newer netbooks (my wife's is about
6 months old) runs a dual-core, 1.6GHz Atom.
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
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. 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.