11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
5:14 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:03:07 -0500, ben racher wrote:
Production Computer... so I've been tooling around
with JACK and Ardour
and MusE (not to be confused with MuSE) and other JACK apps and its all
really cool and exciting. I never got the sound input to even really
work in linux until a couple weeks ago. Yay for the 2.6.8+ kernels. So
here are my thoughts on setting up a workstation, and I don't even know
if this is possible, but that's why I'm mailing you guys. One department
has kindly donated a brand new Dell Poweredge Dual Xeon 2.4 ghz somethin
or other. The rest of our computers are from the university junkyard of
midgrade PowerPC G4s and Pentium 3s. So the Poweredge is our gem
computer out of all the other crappy computers. Is there any way for me
to set up the speedy new poweredge as some kind of audio production
renderfarm, and get the PPCs and the Pentium 3s to connect to it as
production terminals? Cause, although multi-tracking on the G4s and
Pentium 3s is possible, doing extensive work with FX plugins is probably
out of the question.
Dont forget X. You can put the noisey new machine in a cupboard somewhere,
as long as it has audio connections, and control it from one of the P3's
etc. over X11.
I forwarded your message to one of the guys who runs the student radio
station here http://www.surgeradio.co.uk/ its linux and donated hardware
based, and they have a very good setup, so maybe he can offer some advice.
- Steve