[LAU] Gumstix and jack, softsynths, etc?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
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> >Gah, if only they had an FPU.
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> >http://www.gumstix.com
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> >Is there anything roughly like it with an FPU and enough RAM to run jackd 
> >and fluidsynth?
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> Wasn't that what the Trinity guys were showing off at LAC?
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> http://trinityaudiogroup.com/splash2007.html
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> I wonder how things are there...
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That looks really neat, but it is way overkill for what I'm trying to do-- I doing neither field recording nor X, only running headless softsynths.

What "Fanless Low Power CPU 500 Mhz - 256 RAM" are they using exactly? Is it based on a project board like the gumstix? Obviously that CPU has enough floating-point cohones to run JACK and Ardour.

What I'm looking for is merely a project CPU that has sufficient resources to run JACK and fluidsynth, and maybe some other softsynths like Elven/AZR3 which I use a lot too. If it's open so I can build an expansion board with one or two USB host ports and an audio chip, then I've got a digital synthesizer. Somewhere in a parts drawer around here I have an LCD display just waiting to be used too, so if it has GPIO pins then the thing can have a user interface too.

Anyway, this is the kind of thing that has a "market" of exactly one: me. But seems like all the components necessary to build such a thing are extant. Or are they?

- -ken
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