Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux DAW FX box how to for noobs...New Link...

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux DAW FX box how to for noobs...New Link...
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 22:20:54 EEST


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:26:27 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On this note, I have 25Mhz 486 w/12MB of RAM that has served as my
> firewall/router for 4.5 years. It's soon to be replaced by a shinier,
> newer, faster classic pentium 200MHz w/64MB of RAM. Last night I was
> thinking of how to keep it useful. I came up with the idea of writing
> some script that generates some kind of audio in realtime continuously
> to be streamed over the net. I'm thinking of trying to get it to boot
> over the network from an image on my file server and run in ram ... or
> maybe an NFS or other share.
>
> This should probably go in another thread, but does anyone know what to
> shoot for? How much realtime dsp can a box like this reasonably handle?
> Could it run hermes from a python ECI script with ecasound controllers
> controlling the parameters?

If its a 486 SX it wont have a floating pint unit, so most modern DSP
software is not an option.

- Steve


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