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
Received on Fri Mar 11 12:15:05 2005
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