Re: [LAU] [Hardware] Small linux box / sampler?

Jano wrote:
> Hello everyone in this my first message, hope you can give me some advice in
> this semi-OT question.
>
> I have a clavinova keyboard which sounds are growing tiresome on me. I have
> often used my laptop with ubuntu studio and a regular midi-to-usb cable to use
> qsynth with soundfonts from my collection grown over the years. This works
> quite well, but since this laptop is not always there, and tinkering with
> cables is always a bit of a chore, I'm thinking of some more definitive
> solution.
>
> One possibility is to have a (preferably cheap) silent small linux box always
> on the keyboard. I guess that after the initial setup it should work as fine
> as the laptop (although I intend not to have a monitor there, so the aspect of
> presets should receive a bit more thinking). One candidate could be this one,
> or something along these lines. I should think it would be powerful enough? I'm
> not really sure about the CPU demands of qsynth.
>
> http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7_Ubuntu_PC.html
>
> Another possibility is some basic stand-alone sampler. I confess not to know
> the current hardware that could serve for this, I've always been a PC man. I'd
> prefer one capable of using soundfonts, or at least some format to which sf
> can be converted, since I'm quite used to my collection.
>
> And of course any other option I haven't think of.
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments,
>
>
You could have a look at the motherboards and cases here:

http://www.mini-itx.com/

If you know a bit of programming, you might be able to hack this case:

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#m200-lcd

to let you choose presets on the built in LCD / keypad.

andy

andy

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Received on Tue Sep 2 08:15:01 2008