Re: [LAU] need help in san francisco

    helps a ton, thanks!
    Are you using a laptop or a tower? Seems to
me probably a tower, given your specs.
    Are you using any music-specific expansion
cards?

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 14:29 +0200, pshirkey@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> >
> > any body willing to help me out in san francisco?
> > the project is to set up a recording and sequencing
> > system for scratch (semi-pro-quality) recording.
> > i'm an out of work musician but none-the-less
> > willing to pay money.
> >
> > problems include:
> > * determine the right computer to buy
> > for example: buy a tower or a laptop or both? if a
> > tower, what expansion cards to buy?
> > * determine what software to use
> > * determine i/o and other hardware
> > * how to drive a roland X10, other roland digital
> > keyboard?
> > what other external hardware to buy? drum machine?
> > other music instrument hardware? (i like having
> > instrument voices in external hardware so's not to
> > burden the CPU of the computer running recording or
> > sequencing software.)
> > * use existing pro-tools recordings on the new linux
> > system
> >
> > hopefully,
> > jim
> > PS: music store people i've talked to have no clue about
> > linux stuff.
> > i have read reviews and other online info and cannot find
> > what i need: specifics to put a small, basic system
> > together (what CPU speed, RAM, storage... to buy; is there
> > reasonably good quality recording or sound generation or
> > audio playback stuff in expansion card form that works
> > with linux; are there necessary drivers or libraries that
> > are not obvious to someone new to setting up these systems;
> > what are the solutions to problems that typically come
> > with the specific hardware and software components...?).
> >
>
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
>
> You can do amazing things with an eeepc. So in terms of hardware anything
> new will be powerful enough to achieve something useful. I personally use
> a 4 core cpu with 8 GB RAM and that has enough power to do everything I
> throw at it.
>
> You will need to use JACK and depending on the distribution you choose you
> may need to enable third party repos (CCRMA) to get access to all the
> latest and greatest tools. Alot of people speak highly of AVLinux
>
> http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
>
> There is also indamixx: http://indamixx.com
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
>
>
>

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Received on Mon Jun 27 20:15:03 2011