On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -1000, david wrote:
> Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>> On 10/24/2011 07:23 PM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) wrote:
>>> Does anybody have any idea for a device
>>> (smartphone/tablet/netbook/mini-pc...) that could run jackd and thus be used
>>> as an effects processor or synth module?
>>> I really don't know where to look, but the idea intrigues me. It should
>>> probably be something with a usb port, in order to connect midi stuff or an
>>> external audio card.
>>> Any idea?
>>
>> Hello Alessandro,
>>
>> A netbook is probably your best bet. I'm using a cheap Packard Bell
>> myself as a guitar effect unit or as a synth module. Took some time to
>> set it up but it works remarkably well.
>
> And if you set it up so it's running either no GUI or a very light
> desktop environment, and turn off things like wireless, it should work
> reasonably. I believe the person on the list who uses a netbook for
> synthesizer uses linxusampler loading a 4GB piano aoundfont on a 2GB
> netbook without any problems.
That would have been me, I think. I gigged more or less constantly with this for over 2 years.
Circa 2008 era Asus EEE 1000, 1.2Ghz Atom, with SSD drive, 2GB RAM.
I ran, simultaneously, LinuxSampler, several FluidSynth instances, MonoSynth, Beatrix, several Jack-Rack instances packed with LADSPA stuff, a mixer app, some homegrown daemons in c and pythin, and some other stuff I can't remember right now. Live. All night long. This was of course with an Ingo RT kernel.
Worked great. I'd recommend netbooks for Linux audio live performance.
-ken
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