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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -1000, david wrote:

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> 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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