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Ken Restivo wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:12:06PM -1000, david wrote:

>> Ken Restivo wrote:

>>> 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.

>> Thanks, Ken, thought it was you. The newer netbooks (my wife's is

>> about 6 months old) runs a dual-core, 1.6GHz Atom.

>

> I should note, IIRC mine isn't dual-core, but it lied and said it

> was, it using some weird hyperthreading thing. It crashed the Ingo RT

> kernel, so I turned it off in the BIOS. It's a single-core machine,

> and shows up as a single-core machine, and all is well.

Yah, the Intel processors offer hyperthreading, which is supposed to

give them the ability to run multiple threads at the same time on a

single-core.
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David

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