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Re: ubuntu based rig



these guys at trinity audio group are selling an atom based netbook
running transmission 3.0 plus energy XT + ArdourXchange. also some
plugin, samples, etc ... libraries onboard. around 500$-600$.

http://www.trinityaudiogroup.com/





2009/7/1, van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk>:
> michael noble wrote:
>> I've tried ubuntustudio, 64studio, puredyne, studiotogo, angnula,
>> Fedora/CCRMA. There are other promising distros emerging to tempt me (or
>> meta-distros like Gentoo pro audio overlay) but I now use openSUSE as my
>> primary studio platform. I have three machines running this way, each
>> with multiple instances of sooperlooper as needed, along with various
>> other applications. I'm a little snowed under at work at moment, but if
>> I can offer any tips I'll be happy to. Weekends are always better.  And
>> when I get around to updating my website I'll be putting more details of
>> my setup up there.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Michael N
>
>
> Interesting news.
> With 14+ years on Linux, I tried using it for audio long ago, and have
> since occationally tried a few things, only to quickly retract again.
> I fairly often dive into the soundonsound.com Linux forum to see what's
> happening, and get the impression people are still having the well-known
> issue that some audio application dies, sometime ending up as a zombi
> process which can't easily be cleared (wait it out or reboot).
> This app death often takes jack, the audio routing protocol, down, after
> which jack doesn't restart as intended, but has to restarted from the
> command line.
>
> It's true that some VST things can be run through the wine or crossover
> windows app emulators, but it's my impression it can be a hit and miss,
> and require some time for editing profiles to make the integration work.
>
> Alsa, the basic audio stuff is often said to require some setup, and is
> reputed to have a slowish development. Other audio subsystems exists.
>
> To be fair to Linux as an audio platform, I'm reverse biased and don't
> follow it close enough, so take my comments with a grain of salt..
>
> Some useful ressources:
> http://www.linuxaudio.org/
> http://www.linuxaudio.org/resources
>
> For supported (semi)pro audio hardware, I used to check something akin
> to linuxaudiodevices.something, but can't find or remember it anylonger.
>
> --
> rgds,
> van Sinn
>
>


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