[PD-ot] subnotebook/netbook w/ linux 4 electronic music?

[Miller Puckette]

My only suggestion would be to make sure the screen has 768 pixels
of vertical resolution (Hans found an HP model that does - I'm not sure if
others exist or not.)  Otherwise, you can't project at any higher res than
640x480, even if the screen itself claims more.  

I run Fedora (out of the box) with no trouble except I always seem to need
to install a newer ALSA which requires recompiling the kernel; this would
probably be easier in Debian than it is in Fedora.

Finally, I don't know of any perfect solution for more-than-2-channels of
audio I/O via USB.  The M-audio stuff doesn't work yet in duplex (they're
working on that up in ALSA land).  As of a week or 2 ago the latest ALSA
tarballs work with Native Instruments TRAKTOR audio 10 - I've got that going
but haven't yet tested thoroughly.  Since the I/O is "phono" I'm unclear as
to whether it does "RIAA equalization" or not; if so I'll make an
inverse filter for Pd.

I've been using the Stringport for years, which is especially well adapted to
multichannel guitar pickups (8 in, 2 out).

I simply don't know of any other multichannel USB devices that work with
linux!

cheers
Miller


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:51:35PM +0200, Peter Plessas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just my 2 cents
> 
> Michael Zacherl. wrote:
> >Hello,
> >in Weimar and Berlin I noticed quite a few people are using small laptops/netbooks.
> >
> >I'm in the market for a netbook now and want to run linux w/ the usual suspects for experimental electronic music (Pure Data, SC, Ardour, Processing etc.)
> >Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne as the operating system.
> pure:dyne is a great project, but I recommend sticking to plain
> debian, due to its large user base. Afaik, pure:dyne is based on
> Debian anyway.
> >But I'm open to suggestions.
> >
> >What would you recommend for the hardware?
> >Last time I checked some products was in 2009.
> >I suppose battery life has improved, CPUs became a tad faster and linux runs a bit smoother on such a thing.
> >What I really barely can cope with s the glossy screens, but I'm afraid there's no way around it.
> Some brands have alternatives, I think Lenovos do....
> >I'm planning to connect a USB-audio interface, so Firewire is not an issue (which Jack has troubles with, IIRC).
> >Very nice to have would be a built in modem w/ Sim-card slot for mobile data transfer. (Linux supported of course).
> Try to find a laptop for music with a quiet fan.
> 
> PP.
> >
> >What would you suggest?
> >Thanks a lot,  Michael.
> >
> >
> >--
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> >http://soundcloud.com/noiseconformist
> >
> >
> >
> >
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