i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop is fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum suggested hardware for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive. thanks!
I have pd 0.39.0 running at home on a Pentium MMX 200MHz machine under linux. I run it like "sudo pd -rt" for best performance. I don't try to process video but midi and sound work fine. Any machine will max out eventually if your patches get too big, and anyway, having limited resources is good discipline... Martin
michael gardner wrote:
i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop is fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum suggested hardware for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive.
thanks!
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Hallo, michael gardner hat gesagt: // michael gardner wrote:
i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop is fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum suggested hardware for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive.
Pd is as CPU-intensive as you make it in your patches. It's no problem to run Pd on a Pentium II, in fact, I ran it on lower machines and it also runs on a PDA, however don't expect to run complex DSP calculations on that.
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On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:00 PM, michael gardner wrote:
i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop
is fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another
machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum
suggested hardware for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd
like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but
dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive.
I've done a lot of working using PII 400 machines and you can do quite
a bit with them if you are not doing video processing or heavy audio
synthesis. I've used a Pentium 133 laptop to run a patch that
controlled 20 samples and it worked fine.
.hc
"Information wants to be free." -Stewart Brand
Hi,
as everybody else said, the cpu-load will grow with the complexity of your patches. If you have slow machines < 200 MHz you will probably not be able to do real time audio in 44,1 khz. but you could render audio with 22 khz or even 11khz. That is, if you dont have much graphical objects in your patches. LetŽs say you want to play all the help patches, then I think you should at least go for a Pentium >= 400 MHz. For video and opengl processing you can also start with such a machine, but you will have to reduce the resolution and frame rate. (depends also on the graphic card.
marius.
michael gardner schrieb:
i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop is fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another machine temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum suggested hardware for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd like to just pick up an old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but dont want to waste my time if Pd is CPU-intensive. thanks!
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