Hey all,
Has anyone used a mobile laptop setup for pd performances? If so could people let me know the spec for such a setup and what audio cards work?
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Has anyone used a mobile laptop setup for pd performances? If so could people let me know the spec for such a setup and what audio cards work?
A standart COMPAQ ARMADA with NT4.0 work very well with good performance (PIII 750;256Mo RAM) I use the poor quality sandart sound card :-( but i'll try soon the VXPocket :-)
I haven't find a midi interface that has driver for NT4.0. If somebody have any idea/ experience about it, please tell me.
I've been using a Toshiba Satelite 2105CDS, running linux. I actually _don't_ recommend this laptop for linux. I have had serious trouble getting the sound hardware (Maestro 2E) to record without distortion, and I have given up trying to resolve this. I do, however, recommend the Swissonic Studio D USB audio interface. Works for linux, and fine for PD. Just make sure you set the number of frags (1 is ok).
hi,
Is that the only problem you've had with the Linux setup on that model, or are there others? Does the Swissonic have MIDI (sorry, I could find out myself) and how's latency?
questions, questions..
nick
"Joseph A. Sarlo" wrote:
I've been using a Toshiba Satelite 2105CDS, running linux. I actually _don't_ recommend this laptop for linux. I have had serious trouble getting the sound hardware (Maestro 2E) to record without distortion, and I have given up trying to resolve this. I do, however, recommend the Swissonic Studio D USB audio interface. Works for linux, and fine for PD. Just make sure you set the number of frags (1 is ok).
-- __________________________ | | Joseph A. Sarlo | Computer Music Dept. | Peabody Conservatory | Johns Hopkins University | | jsarlo@peabody.jhu.edu |__________________________
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, nullpointer wrote:
Hey all,
Has anyone used a mobile laptop setup for pd performances? If so could people let me know the spec for such a setup and what audio cards work?
Thanks Tom ________________________________________________________ C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\REM [Header] C:> C:>PATH=C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;\C:jdk1.2.2\bin ________________________________________________________
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk (all suffixes enabled)
Yes, everything else works fine. I think toshiba is generally pretty good with Linux. There is a whole host of Toshiba laptop specific utilities for linux (APM, special toshiba keys, fan control, etc.) There's also a driver for the winmodem. Getting X to work right took a little effort, but doesn't it always.
The Swissonic doesn't have midi, but my suggestion for that is to use a serial midi device. There's an ALSA driver, but also a great kernel patch that works even better (http://crystal.apana.org.au/~ghansper/MidiAxis.html#MIDIdriver).
Latency is not a problem. I finally got around to actually testing it and I've measured total adc-dac latency with PD in the range of 26-30ms, including the audio buffer. I am also using the Andrew Morton 2.4.1 low-latency kernel patch.
-- __________________________ | | Joseph A. Sarlo | Computer Music Dept. | Peabody Conservatory | Johns Hopkins University | | jsarlo@peabody.jhu.edu |__________________________
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Nick Fells wrote:
hi,
Is that the only problem you've had with the Linux setup on that model, or are there others? Does the Swissonic have MIDI (sorry, I could find out myself) and how's latency?
questions, questions..
nick
"Joseph A. Sarlo" wrote:
I've been using a Toshiba Satelite 2105CDS, running linux. I actually _don't_ recommend this laptop for linux. I have had serious trouble getting the sound hardware (Maestro 2E) to record without distortion, and I have given up trying to resolve this. I do, however, recommend the Swissonic Studio D USB audio interface. Works for linux, and fine for PD. Just make sure you set the number of frags (1 is ok).
-- __________________________ | | Joseph A. Sarlo | Computer Music Dept. | Peabody Conservatory | Johns Hopkins University | | jsarlo@peabody.jhu.edu |__________________________
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, nullpointer wrote:
Hey all,
Has anyone used a mobile laptop setup for pd performances? If so could people let me know the spec for such a setup and what audio cards work?
Thanks Tom ________________________________________________________ C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\REM [Header] C:> C:>PATH=C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;\C:jdk1.2.2\bin ________________________________________________________
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk (all suffixes enabled)
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