Ignacio Lois wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a sound installation that is being made in pd alone. It's going to be running in 8 different rooms (8 output channels) for twelve hours a day, for at least a year. The budget allows for a reasonably powerful computer devoted just to this (most likely a Mac). I never did anything this big so I'm concerned about the minimum processor/memory requirements. Bear in mind that it's going to be mostly oscillators, audio files and MIDI. No input signal processing, no screens.

Any thoughts/caveats?

no idea, but i have been running installations with 16 in/out channels on a Pentium2-400MHz machine running Debian/potato in 1999 (the main task of the machine was spatialization though)

for 8 output channels only i would use an eeePC if it had any proper expansion slots.

seriously: the i/o should not create any noticeable problems on a recent hardware. the requirements needed for your patch are mainly depending on your patch (it's always simple to eat all ressources)

fgmasdr IOhannes