Hi Miller!
On 25.8.2011, at 19:29 , Miller Puckette wrote:
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.
It appears that 1366x768 became a standard resolution on netbooks of that size. So this shouldn't be a big issue anymore. (fingers crossed)
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.
Actually, I just knew Red Hat, before Fedora was released. I mostly used Ubuntu (but only until version 8) so I'm more familiar with that branch of Linux anyway.
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.
well ... doesn't sound that clean. I didn't think of multichannel interfaces connected to that machine rather than getting decent audio quality for stereo output. I talked to Dan Wilcox on the bus from Weimar to Berlin and he mentioned he successfully uses the Roland UA-25 line. For USB I just got my old and noisy ESI U24 box which needs to be replaced anyway. I should get my hands on a MOTU Ultralight at some point maybe that answers some questions. But that's all just in Apple-land so far.
Thanks a lot, Michael.
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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