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Since I've got an old mobo/processor lying around, I've decided to build a little Linux box upstairs to network with my windows PC downstairs and have a nice little office machine.
I occurred to me shortly after this realization that I could also use this machine for a little audio work, and what better way to learn to play with linux and audio and emulation etc. etc. than to have a junker?
So here are some videos that have inspired me to give this a try, these desktops are just too pretty:
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Beautiful, huh?
Now my question for you is:
will my old athlon 1800+ with a gig of ram and an ATI X300 and onboard sound handle this(ubuntu+beryl)?
and what is your general advice to me before I begin this quest?
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01/09/08
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deltasleep
01/09/08
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adcBicycle
everamzah will help you... he's the resident linux audio expert.
The one thing holding me back... I don't want to lose audiomulch. (may just end up using a windows emulator I guess).
01/09/08
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crazyshadow
well since you have a gig of ram that pass enought for ubuntu for music
i have a 1.6ghz 512ram 30gb hard disk ati video card or something like that for video card and a soundblaster live value and it work for music creation with the little i work with on linux
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deltasleep
Take a look at the first video with the screwed up link- the guy is running FLstudio.
I thought i'd ask here first: how is the latency going to be effected by using a virtual machine.
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adcBicycle
Using audiomulch as an example, they say: running it with a virtual pc on a mac it is "much slower"... but running it through WINE in linux is a "viable option"...
link Not sure what that means for latency though, but it would likely be affected somewhat.
01/09/08
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notkomitee
This desktop addons need a graphic card with good drivers so 3D as OpenGL is supported in hardware. ATI is not known for having good support but it depends on which card. Nvidia is my choice with much better drivers but for audio I switch off all that eyecandy anyway and even use rather primitive desktop managers like Fluxbox to have more ressources for audio. Be lucky you can switch all the gui, its not possible that way on OSX and Windows. When you are beginner in Linux you might check out a music centered destribution as 64 Studio (which is also available as 32bit edition), Ubuntustudio or Jacklab. I dont use any windows programs anymore...
01/13/08
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owl
I've never properly seen ubuntu before, wow. That second video inspires me just to go to linux. I don't think my old heap of junk would be able to do half of those things though. My family just bought a pretty sweet new computer, but they aren't very tech savvy and wouldn't let me do anything to it : |
01/13/08
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everamzah
oh high. ur pc is fine for ubuntu and audio. the more extras u run (as part of the ubuntu or gnome environments, search daemons, email/calander clients, etc, etc, etc), the fewer resources of course for ur audio work  i s'pose. so i always turn a lot of that stuff off. if u want reliable, glitchless audio u do need to set things up b4 u continue... for ubuntu see:
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i've run a lot of stuff like ardour, jamin, other sequencers, effects and synthesizers (ams, om) on gnome and ubuntu on a 1.6 p4m centrino laptop using that flashy 3d beryl/compiz shit with no glitches and 2ms latency cuz linux is just like that. the only thing is u gotta work a touch sometimes... meh
anywhos, i'm more concerned with the software stuff, so if u have Q's with that maybe i can be of more use
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everamzah
btw i second fluxbox --- i use fluxbox now, but here's a screenie from just recently using gnome and compiz on my ubuntu laptop... audio apps are: seq24, virtual keyboard, specimen, qjackctl, jack_mixer, JAMin, ... link
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