[sdiy] PC synth

[ASSI]

On Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 00:22, anthony wrote:
> Anybody have any experience doing something like this? What would be
> the best software to use and what would be the best install of Linux
> or FreeBSD or whatever so that I didn't have to run X Windows.

There's a dedicated distribution for musicians from CCRMA and another 
one called AGNULA or something like that.

> Linux runs great on slow machines until you try to run X...

I've been running X on a 486/66 (Linux 0.98h) and it worked great.  
Avoid KDE3 and GNOME on these machines and use a window manager with no 
spiffy effects and without the many background daemons (like old trusty 
fvwm).  Put in all the memory you can get hold of (at least 128MB) 

> The faster machine (AMD K6II 400 MHz) is my Windows 98 machine. I
> tried running Cubase on this thing and it was a joke. But I hadn't
> found MiniHost at that time or ASIO4All. So I could try that.

I can recommend Minihost and SAVIhost.  ASIO4all does not work well with 
some Creative Soundcards, but there should be other ASIO drivers for 
these.  Avoid the ASIO drivers that come with Cubase like the plague - 
my poor old notebook would always crash a few minutes into a session as 
long as these were installed (even though deactivated already).

> But I 
> was wondering about some other kind of PC synth - like CSound or
> something. Ideas?

Get one of the "musical" Linux distros.  They have a patched Wine 
version that is actually able to run some VST (I've never got the 
version that comes with one of the desktop distributions to cooperate) 
and a lot of the programs that you might want t try, all ready for 
installation.


Achim.
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