<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Niels Mayer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nielsmayer@gmail.com" target="_blank">nielsmayer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
as an alternative to the rme route, you can go the low-cost route I suggested, and buy a used magma cardbus-to-pci box, and stick a few used solid/reliable pci cards in it, e.g. M-Audio Delta 66. I haven't tried this, so if you do, please let us know how it works out.<div>
<br></div></blockquote><div>Yes, I read that thread. However, I usually travel with a few acoustic instruments as well and I have to very careful about weight and size (airports and security checks...). The magma isn't big but it's bigger than the RME break out box. Actually, I share some of your concerns WRT USB for pro audio (Firwire has wrked fine for me at least under OSX) and I'm hoping to get better performance from the RME Cardbus than what I've been able to achieve from USB interfaces.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div><div>W/r/t 64 bit flash: <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html" target="_blank">http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html</a></div>
<div>I'm not having any problems running the few 32-bit only apps on this 64 bit system. Even bad-behaved apps like skype. as long as the system has 32 bit and 64 bit libs (by default, only 64 bit for most libs) you should be good to go. When running a 32 bit app on a 64 bit system, if an error about a missing lib is emitted, do 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/missinglib.so' to find out what package you need to manually install in order to get that missing 32 bit lib. Install, run again until it stops emitting errors. Of course you can also use ldd(1) to achieve the same goals.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div>Actually, the only piece of software I haven't gotten to work at all under 64-bit is Chuck. It's my feeling that some software (such as flash) has been less stable for me under 64-bit than what it was under 32-bit, but this is more of a feeling.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div><div>Therefore, you can probably run 32 bit 'pd' on a 64 bit F12 system, w/ all 32 bit libs resolved.</div>
<div><br></div><div>i'm running stock f12 x86_64 w/o a realtime kernel and it's ok for music. Of course, I have a Phenom II 965 (3.4 G quad core_, 1333Mhz 4G 1333Mhz DDR3 Ram on ASUS_M4A78T-E, 32M cache on my 500G RAID1 drives, etc (nothing special just a recently built $700 desktop box). If i want to raise my powerbills I can even overclock it to 4G (but then it gets loud and uses lots of power).</div>
<div><br></div><div>A core-i7 laptop would be good for music: </div><div><a href="http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/beats/envy_15.html" target="_blank">http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/beats/envy_15.html</a> hopefully they won't overheat</div>
<div>while going full-bore during a performance. The SSD is probably helpful, for live performance. I wonder if laptop DJ's at clubs have ever had their hard drives fail or mistrack due to bass vibration?</div><div><br>
</div><div>Of course, for doing live performance where one doesn't actually care about it being a laptop, just portable, one might be better off getting a 19" EIA rack flightcase w/ shockmounts and a rackmount comp case, fill it w/ a standard Mobo and processor like the $700 job I just built, and one of those rackmount slideout-drawer keyboard/displays like they have in server cages at colocation facilities. Plus it would just look very kraftwerk-like compared to a slick-looking, overpriced, underperforming laptop.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div>I used to have a setup similar to the one you are describing but I would never tour with it today. Never.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for all the helpful tips!</div><div><br></div>
<div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>/h</div></div>