RE: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread Mark
snip Gee all this talk about hardware, what Linux software would best suit this, to what sound card etc.. and of course that would have to fully Linux compatible. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread et
naw I am thinking of giving mandrake Clic a go to see if I want to create a cluster to do this, heck for this bucks we could have a 3 or4 of dual Althons one set mainly for capture, one for file storage and one for processing, but then I probibly have to learn gigabit ethernet setup, as well as

RE: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread logic7
compatible, you should look at the M-Audio audio cards, most of them are fully linux compatible. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of synrat Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] building box for sound

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread et
On Friday 28 February 2003 09:10 am, logic7 wrote: You need none of that. Back in the day, we were recording 24 tracks with a P233mmx (w/scsi drives) or PPC 604e 200 (PowerMac 8600/200). It's like I said, it's all a matter of what you're recording. If you really want to spend $1, then get

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 05:18, et wrote: naw I am thinking of giving mandrake Clic a go to see if I want to create a cluster to do this, heck for this bucks we could have a 3 or4 of dual Althons one set mainly for capture, one for file storage and one for processing, but then I probibly have

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 06:34, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 09:10 am, logic7 wrote: You need none of that. Back in the day, we were recording 24 tracks with a P233mmx (w/scsi drives) or PPC 604e 200 (PowerMac 8600/200). It's like I said, it's all a matter of what you're recording.

[expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread et
just got a very nice deal to build a box (in the next couple of months, quality is much more important than fast delivery) to run a sound recording studio. I would love to hear suggestions. Budget is to be less than $10,000.00 USD delivered, not including (professional) software. or sound

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. Get at least 2gb of ram, the

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread tarvid
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized for sse2 then get pentium4. If

RE: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread logic7
have any questions, please feel free to email me. George - Logic7/Subject28 http://www.geocities.com/labwerx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] building box

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized for sse2 then get pentium4. If

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread Jim C
I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX cluster would be good for. Jim C. et wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread bascule
as an addendum to the below, if you're not that familiar with scsi remember that you won't get the full use of u160 or above bandwith if you use a scsi adapter in an ordinary 33mhz 32 bit pci slot, 32bitsx33mhz=132mb/s of course that's a peak performance not a sustained one but if you can't

Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio

2003-02-27 Thread synrat
lol. no you need sun fire 1 for this :) 90 cpus and 10 terabytes of ram On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jim C wrote: I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX cluster would be good for. Jim C. et wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: I