-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 peter wrote: | On Friday 01 February 2008 5:58 am, Rick Norman wrote: |> Honestly, I tend to use it for a bit of everything: gaming, recording, |> development... | | Yeah, I'm in the same boat...with a few other "networking hobbies" thrown in | as well. I don't want to have to carry around more than one laptop, so if I | can make my existing hardware work as good as possible then that's what I'm | hoping for.
Laptops are a bad choice for a gaming rig or a DAW. The price performance is not there. A very capable AMD64 machine can be had for under $500, less if you get no OS. The soundblaster Audigy line supports low latency if you don't need a lot of inputs I picked up the DAW used, upgraded the CPU and Memory (I had a 4400+ X2 lying around). In all the sound card alone cost 6 times more than the rest of the system. |> At the very least, I have managed to get some audio into Ardour, so that's |> a positive start! :-) | | I tried Ardour on the 64studio live CD and couldn't make it do anything...I | have a pretty steep learning curve ahead :) | I have been using Ardour for years and there is still a ton that I need to learn. I suspect that there is no finish line for us :) The Rosegarden book is not a bad start to Linux audio. It is a tad out of date (Rosegarden has change a lot), but it still gives you a solid base from which to grow. You can borrow my copy if you are interested. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHpNeUwRXgH3rKGfMRArngAJ9gjvEiojDMm/4I4V0p5juEke59AQCfQVXo RZ0OOuetZG6uhjocVQvbchU= =gikC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
