On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, David McClanahan wrote:
> Where to start? I have a Dell 7000 laptop and I'm wondering if it can be a > music synthesizer(something like a Minimoog). If not, why not? Of course. The major contenders are linuxsampler, fluidsynth, and zynaddsubfx. Are you trying to build your own dedicated synthesizer on top of linux? Like the Korg OASYS? > 1. Implement a synth on a hard real time platform. RTAI or RTLinux. Such a > system would boot up as a dedicated synth aka cut out stuff unnecessary for > other than sound control/production I would suggest using something like Debian with an RT kernel. A bare-bones Debian install has a small footprint, and there are several RT kernels avail. for Debian. It's also easy to add/remove packages without crippling the system. I've heard good things about ArchLinux, too... WRT it's ability to configure the distro to your needs. > 2. Characteristics of a synth could be set while in a normal Linux > environment. Are you wanting X11, or not? That's really the biggest question. If you /do/ want X11... then I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, here. FYI, with some synths (esp. linuxsampler), you can run the synth in a headless (no monitor) environment and control it over ethernet with the OSC protocol. -gabriel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
