Dave Philips writes:
Dave, this is interesting, a guy working with children which will get XO laptops asked about turning them into cheap a musical instruments.Is till owe you all some news about the LinuxSampler project, and did I mention that I'm now the proud owner of an XO laptop ? More about all that when we meet again.
It would be cool if you could try to run some tests by running LS on the OLPC (one laptop per child) XO machines trying to optimize parameters like number of voices, ram preload sizes, stream buffer sizes etc.
we can assist you in case questions do arise, just ask here.
From reading the specs it could become a quite capable cheap instrument. The XO uses a flash disk so one can probably reduce the RAM preload sizes as the disk should in theory
seek much faster than normal HDs.
Perhaps OLPC XO (or similar) hardware + LS along with free sample libs could contribute to providing access to high quality digital instruments for poorer populations, it would be a nice achievement.
MIDI master keyboards are getting cheaper too,
this one from m-audio for example, currently costs $129
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/K ... -main.html
According to the informations I've read you can connect those MIDI keyboards to the PC via USB (no extra MIDI interface required therefore no additional expenses) and the hardware is supported by ALSA.
Dave, let us please know about the performance tests (without hurry)
BTW can you compile apps directly on the XO or due to the low specs does one have to compile it on a regular PC using sort of sandbox, cross compile environment etc ?
thanks,
Benno