Using an Asus Eee, XP and Live for gigs
Using an Asus Eee, XP and Live for gigs
Hi everyone, at the moment my band is using Live 6 on a Macbook to do the beats for our live show, I've been looking at an Eee as a possible replacement cause it's smaller, lighter, cheaper to replace if it gets broken and wouldn't be my main computer, so less stress at live shows.
Has anyone got any thoughts on if this could handle running Live? It'd probably just be playback of up to 5 stereo tracks at a time, with an MPD to trigger stuff. I guess I'd need to get a USB audio card too.
What do people think?
Has anyone got any thoughts on if this could handle running Live? It'd probably just be playback of up to 5 stereo tracks at a time, with an MPD to trigger stuff. I guess I'd need to get a USB audio card too.
What do people think?
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What Husker said.
No effects is the key. If you start adding effects or plugins you're quickly going to run into problems. The processor on the Eee is pretty rubbish by today's standards. It's nowhere near close to a replacement for a Macbook.
I like 'em though - cute little things with more geek-cool than any Mac products. For email, web, they're great.
No effects is the key. If you start adding effects or plugins you're quickly going to run into problems. The processor on the Eee is pretty rubbish by today's standards. It's nowhere near close to a replacement for a Macbook.
I like 'em though - cute little things with more geek-cool than any Mac products. For email, web, they're great.
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how many USB ports do these things have? does it have enough to run a mouse, a soundcard and the external USB drive you might need? the 8Gb HDD is the largest it comes with and i'm not sure that'll leave too much room once you install XP on it... otherwise it looks kinda cool, but i dunno how many tracks/plugins you'd get out of it...
if it was touch screen i'd snap one up and turn it into a dedicated monome/lemur style midi sequencer!
if it was touch screen i'd snap one up and turn it into a dedicated monome/lemur style midi sequencer!
Hp Elitebook 2.8Ghz. Live 7.0.14 & Live 8.1.5, XP Pro. and stuff...
It's got 3 usb ports and a flash card slot. I was thinking I'd put an 8GB flash card in it and use that as my data drive, then use one usb port for a soundcard and one for the mpd. I'd prefer to use a solid state drive and keep it internal but if it wasn't fast enough I'd go for a bus powered usb drive.
I was thinking of stripping XP right down and maybe even seeing if there was a way I could get it to open Live in full-screen mode as soon as it booted up. Should be pretty easy if I remember right from my old PC owning days. I'd just dump finished sessions onto it that I'd done on the mac so no need for any plugins, just audio and midi clock out.
I read somewhere that the processor is going to be upgraded to a Merom in April, I think I'll wait til then. The Presonus Audiobox should be out by then, I think I'll get one of those cause I'm pretty pleased with the build quality of my Firebox.
Anyone else got any thoughts?
I was thinking of stripping XP right down and maybe even seeing if there was a way I could get it to open Live in full-screen mode as soon as it booted up. Should be pretty easy if I remember right from my old PC owning days. I'd just dump finished sessions onto it that I'd done on the mac so no need for any plugins, just audio and midi clock out.
I read somewhere that the processor is going to be upgraded to a Merom in April, I think I'll wait til then. The Presonus Audiobox should be out by then, I think I'll get one of those cause I'm pretty pleased with the build quality of my Firebox.
Anyone else got any thoughts?
Playback should be no problem. I'd have thought the on-board flash would be fast enough to get away with more than 5 tracks.
But current EeePCs use Celeron M CPUs, so you're unlikely to be able to use many effects at all.
Biggest problem is screen res at a paltry 800x480 (or thereabouts), unless you don't mind lugging around another LCD.
Eee's would probably be excellent as a "cheap hardware sequencer" though, if you use something like Seq24.
But current EeePCs use Celeron M CPUs, so you're unlikely to be able to use many effects at all.
Biggest problem is screen res at a paltry 800x480 (or thereabouts), unless you don't mind lugging around another LCD.
Eee's would probably be excellent as a "cheap hardware sequencer" though, if you use something like Seq24.
Some interesting info here including screenshots.
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=9122
Adding a touchscreen could make it interesting for Live and live generally.
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=9122
Adding a touchscreen could make it interesting for Live and live generally.
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