I will even give Bitwig a go on this machine, I have seen reports of it working okay on a c720. It would be worth considering using Rosegarden or MusE for MIDI… or Non-Sequencer (insert suitable MIDI sequencer here)… if you aren’t using audio. Happy to test installing kxstudio packages. The Atom in the c720 is more powerful than that old chip though. Then my next desktop was a 2.4 GHz single core Pentium IV with yep… 1 GB of RAM, it could do audio okay… plugins weren’t a thing in those days. Remembering, years ago I was happily running Cakewalk on a 300Mhz machine with 256 MB of RAM. I have installed Xubuntu using crouton and it seems reasonably snappy…ĢGB is not great but should be viable, even for some audio recording, but maybe not plugins. I have an Acer c720, I picked up cheap for use as a web browser e.t.c., but also terminal machine, remote X and some lightweight duties for maintaining my headless server and media PC’s at home (all gentoo). The big question is, are you using MIDI to drive external synths, or software synths… If it is external, then you should have no problem at all. I disagree with TW… MIDI is not very resource hungry. Ardour and jack will run on the hardware you have listed but obtaining more powerful hardware is highly recommended if you want to record using MIDI hardware. So to be as helpful as I can : I would not describe any MIDI sequencing as simple (unless you just want to click a mouse on an on screen grid… lol) because it requires as low as possible latency when using input devices. Mixcraft, Ableton Live, Cubase, Tractor, Fruity loops or Adobe Audition are not cheap or open source. ![]() If you want to run Mixcraft or instead of Ardour, you would still require more than 2GB of RAM but you may purchase a software product which is more polished than Ardour. ![]() And if you are new to Linux possibly Ubuntu Studio (I personally use Fedora but I would not recommend Fedora to new users.) Something like the The Media Lite listed on : which uses these parts : double the memory and add an ALSA supported usb or PCIE (PCI express) sound card and you will end up with a system which will allow you to do MIDI sequencing at low enough latencies using jack and Ardour. My recommendation is to build a desktop PC suitable for media production. You will probably then save and buy something to improve upon it or give up entirely eventually. I can see the attractiveness of being mobile, however unless you purchase a machine with at least 4GB (I would lean more towards 8GB though,) you are going to be fighting with the machine until you eventually get slightly below average performance out of it for your use case. Especially for MIDI sequencing using jack MIDI if you plan to use an input device such as a usb MIDI keyboard. You would be wise to buy also a usb audio device to go along with the Chromebook (or any mobile computing device you want to manipulate audio on.) A usb audio (or even firewire) device should support low enough latencies to be useful. The on-board audio device of the Chromebook will not support running jack at latencies low enough to be considered practical for professional (or even amateur IMO) use. If you can upgrade the memory on the Chromebook, consider doing that. Lots of memory to disk swapping is not something you want happening on a system which you want to use for low latency MIDI operation. ![]() 20GB.)ĢGB is a very small amount of memory (most new smart phones have that amount of RAM now) and once the memory becomes full, the operating system swaps out memory to disk. The operating system, desktop and a single instance of the Chromium web browser total about 4GB in memory (but I have enough memory to deliberately push most of the operating system and applications into the memory. I have a desktop PC here and I use KDE 4. Hi brianshrader - my thoughts on using Ardour on a Chromebook with 2GB of RAM.ĢGB is enough memory to run a lightweight Linux desktop and maybe one application which is not memory hungry.
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