Comments on: Making music with the Eee PC

By: sham wow

sham wow — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:44:57 +0000

Hope some DAW lovers catch this… Am using a stock acer ascpire d250 and have managed this:
-6 polyphonic midi synths with 2-3 instances of each.
-12 percussion samples @1-2mb each
-6 guitar samples @500k-1.5mb each
-EQ on each channel
-flanger/wah on each guitar channel
-ozone on master channel
NO cracklin’s going on through out the entire 4.5 minute mixdown

Software/hardware used?:
-SonicFoundry ACID 4.0e
-Audacity 1.3.8
-izotope ozone 4
-a1ctl v0.4 (for resizing screen 1024×768)
-optional Asio4all 2.x for realtime recording
-Alesis io\2 soundcard/input
This all works.. and should really make you smile when you see what you can do with these little computers. Toss in one of the new Akai lpk25 mini midi keyboard and you’re gonna make heads turn!

By: Kant Predict

Kant Predict — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:56:54 +0000

I saw that last comment months ago and it’s been gnawing at me for ages. I’m going to go ahead and make myself a keytar with the guts of an EEE PC 900, a Carillon Control 49 and possibly some portable speakers to make it more truly portable.
With an eeepc 900 +touchscreen in the case, it’ll be more like a Roland V-Synth in terms of sound potential because I have Reason installed (although not as powerful)!
Big ambitions, but I’ve got plenty of time.

By: Kevin Luechtefeld

Kevin Luechtefeld — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:32:08 +0000

I followed his instructions for installation and it didn’t work. I have advanced mode enabled and maybe that had something to do with it. But anyway, I’m restoring from backup. Too much for my tiny brain to comprehend. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

By: miketron5k

miketron5k — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:17:24 +0000

anyone able to get ableton live working well on it

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:15:17 +0000

it works fine on both linux and windows

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:38:59 +0000

How does Audacity do on the Eee?

has anyone tried it under winxp?

By: jaromil

jaromil — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:07:10 +0000

Not only for audio, also audio/video works great! I’ve performed as a VeeJay using fluxus and jack on my Eeepc-701, with a great result on high resolution projectors via external VGA, performing a FFT analysis of sound and 3d rendering of polygons all real-time, believe it or not :) to reach low-latency with jack the eeepc sound card needs to be opened with the following settings: jackd -p128 -dalsa -r44100 -p2048 -n4

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:30:43 +0000

i have my eepc setup btw 2 turntables with a standard keyboard mixer and midi keyboard along with a usb 7.2 sou round sound hub thx to my bud at raves unlimited

By: sarsface

sarsface — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:41:49 +0000

I personally use my EeePC for recording and live MIDI processing/monitoring, and any more exposure to it’s capabilities is great. One thing I would like to see is some sort of serial MIDI controller built into the case.