Indamixx is an unpleasantly-named netbook dedicated to making music–and to keeping a nice sub-$500 price tag. Create Digital Music explains:
…a whole computer, pre-loaded with a bunch of music software. It may not be as powerful as a modern laptop, but it’s also in a cute, smaller form factor you can keep everywhere in case inspiration strikes, or balance on the corner of your Steinway grand
It’s a 1.6GHz Atom-based Sylvania netbook with the standard specs running Transmission, a linux distro packed with free and open-source music stuff, including thousands of samples and the ability to host Windows VST plugins.
Indamixx Laptop is First Pre-Configured Music Netbook, Running Linux, $499 {CDM]
Hm. Not that interested in the box, but I *am* interested to see more serious music tools becoming available on Linux. That’s one category that has kept me from committing fully to Linux for my home machines.
If I can get something equivalent to Sonar running on top of Linux — with enough performance to handle 16-track live field recording and then doing mix/production on those tracks — I’m definitely interested.
Do you know about ardour:
http://ardour.org/
??
Multiple audio outputs? Otherwise why?
Looking at that start up, it’s just a mod of UbuntuStudio. Take a look there for an idea of what it’s running.
This is, quite simply, a piece of shit.
Live CD link to the distro: http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/trinity/trinity-live_master_i386.iso
(via http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/01/08/ces-free-transmission-audio-distro-running-on-umpc-trinity-or-your-pc/)
When it can run 32 high polyphony instruments in realtime with effects and no latency at 96K, 32bit, then we’ll talk.
#3 exactly my first thought…
Though any really dedicated laptop musician would want an external audio interface anyways. Laptops are terribly noisy in there and create all sorts of interference.
But still, basically this just a linux laptop with a bunch of all ready free audio software?
I don’t get it.