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Help on Octal capabilities


From: Alejandro Lopez
Subject: Help on Octal capabilities
Date: Thu Oct 25 10:24:03 2001

Dear David,

I'm very interested in moving my home studio to Octal because the architecture 
of Octal looks really smart and flexible. I'm not familiar with GNU/Linux and I 
would be very grateful if you could confirm a couple of issues. I think that 
this information would be interesting to other users / musicians.

1. Would it be possible to operate Octal from a X terminal connected to the 
computer actually running it? I ask this because would like my studio to be 
portable (I use it to record drums, for example, and the neighbourgs at my flat 
don't like my drum set). I must use a desktop computer because my audio card is 
ISA. But I wouldn't need a monitor or a keyboard if I could operate Octal from 
a laptop connected to the desktop computer, and that would be really great.

2. My current desktop is now a 486/100. It does a really nice job under Windows 
3.1, as it mixes 4 44100 Hz 16 bits tracks in real time using the Quad 
multitracker (Turtle Beach) while running Cakewalk for MIDI sequencing 
simultaneously (!) Now I simply can't upgrade my hardware and I would like to 
know if I could do similar things under Octal. I won't try to use CPU consuming 
machines like reverb or any synth, just play samples and such. I won't even use 
MIDI now, as I plan to use Octal as a tracker (the Commodore Amiga flavour with 
samples stored in RAM). I would like to know if Octal is so modular that I can 
do that. Please note that the graphical environment would not slow down the 486 
as all the graphics would be hopefully generated in the X terminal of the 
laptop, which is a Pentium.

Also, it would be very helpful to know of any GNU/Linux distributions that 
already include Octal as a package ready to use; most of us musicians are far 
from a Unix admin.. :-) I would install one of them in my desktop instead of 
Debian Potato, which is my dist of choice but lacks sound support out of the 
box.

Best regards,


Alejandro López


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