Comments on: Asus Eee PC Gets SDK; Anyone Using Eee for Music?

By: Req

Req — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:20:15 +0000

I want it to get a new toy to hack :-)
http://www.eeehacks.com

By: Asus Eee As Cheap, Tiny Music PC: Guitar Rig 3, Linux Tips | AXON

Asus Eee As Cheap, Tiny Music PC: Guitar Rig 3, Linux Tips | AXON — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:08:40 +0000

[...] The Asus Eee PC is unlikely to be your first choice of laptops for music. But it’s small, it’s cute, and it’s ridiculously cheap. Some CDM-reading computer enthusiasts are biting, as we found out in March when we asked you if you had turned the Eee PC into a music box. [...]

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By: Didit

Didit — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:46:41 +0000

hry, for all the glitches issues, why not recompile the kernel and add the real time kernel patch.. Im stil working on it though..

By: Math You

Math You — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:48:19 +0000

Hi, I am running Renoise on my eee with TinyXP installed. TinyXP is a stripped down version of XP that you can find on torrent sites. I upgraded the video driver to handle a higher screen resolution (ie: 1024×768), as detailed here.

Works without a hitch, I even hook a MIDI UNO to it, and it syncs like a charm. Runs dblue glitch, as well as many other VSTs. So stable I gig with it. I haven’t tried Reason on it, but I assume it would work great also. I will have to try this sucker with Rebirth also, that’s a great idea…

By: Jay Vaughan

Jay Vaughan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:57:21 +0000

I’m running a regular combination of ZynAddSubFX, amSynth, SEQ24, and Puredata on my EEEPC .. and it really, really rocks.

One thing: I built my own kernel (switched to advanced-menu mode too) with all the RealTime stuff enabled, set up ZynAddSubFX and amSynth to enable realtime, etc. This was essential - without it, you get stutter city.

Its not the *fastest* and most voice-friendly machine (still loving my MacBook Pro for that), but it sure is nice to be able to whip out at least a 4 track recording on the EEEPC here and there. Another big positive: my MIDI interface Just Plain Worked (Emagic MT-4) without any configuration/driver hassle.

Follow the wiki guide on eeeuser.com to enable realtime/build your own realtime kernel (or wait for someone to add EEEPC support to something like UbuntuStudio) and away you go .. easy.

By: Dr. Funk

Dr. Funk — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:47:06 +0000

@ Matthias

My dad bought one the other day (I’m from Germany too) and I’ve spend extensive time with a maxed-out EEE over easter… the current version is a nice toy but the screen size and resolution really get annoying after a couple of minutes. plus the small touchpad is horrible to use (especially the button!!!).

as I posted above, I’ll wait for the EEE 900 with 8.9″ screen and higher resolution. that update should fix all the problems I found with the first version and might make a great little music and media machine to go…

By: sef

sef — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:35:55 +0000

Neat subnotebook!!! I’m seriously considering getting one now that I see all this. Anyone have any experience installing XP on these devices and using famitracker? I’m most interested in getting one of these for having mobile famitracker to go along with my powerbook w/ ableton.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:33:43 +0000

@Jason: hey, I like to see my command line with as man, erm, columns as possible … ;)

By: Matthias

Matthias — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:30:13 +0000

Still haven’t got mine, EEE-PCs are hard to get here in Germany. I guess I’ll just wait for the upcoming 900. Yet I’m very interested in using the EEE-PC for music, so thanks for all the useful comments.