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

Create Digital Music forum members and readers have been using the Asus Eee PC as a programmable, dedicated sound machine and synth. All for the price of the cheapest closed-box, name-brand piece of music gear

Others, like reader Dan Stowell has written a comprehensive tutorial on using SuperCollider, the powerful, free sound synthesis engine. Custom GUIs can also be added using a free Java-based tool. Linux also supports various music tools that lend themselves to a lower-end machine, like music tracker MilkyTracker.

There are also Windows software. From the NI forums, a group of intrepid Guitar Rig 3 users have fired up XP and have a pretty usable, self-contained Guitar Rig computer. The trick is, you do need modded video drivers to make use of 1000×600 resolution, thus accommodating the user interface.

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