[ubuntu-studio-users] ubuntu-studio-users Digest, Vol 163, Issue 4 (Ross Gammon)

[Mike Squires]

I'm posting this because I'm using a USB audio/MIDI interface box with 
20.04 rather than the on-board audio or an add-in card.

I'm currently running 20.04 on a variety of hardware; one of them is a 
Dell T3600.  I added a PreSonus 24C external mic/MIDI box with USB 
connection and it was immediately recognized and is working well with 20.04.

I haven't really tried using the MIDI.  Thanks for posting the link to 
the Ubuntu Studio controls page in the Wiki so I have hope.  My Alesis 
keyboard does appear in the various control apps but I haven't actually 
tried to get it to work.  I did learn that it was a good idea to create 
a temporary user ID so that any changes that are not working can be 
reversed just by logging out and logging back in with the standard 
user.  I did look at the audio HOWTO but the controls in the document 
seem different from those now present in 20.04.

I also plan on adding a MIDI connected Korg Triton Rack synth in the future.

My older workstation is a Supermicro X7DAE dual Xeon with PCI-X, a 
PCI-E, and a PCI slot on the MB.  This PC uses a M-Audio card (model 66? 
seems similar to the 1010) with an external I/O box. This is also 
working well.  I now have a Nikon NS2000 slide scanner on an Adaptec 
SCSI PCI-X controller using Vuescan which is recognized but not tested, yet.

I am working on installing on a Dell T7600.  The T3600 and T7600 are 
Dell's older scientific workstations with older Xeon CPUs, nVida high 
performance video cards, and a lot of options for expansion.  The T7600 
appears to have 1 drive slot using the on-board SATA controller and 4 
slots using the installed SAS/SATA controller.  The T3600 was $170 from 
an eBay surplus dealer and the T7600 was $125 from the local 
university.  Both are very quiet for units that consume as much power as 
they do (T7600 is rated 1300 watts max).

I use this older hardware because it allows me to re-use older 
third-party hardware but obtain performance that seems equal to modern 
low-end hardware.  For example, the X7DAE with its 8 2.5 Ghz Xeon cores 
clocks in the top 10% of results for SciSoft Sandra and the installed 
Radeo 7000 series video card clocks well with Linux graphics 
benchmarks.  I haven't tested the Dell PCs yet.

Mike

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