Wel, late in November i intended to write something on using Alpine Linux as basis for an Audio oriented system.
Alpine (currently) means to me: small and not bloated. Ideal to make the best out of old Hardware.
My machines:
1) EEE-PC, Atom 270, 2 cores, 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, USB 1.1
2) HP ProBook 5310m, Intel Celeron, 2 cores, 2.27 GHz 4 GB RAM, USB 2
Interfaces, in addition to the internal sound card.
A&H ZEDi10, USB 2, 4 channels
A&H ZED 10, USB 1.1, 2 channels
Alesis Multimix4 USB, USB 1.1 2 channels, recording only (playback through the USB interface does not work correctly), same USB chip as ZED10.
Software environment
Alpine Linux, 32 bit (both machines, although the HP is IA64)
Archives: edge: main, community, testing
mainly because the software offered outside testing is a bit limited for my ideas of a system with overall small use of resources (windowmaker, xterm, xfe, claws-mail)
ALSO/Jack only, neither pulseaudio nor pipewire, but apulse is there.
hydrogen, vlc, mpg123, vorbis tools, audacity, ardour (7)
What do i want to achieve?
a) live drum machine:
Hydrogen, through internal sound card, into the ZEDi10 (which drives our PA speakers)
general audio, mostly through internal sound card.
b) multitrack recorder:
Goal: i would use the 4 channels of the ZEDi plus the 2 channels of the Alesis, the latter synchronized with the ZEDi by resampling.
playback
Because of some trouble with hydrogen after setting up everything i had to go back and make/keep hydrogen running.
(The EEEPC is set op mostly of curiosity what can be achieved on such old hardware, and as a backup.)