xandcg wrote:

²as Romy already said on this forum, he is a developer and certainly he know how to proper build a DAW.

Romy the Cat wrote:

xandcg wrote: ²as Romy already said on this forum, he is a developer and certainly he know how to proper build a DAW. Hm, I do not think I ever said it ether. As a software engineer I have for sure expertise but: I am absolutely ignorant in computer hardware and I did nothing serious in my professional life with sound processing. So under no circumstances I would feel that I have any advantages over anybody else in construction of DAW. In fact when I did it I was shooting absolutely blind and I have make any claims how performance of my DAW relates to performants any other DAWs out there. So, please, let be sane about it.

xandcg wrote:

It has some many variables involved what make in practice very "system dependent". A CD transport follow (more or less) a constant design, while each PC can have so many differences between each other it is impossible to make a statement. At the (normal) PC side we have several parts¹: motherboard (with several different parts in it), fans, ssd/hdd, PSU, processor, memory (I use RDIMM only), etc. all of them can contribute for the result, specially with noise, and none of then was designed with audio in mind. Well, there are the audio cards but everyday day people use more and more USB DACs. IMHO, the only way to avail it with (more or less) parity between them would be using a proper built DAW² or a commercially available DAW. Something like Aurender N10 should be interesting to add in the mix, because it has a FPBA and seem quite well made. ¹not to say OS, files system, BIOS/UEFI, drivers... ²as Romy already said on this forum, he is a developer and certainly he know how to proper build a DAW.

xandcg wrote:

There is a difference between something that sound bad (faulty) and something I do not like (taste) - what "it is not my cup of tea" means. Since you previously said it is not good I assumed you found out it is a faulty product, but apparently you think it is not, it more like a taste thing. So, may you elaborate a bit more about what characteristics you did not like on Aurender sound?

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: Generic Digital [Generic Digital]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]   Subdevices: 1/1   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

xandcg wrote:

You can run RuneAudio on anything Linux. You would just basically need to get the config files and put it on the right place. To run the nice Rune interface, what basically is a php website, you would just need to install some very light  webserver like httpd + php, and put the files on the right place. Easy but one would need to have some patience... I will eventually do it, maybe. NetBSD is not Linux, it is a FreeBSD fork aiming embedded devices specifically. It does not have only minor tweaks, like the usual Linux distros, it is a proper OS redesign for that objective, however still compatible with FreeBSD. You should use OSS for audio in there.

xandcg wrote:

EDIT: you can use that board with the SOtM card in a thin chassis if you prefer. You would just need to grab a chassis which support riser cards, like this one, and a riser card.