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Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the Receptor for Mobius



You're right, it's more expensive than I thought.  I have a lot of
computer parts "lieing around" (I teach computer programming) so I was
taking a few things for granted.

Here's what I was considering getting from newegg.com:
Norco Technologies Inc. RPC-800 Black Steel 4U Rackmount Case - Retail
Model #: RPC-800  $69.99
COOLER MASTER SAF-S12-E1 120 x 120 x 25mm SuperFlo Cooling Fan - Retail
Model #: SAF-S12-E1 $9.99               $19.98
VANTEC VDK-120 Fan Vibration Dampener Kit - Retail
Model #: VDK-120$3.99           
VANTEC SF6025L 60mm 2 Ball Case Cooling Fan - Retail
Model #: SF6025L$6.55   
ASUS P4P800-E DELUXE Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Model #: P4P800-E DELUXE$115.50
ASUS A7000-X/T/32 Radeon 7000 32MB DDR AGP 2X/4X Video Card - Retail
Model #: A7000-X/T/32$27.00
SYBA PCI USB 2.0 4+1 shared port controller card Model SD-VIA-5U - Retail
Model #: SD-VIA-5U$6.10                 
Update  SeaSonic SUPER SILENCER-300W ATX12V 300W Power Supply - Retail
Model #: SUPER SILENCER-300W$46.00              
Subtotal:       $306.46

I already have the rest of the parts I'd need, but if you were
starting from scratch, you'd have to figure about $200 for a processor
(that's what I paid for my 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 "Prescott"),
and another $200 for 2Gb of memory. There are a lot of good deals on
hard drives, but we could probably find two 100Gb drives for another
$200. Add a good soundcard with midi like the Audiophile 24/96 for
$100

Windows XP (OEM) can be had for $45.  I just bought a copy last
weekend to update my Mom's computer, in fact

So that's over $1000, quite a bit more than half of the receptor's
$1400. Add a touchscreen and we are about even.  I'm still thinking
about it though,

On 10/14/05, Kelly Coyle <kellycoyle@charter.net> wrote:
> I looked into it, and I couldn't make the math work out -- everything
> ended up being about the same as the Receptor. I don't know much
> about building systems, but there's the A/D conversion, the ins and
> outs, the MIDI, and so forth, that the Receptor has built in, along
> with the host program (not such a big deal). If something like what
> you describe was available, or if I knew _exactly_ what to buy and
> what to do when I bought it, I'd add it to the rack in a heartbeat.
>
> Receptor is supposedly super-stable, too. XP seems kinda kludgy for a
> dedicated music system, whereas MUSE has adapted Linux. Although
> their code is GPLed, so it would be there to use.
>
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Art Simon wrote:
>
> > For some reason, I've been thinking about this a lot. I never work
> > outside of the studio, but I enjoy building computers. It wouldn't be
> > that hard or expensive to build a rackmount computer to run Mobius, in
> > fact it would probably be half the price of the Receptor. And there
> > are new, small TFT touchscreen computer monitors coming on the market
> > aimed at people who are building PC based car audio systems:
> >
> > http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?
> > sku=90146946&SearchEngine=Froogle&SearchTerm=90146946&Type=PE&Category
> > =Elec&Gad=0&dcaid=17379
> >
> > If you were to take such a computer on a gig, you might be able to do
> > everything with just the touchscreen so you wouldn't need to pack a
> > keyboard, mouse, monitor etc.
> >
> > It would be really cool if there was a rackmount case that came with a
> > small touchscreen monitor, or at least a place to mount one, but I
> > couldn't find one.
> >
> > Has anyone else built or thought about building something similar? The
> > first issue of "Virtual Instruments" magazine had a good article on
> > building a rackmount music computer, but it didn't discuss
> > touchscreens.
> > --
> > Art Simon
> > simart@null.net
> > http://art.simon.tripod.com
> > http://artsimon.iuma.com
> >
>
>


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