I have started looking longer and harder at my Acer Aspire One Netbook as a music making device and have been playing with the awesome tracker Renoise.
The user interface is a little bewildering to start with – especially if like me you are used to a traditional sequencer, however with a little patience and a few tutorials things start slotting into place.
I have Renoise running smoothly on my Windows 7 Netbook with the CPU meter rarely going over 10%. This seems like a match made in heaven! Oh and did I mention that it can run happily using the onboard sound card?
I put together this video to demonstrate Ableton Live 7 running on an Acer Aspire One netbook. As you can see from the video the screen is a little cramped but totally workable.
Robot vs Dinosaur 8 looks like its set to bring some well needed electronic madness to round these parts. I’m hoping to make it to this one, being as the boys certainly host a thoroughly enjoyable event.