Turn your Netbook into a Moog / ARP Clone for FREE!
I have been experimenting further with my Acer Aspire One Netbook to uncover its music making potential and have struck gold!
To turn your Netbook into a Mini Moog / ARP 2600 clone head on over to:
http://glenstegner.com/softsynths.html
and download either or both of these wonderful free soft synths. The real beauty of these synths is that they are lightweight by todays standards and can be run standalone.
With the software downloaded and extracted all you need to do is set up your ASIO device (ASIO4ALL seems to work pretty well in this instance) and MIDI settings. I personally have tested this with my Novation X-Station and can report latency free playing with the CPU meter maxing at around 20% and averages at around 9-13%.
Out of the two instruments the MiniMogueVA works slightly better with the limitations of the Netbook screen resolution. To get the most out of it you should turn off the on screen keyboard so that you can see all of the parameters.
Above is a screen grab from my Netbook running Windows 7 and MiniMogueVA.
ENJOY!