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You can do it but performance/latency may suffer. Try WineASIO. http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org...

If you going to use a Linux distro for the most comparability that would be a Debian base OS. To have the largest and lights OS there are only 3 that come to mind. This would Avlinux, Musix,& Kxstudio, this are all Debian base and Ubuntu comparable. And most of very light on resources making then good contenders for multiple applications. Plus they all have a great application pool for additional software packages. The last one good be OpenSuse it comes with multiple boot options, and simple to use repositories. And it has great tools for installing software. Most of the tools that you will need will be installed by default with this distributions. As for the part of the adobe software just use 10% of you machines for other applications inside windows. If you have a limitation of budget you can start by VR the Windows PC and just purchase what you need. This will save on the amount of licensees you will have to purchase. You can purchase windows 7 pro and ultimate at low value and they will be supported till 2020. you can update with and WSUS offline software and to install other software for use ninite. To monitor you students teach lessons via the PC screen & messages Here are that links to all of the software https://ninite.com/ http://italc.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/dow... https://musixdistro.wordpress.... http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinu... http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org... http://www.linuxveda.com/2014/...

Slashdot questions here: Has anyone on slashdot made an effects processor yet?

I've been toying with the idea of making a RPi based Effects processor. I primarily play guitar but am not going to differentiate between it and any other sound application. I've looked around and found 2 projects, one was "Guitar extended" http://guitarextended.wordpres... Which, I'm afraid, is a bit too "We're going to change guitar forever!" for me. I don't want to make yet another crazy sounding thing that no-one wants to listen to, that requires an insane peddle board to control. After I get some decent DSP reverb, gates etc... going, then I'll worry about foot controllers. The fact of the matter is, in most applications I don't need to mess with effects on the fly. I'd even argue that's a bad idea in general.

My main problem with retail effects is the size. Getting a decent processor usually means it's a double rack space unit. But if you open them up they could have easily fit into a half rack space. I'm guessing this is an appeal to the same part of the brain that likes SUVs. I build my own combo amps, so I'd like to throw in a half rack effects module and maybe something else. But all I've found is the Roland Vf1 which isn't that great, isn't in production anymore and sells for $200+ used. Also, hey I built the amp... why not the processor as well?

I've not really dove into it yet, I dont like to start these projects myself. It's way easier to let someone else make all of the mistakes and solve the problems for me :-) Also, it seems the RPi has audio latency issues like just about every non-firewire based computer out there. You can fix it, but it's a nightmare of driver and hardware tweaking. I've got a guide: http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wik... But that sounds like the typical thing you have to do. That level of complexity is terrifying when you're trying to do a live situation. If you haven't ever played in front of people... God hates live performances... anything that can go wrong, will. I've had retail, $1000+ processors fail live and leave me to just pull the damn plug in the end and go raw.

I've seen some Arduino projects that use a DSP chip and the arduino swaps out code from the chip to change effects... but that sounds insanely error prone to me. I could pull it off, but I would never really trust it.

So if anyone has any experience in this area, or links to articles they've found on the topic, I'd love to see them.

For the Jack impaired: http://lau.linuxaudio.org/jack/

you can run most vst's very nicely in linux http://ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/

Not forgetting: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ for Redhat. Also noone has mentioned the fact the Windows VST's (virtual instruments) can now run in linux with a combination of Wine, jack and Vsthost. http://ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/

A good starting place is to nose around the sites hosted at http://portal.linuxaudio.org/

The linux audio users and linux audio developers lists are vibrant (perhaps overwhelming) and their archives and associated documents and HOWTOs contain more information than you could possibly want.

Personally, I've had very good experiences with:

ecasound (multitrack recording, processing, general all-around fiddling)

ardour (recording and mixing)

rosegarder (midi sequencing and scoring)

JACK (patchbay and tool interfacing)

Before you dump a bunch of dough on hardware synths, have you checked out the quality of software synths? (VSTs for Linux appear to be hit or miss, but the ones for Windows are amazing).