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Originally Posted by seancostello  It probably wouldn't be that useful for stomp pedals, as I presume that an Atom is much less cost effective than something like the FV-1 or a Blackfin. However, I know that you can compile VST plugins for Linux. Hmmm. |
That's almost always the case - for a stompbox, one other biggie is power consumption. A PC chipset of any kind sucks back the juice. It is true that a netbook takes less power from the wall than a 480L or 224, but a reverb based on something like the AL3201 in a stompbox (which will out-compute the 224) can be designed to take maybe 20mA from a battery using a linear regulator (10mA for the 3201, and about the same for the ADC-DAC), and if you spring for the cost of a switching power supply (all of three or four parts) you can get it down to probably about 7mA from a 9V battery - about 80 hours of use. On the other hand, my Aspire One netbook sucks about two amps out of its battery, and would attempt to drain a 9V stompbox battery in about ten minutes - if you could get the current out of a 9V battery fast enough.