[linux-audio-user] Re: linux-audio-user digest, Vol 1 #390 - 12 msgs

dan at easley.com dan at easley.com
Thu Apr 10 02:20:00 EDT 2003


> From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> 
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:37:05 -0700, dan at easley.com wrote:
> > I'm a lurker, currently confined to ...200 MHz Pentium II
> > with 32 megs RAM running Win95 and Cakewalk 8.  I'm sure I'll be happy with
> > whatever latency I happen to get when I buy the new computer and put linux on
> it.
> 
> Hmm... not to discourage you but that CPU is not going to be capable of
> running the first version of the mastering tool. Its designed to use
> linear filters, which are *very* expeensive in CPU time.
> 
> Later it will probably be able to (optionally) use normal IIR filters
> which should run OK on slower machines.

No, no - I can't get anything to run properly on that machine, and don't expect
to.  I'd master on my Marantz cassette recorder first!  I look forward to trying
out the system once I'm into 1+GHz proc. speeds.

Rev. Dan Easley
Burnt Possum Poets
Harrisonburg, VA, USA



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