[linux-audio-user] Newcomer to the list

[Jesse Chappell]

Daniel James wrote on Tue, 22-Jul-2003:

 > > Sweep has a great interface, but it still has one significant
 > > downside: all the audio is loaded into memory.  This prevents
 > > the effective editing of large soundfiles or sessions unless you
 > > have a ton of memory (or it will swap all over you).
 > 
 > I wouldn't regard this as a downside - it's just a consequence of the 
 > in-RAM design. Sweep and Audacity (which is a hard disk recorder) 
 > complement each other very well.
 > 
 > You wouldn't use Audacity for real-time scratching effects, or 
 > scrubbing through a file to find an edit point by ear. You wouldn't 
 > use Sweep for recording four channels of 32-bit float audio for half 
 > an hour or longer. But I've done these things with the other program, 
 > with great sucess.
 > 
 > A killer feature of free software is that you don't have to choose a 
 > single proprietary 'solution', which will usually be a design 
 > compromise - you get to use both Sweep and Audacity, and many other 
 > programs, depending on what you need at that moment. 
 
This is a good point, I didn't really mean it as a deficiency, just
a usage caveat.

If Conrad does update it to stream from disk, he might
consider it an option in addition to the current practice (so no usage advantages
are compromised).

jlc