[linux-audio-user] how much ram?

Atte André Jensen atte at ballbreaker.dk
Fri Jul 25 15:00:01 EDT 2003


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:01:50 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <mknecht at controlnet.com> wrote:

> 256MB will be pleanty for audio recording, but if you're going to do
> any soft synth work with things like sound fonts, you'll want and
> probably use the 512MB.

You mean assuming I use large soundfonts, right? I'm pretty sure I
couldn't fill up 256MB with samples. That would be my whole sample
library... Well, that might change of course... Hmmm. Right now i would
say that if large soundfonts are my only problem, I'm going for the
smaller machine.

Aren't there any software outthere that works like GigaSampler, that is
a softsampler that can play directly from HD?

BTW: I also asked this in my local LUG and one of the posters was
shocked, and said that he had never sat behind a machine with more than
256 MB RAM. Is the "don't go with less than 512MB, or you'll be sooo
sorry"-speach only for windows users or is there some truth in it for us
linux users also?

-- 
peace, love & harmony
Atte



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