[linux-audio-user] Delta 66/new mobo question

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:00:22PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:41:45PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >  Many thanks to all who responded to my orginal query. I just purchased 
> > a brand new Delta 66 on eBay, for a very good price, with cables and 
> > breakout box included. I'm looking forward to finally having some more 
> > professional recording capability here.
> >  I'm still undecided about the mobo. Is it possible for me to continue 
> > using an 800 MHz machine for recording ? I have 512 MB RAM, which seem 
> > like it should be plenty, and I have a fair amount of free drive space. 
> > Money's tight, so I'll stave off buying the mobo if my current system 
> > will do for small-scale multitracking. Any & all advice will of course 
> > be galactically appreciated !
> 
> Before I got my athlon box back in January I had my delta66 in a PII 400
> system w/768M RAM and was able to do live recording/mixes with ecasound 
> playing 4 tracks from disk and recording a new track live. I wasn't doing 
> much effect processing, just panning and amplitude controlled by ecasound
> control oscillators. If I remember correctly I was running jack at -p256
> and -n2. Latency was almost noticeable, but bearable.
> 
> -Eric Rz.

Since Mark mentioned the 2 disk approach, I wanted to mention that both
my old PII system and my newer athlon system had separate system and
audio drives. The old box got >20MB/s in hdparm -t tests. The new box
gets >45MB/s.

-Eric Rz.