[LAU] Software for recording digital audio?

Joel Roth joelz at pobox.com
Wed Jun 23 03:32:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:43:22PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> 
> Ecasound _is_ very lightweight.
> 
> According to 'pmap', Ecasound consumes about 19MB on my system
> at startup.
> 
> If simple recording is all you need, Ecasound, or one of the
> other alternatives mentioned is fine.
> 
> If you want Ecasound with some added convenience features,
> I'll put in a mention for Nama.[1]
> 
> Starting up Nama consumes about 55MB of memory 
> in the text-only mode, and 75MB of memory in
> the GUI+text mode.

And ardour2 consumes 160MB of memory at startup.

> Regards,
> 
> Joel
> 
> [1] http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
> 
-- 
Joel Roth


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