[LAU] Requirements for huge multitrack editing

[david]

On 11/12/2012 10:19 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:03PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> with no plugins, it would be hard to buy a computer today that could *not*
>> handle editing that session.
>
> True. I've been doing 30-track editing on a P4 system with 512 MB
> memory, no problem at all, Ardour handled that very well. That was
> just editing, mixing with a lot of plugins etc. could be another
> matter.
>
> The *only* case when I've seen it fail was strangely enough when
> recording just a single stereo track on a dual quad-core machine
> with 4GB of memory. Input was coming from firefox playing a Youtube
> video, routed via ALSA's Jack plugin, and recording failed repeatedly
> with 'your hard disk was not fast enough' messages. Yet that same
> system does 80-track sessions without a wink. So I'm pretty sure
> firefox is the one to blame here.

Or Flash, if the track was playing through flash.

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