[LAU] Requirements for huge multitrack editing

[Asa Marco]

Il giorno Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:18:11 +0100
Jannis Achstetter <jannis_achstetter at web.de> ha scritto:

> Am 12.11.2012 20:17, schrieb Paul Davis:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Asa Marco <aesir.ml at gmail.com
> > <mailto:aesir.ml at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hello list,
> > 
> >     For the first time in my life I need to work with huge
> > recordings, I would like to understand how much memory and
> > computing power is required to handle it on a linux box with Ardour.
> > 
> >     The recording, retrieved from an Alesis hd24, will be about 1
> > hour and a half long, 24 channels, 44.1KHz, 16bit,
> > 
> >     What are the minimal requirements to work with it?
> > 
> >     If I choose sample rate and bit depth to be 48kHz/24bit, will it
> >     require much more resources (other than disk space)?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > you could record that on a 400MHz Pentium II (i.e. a box about 12
> > years old) - you don't need any big hardware to record data like
> > that.
> > 
> > now, when it comes to editing, the question is a bit different, but
> > the *size* of the session in terms of duration is largely
> > irrelevant. 24 tracks is manageable on just about any modern
> > machine. if you edit it so that there end being hundreds or
> > thousands of regions, that could cause issues, but by itself, the
> > data size isn't really significant.
> > 
> > what demands big resources are
> > 
> >    * disk i/o, but 24 tracks should be manageable on any modern disk
> >    * plugins, which use (potentially) lots of CPU while processing
> > audio
> > 
> > without knowing plugins you plan to use, it is hard to predict what
> > you would need in terms of CPU power.
> > 
> > with no plugins, it would be hard to buy a computer today that could
> > *not* handle editing that session.
> 
> All true. 24 channels, 44kHz and 16bit should not cause problems on
> any mid-recent machine. I routinely handle sessions with 24 channels,
> 48kHz, 24bit. Mostly about 6 busses. CPU-usage can then be a bit high
> if you have dynamics and an 8-band-parametric EQ on every channel +
> cpu-intensive plugins (ir_lv2, ...) on the busses.
> Just try it out and you'll see how your CPU can cope with the DSP
> load.
> 
> Of course more RAM is better since you can cache disk-reads but as
> Paul said: any recent machine should be able to get the work done.
> 
> 	Jannis
> 

Ok, that's what i hoped, since i don't expect to make heavy signal
processing. I think I would not have any problem with it.

Thank you all for the kind responses.

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Asa Marco <aesir.ml at gmail.com> 朝