[LAU] A short story: from zero to recording the drums in a budget

[Joel Roth]

Carlo Ascani wrote:
> 2014-07-22 10:23 GMT+02:00 Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>:
> >
> > I've got a similar setup: 512M, Arch + windowmaker,
> > but can't get A3 to run on it in any usable way - it
> > just eats too much memory. Any tricks ??
> >
> 
> Not really, sorry.
> 
> And honestly, the only thing I am able to do with so little ram
> is to record.  No way I can do editing, and plugins neither.

Is it your plugins that are so heavy, or the
app the hosts them?

Just as there are lightweight window managers around, there
are also some lightweight audio processing hosts, such as
Ecasound, which is reasonably convenient to use when managed by
Nama.


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Joel Roth