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

Carlo Ascani carlo.ratm at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 09:34:24 UTC 2014


2014-07-22 11:19 GMT+02:00 Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com>:
>
> Is it your plugins that are so heavy, or the
> app the hosts them?
>

I think that 512M of RAM are just too few for Ardour 3.

> 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.
>
>

Correct. I agree 100%.
And if Ardour did not work as a simple recorder (for memory reasons),
ecasound would certainly be my choice.

The only reason I used Ardour 3 to record is *convenience*.
I mean, I am going to mix on the laptop in any case, and having
an ardour session ready with raw takes is better.


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