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

[Len Ovens]

> 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.

Just a bit more memory (1Gig) and I had no problems at all. I did record 
with no effects so I could have low latency for tracking, but my mixdown 
with -p512 included all the effects I wanted such as eq, reverb, 
amp/cabinet emulation for guitar tracks, etc. I did have to set swappiness 
to 10 to make full use of that memory. I agree 512M is a bit small for GUI 
based recording with effects. On the up side, it will give you reason to 
learn about HW tweaks, and making do with less. When I bought my P4, it 
was at the top end of things (for a home system).... not any more :)


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Len Ovens
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