On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:48:00AM +0100, Anahata wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:38:08PM -0400, Jesse
Chappell wrote:
Sweep has a great interface, but it still has one
significant
downside: all the audio is loaded into memory. This prevents
the effective editing of large soundfiles or sessions unless you
have a ton of memory (or it will swap all over you).
Is there a significant difference between having (a) the audio editing
program or (b) the memory manager decide what to keep in physical memory
and what to swap to disk?
Yes. Both from a practical p.o.v. and theoretical. Dominic (one of the
authors of audacity) has a paper about it in Computer Music Journal 26(2)
pp 62--76.
Try loading a GB file into sweep and audacity and you will see the
difference immediatly.
- Steve