Daniel James wrote: >>You will always get xruns if you are recording to the same drive as >>your OS. > > > Other software seems to manage recording a reasonable number of tracks > with just one disk in total though. > > Surely in an ideal world, the OS would not be performing disk writes > during recording? > Ok then I take it back. You can achieve multi track recording for a few tracks (< 10) with a single IDE. Go for more RAM. But if you want to take advantage of Jack then you will be doing more than 10 tracks pretty quickly. Although I'm not suggesting we all start taking advantage of Jack. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done. Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman
