> 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). I wouldn't regard this as a downside - it's just a consequence of the in-RAM design. Sweep and Audacity (which is a hard disk recorder) complement each other very well. You wouldn't use Audacity for real-time scratching effects, or scrubbing through a file to find an edit point by ear. You wouldn't use Sweep for recording four channels of 32-bit float audio for half an hour or longer. But I've done these things with the other program, with great sucess. A killer feature of free software is that you don't have to choose a single proprietary 'solution', which will usually be a design compromise - you get to use both Sweep and Audacity, and many other programs, depending on what you need at that moment. Cheers Daniel
