Daniel James wrote on Tue, 22-Jul-2003: > > 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. This is a good point, I didn't really mean it as a deficiency, just a usage caveat. If Conrad does update it to stream from disk, he might consider it an option in addition to the current practice (so no usage advantages are compromised). jlc
