On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:37, Vincent Touquet wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:19:17PM +0700, Darren Landrum wrote: > >Mark Knecht writes: > > > >> Personally, I get 32 channels today from a single 1394 hard drive > >> which > >> suits my purposes very well. I haven't had the need to push further, > >> but do this it would be interesting to try. > > > >Is that FireWire srive running under Linux? I would be interested in > >knowing, as I'm still designing my studio setup. Thanks! > > Same here :) > What are the specs ? > > regards, > v Hi, The 32 channel number is under Windows ME and XP Home. It's limited to 32 channels as that's a limitation of Pro Tools, not the drives. That test was with 160 DigiDesign plugins at the same time on an Athlon XP 1600+ machine. If you have any reason to want to more about this test, check out http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=001474 As for Linux, I'm still waiting for Alsa to really support my RME hardware. It goes up and down, and right now it's down. For kicks, awhile back I quickly recorded 26 channels in Ardour for 10 minutes with no xruns at 24/44.1K/5mS latency. I didn't need to push the number of record channels any harder than that as 26 is the number of inputs my RME card gives me. I'd never really run a live recording at 5mS in real life, and I didn't try at 1.3 or 2.6 mS, but I think it would probably work. This test was with no plugins. If this doesn't answer specific questions, let me know. Cheers, Mark
