On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:00:22PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:41:45PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > Many thanks to all who responded to my orginal query. I just purchased > > a brand new Delta 66 on eBay, for a very good price, with cables and > > breakout box included. I'm looking forward to finally having some more > > professional recording capability here. > > I'm still undecided about the mobo. Is it possible for me to continue > > using an 800 MHz machine for recording ? I have 512 MB RAM, which seem > > like it should be plenty, and I have a fair amount of free drive space. > > Money's tight, so I'll stave off buying the mobo if my current system > > will do for small-scale multitracking. Any & all advice will of course > > be galactically appreciated ! > > Before I got my athlon box back in January I had my delta66 in a PII 400 > system w/768M RAM and was able to do live recording/mixes with ecasound > playing 4 tracks from disk and recording a new track live. I wasn't doing > much effect processing, just panning and amplitude controlled by ecasound > control oscillators. If I remember correctly I was running jack at -p256 > and -n2. Latency was almost noticeable, but bearable. > > -Eric Rz. Since Mark mentioned the 2 disk approach, I wanted to mention that both my old PII system and my newer athlon system had separate system and audio drives. The old box got >20MB/s in hdparm -t tests. The new box gets >45MB/s. -Eric Rz.
