Il giorno Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:18:11 +0100 Jannis Achstetter <jannis_achstetter@xxxxxx> ha scritto: > Am 12.11.2012 20:17, schrieb Paul Davis: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Asa Marco <aesir.ml@xxxxxxxxx > > <mailto:aesir.ml@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > For the first time in my life I need to work with huge > > recordings, I would like to understand how much memory and > > computing power is required to handle it on a linux box with Ardour. > > > > The recording, retrieved from an Alesis hd24, will be about 1 > > hour and a half long, 24 channels, 44.1KHz, 16bit, > > > > What are the minimal requirements to work with it? > > > > If I choose sample rate and bit depth to be 48kHz/24bit, will it > > require much more resources (other than disk space)? > > > > > > > > you could record that on a 400MHz Pentium II (i.e. a box about 12 > > years old) - you don't need any big hardware to record data like > > that. > > > > now, when it comes to editing, the question is a bit different, but > > the *size* of the session in terms of duration is largely > > irrelevant. 24 tracks is manageable on just about any modern > > machine. if you edit it so that there end being hundreds or > > thousands of regions, that could cause issues, but by itself, the > > data size isn't really significant. > > > > what demands big resources are > > > > * disk i/o, but 24 tracks should be manageable on any modern disk > > * plugins, which use (potentially) lots of CPU while processing > > audio > > > > without knowing plugins you plan to use, it is hard to predict what > > you would need in terms of CPU power. > > > > with no plugins, it would be hard to buy a computer today that could > > *not* handle editing that session. > > All true. 24 channels, 44kHz and 16bit should not cause problems on > any mid-recent machine. I routinely handle sessions with 24 channels, > 48kHz, 24bit. Mostly about 6 busses. CPU-usage can then be a bit high > if you have dynamics and an 8-band-parametric EQ on every channel + > cpu-intensive plugins (ir_lv2, ...) on the busses. > Just try it out and you'll see how your CPU can cope with the DSP > load. > > Of course more RAM is better since you can cache disk-reads but as > Paul said: any recent machine should be able to get the work done. > > Jannis > Ok, that's what i hoped, since i don't expect to make heavy signal processing. I think I would not have any problem with it. Thank you all for the kind responses. -- Asa Marco <aesir.ml@xxxxxxxxx> 朝 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
