Re: [Ardour-users] hardware recommendations / performance bottlenecks

From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_at_cableone.net)
Date: 10/10/03 17:38 EDT


Subject: Re: [Ardour-users] hardware recommendations / performance bottlenecks
From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69@cableone.net>
Message-Id: <1065821905.19692.12.camel@eviltwin>
Date: 10 Oct 2003 16:38:24 -0500

Jonathan,


	I would recommend the M Audio Delta 44.  Musician's Friend has it for
about $250 US.  The envy24 chipset is well supported and has onboard
mix/monitor so you can kick your sample size up and still monitor in
real time.  You definitely need to do the low-latency mod.  I'm running
a 2600 XP with a pair of 5400 IDE drives (one just for audio) and have
no problems.  I'm using a DSP 2000 C-port (envy24 chipset with 8 analog
I/Os).  I've got some tuning stuff on my web page -
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html


Jan


On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 16:27, Jonathan wrote:
> Hi,
>                                                                                 
> I've been playing with Ardour and so far I really like it.  Right now
> I'm using a very cheap mic with my Sound Blaster Live! card.  I can
> currently only record two channels at a time, and was wondering if
> anyone has a recommendation on some hardware that would enable recording
> four channels at a time.  I don't need anything really professional.
>                                                                                 
> Also, I have a AMD Athlon 2600 XP and my harddrive is a 7200 IDE.  Would
> the performance bottleneck likely be my processor or my harddrive?
> Also, is it possible/a good idea to make a ramdrive and record to that?
>                                                                                 
> I'm running a stock 2.4.22 kernel, but am planning on applying the low
> latency patches it to get better performance.
>                                                                                 
> --
> Jonathan B. York
> http://www.nickelwound.com/
> 
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