[TriLUG] Sound recording/editing/archiving - where to start?

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Well Let me tell you guys what I want to do:

I want to use a PC with an ENORMOUS HDD as a studio mixer for a band. I want
to use it for 64 track digital recording instead of having to buy and Eve
console (powered sliders of course), tascam 24 track recorder, CAD or Tascam
DAC/ADC, Alesis compressor/limiter/verb, and CD-Ra burner (such as an Alesis
or Tascam). I want to do this on Linux. I can do it on a MAC, but it's very
pricy to do it that way.



-----Original Message-----
From: Thunder Bear [mailto:thunderbear at yonderway.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:26 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Sound recording/editing/archiving - where to start?


FWIW, sound is nowhere near as processor intensive as video editing.  A used
Mac G3 will be more than enough machine to do sound editing.  OS X 10.2
"Jaguar" is coming out very soon which will supposedly reduce the hardware
requirements for running OS X and allow older systems to become more usable.

One audio tool that I use for videography work is "Audacity", which is an
open source app on linux that has been ported to the native OS X GUI.  On my
800MHz G4 it is extremely responsive and I have no reason to doubt that it
would run very well on lesser hardware.

I used to do sound editing about 12 years ago or so and the main problem
back then as I recall was NOT the processor (think 386/486) but hard disk
capacity & memory.  MP3 and OGG were not even thought of back then, so you
were usually working with raw uncompressed audio.  MP3 of course wouldn't be
playable on a processor of that vintage anyway.  The Mac guy back then had
it all over us on the PC's.  I think the playing field may be level today in
terms of capabilities but I've gained a lot of respect for the Mac over the
last month in terms of hardware/software integration.  

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:31, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> Lisa, how far have you gotten on this one?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa C. Boyd [mailto:lcboyd at nc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Sound recording/editing/archiving - where to start?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 15:37, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> > FWIW,
> >  Those in the industry that use computers to do the work (not 
> > digital
> > studios, like Roland or Alesis, but PC's or Mac's), most use Mac's. 
> > It's definitely superior to Windows based PC's, but I'm certain that 
> > we can get a Linux based system to work.
> 
> Hmmm. I may be able to get my hands on a Mac, but the speed would 
> worry me about that. Do you have any idea about recommended min 
> processor speed/memory and such?
> 
> Lisa B.
> 
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