[ardour-dev] MultiTrack recording

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 00:22 +0000, Chris Goddard wrote:
> > maybe you should talk to harrison/GLW consoles. they are currently
> > strongly suggesting ardour to their clients as the best software
> > strategy to use with their current and future hardware.
> 
> Interesting. They may not be too keen to talk when they know we'll be using it 
> with an SSL console ;-)

oh, they will. trust me on this. 

> > ardour is perfectly capable of doing what you want, and by most people's
> > experience is significantly more stable and resource friendly that its
> > competition. several people are already doing what you are talking about
> > with ardour; they are not totally free of problems from time to time,
> > but no more and generaly less than with other solutions.
> 
> Encouraging
> 
> > the major limitation right now is that "extended periods of time" is
> > limited by the maximum possible size of any mono .WAV file, which for
> > 96kHz is not very long at all. we aim to fix this issue in the very near
> > future.
> 
> Noted. We could be recording upto 2.5 hours. Maybe sometimes more.
> 
> A further question. Does Ardour have the ability to chase LTC ?

we chase SMPTE-as-MTC.

--p