[ardour-users] 48 channels on ardour

Thomas Vecchione seablaede at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 00:06:51 PDT 2007


Or you would have to ahve limited resources, which the average home studio
has.  Remember it is NOT a linear degredation in available tracks when
adding recording and playback to the same drive.  You lose a LARGE chunk of
performance much faster.

Meaning, lets say, hypothetically a single 200 Gig 7200 RPM drive has the
capacity to do 32 tracks of playback(I pull this from my previous post, but
still consider it a vast estimation) in real life.

If you do one track recording, and 4 tracks playback, it does NOT equal 5
tracks of that 32 track capacity.  In fact more than likely you are probably
bordering on using up a third of that disk performance with just that,
instead of the sixth you might expect, due to the amount the head might have
to move around, to read from one section of the drive, and write to another.

Exactly how costly it is depends on many factors, how fragmented your drive
is, how much reading and writing, etc.  but the end result is the same.  You
can record much more reliably if you record to a drive that is only used for
recording, and read from a different drive.  And when you are talking about
something on a limited time frame, that reliability can be important, for
instance doing playback of backing tracks in a live instance, while
recording your performance, not exactly uncommon.

                    Seablade

On 7/18/07, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at doink.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 18 July 2007 at 7:39, "John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > 2 HDs would be better, one for recording to, one for playback,
> > >
> > This doesn't make sense to me.  Surely you'd have to play the
> > audio back from the same drive that it was recorded on - or
> > would you copy the audio from the record drive to the playback
> > drive after it's recorded?
>
> That does sound a bit confusing, doesn't it.  If a person is
> recording one part of a performance (e.g. guitar) along with a
> recording of other people (e.g. piano), then they'll need to hear
> the playback while they're recording.  Moving audio around during
> a tracking session doesn't sound fun.  One wouldn't have to be a
> purist about this.  It'd probably be fine to have the guitarist
> hear they're just recorded track playing back on the same drive
> where they'll be recoding overdubs.
>
> Certainly separating audio files and system (OS) files onto
> separated disks would be good.
>
> Cheers....
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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