[Ardour-Users] heavy slicing issues & history

[james jwm-art net]

That's umm, interesting. I'd assummed it was the old athlon I bought
off ebay - purchased the ram around the same time which was new, but
cheap :(

will check...

james.

On 25/7/2007, "Jesse Chappell" <jesse at essej.net> wrote:

>On 7/24/07, james jwm-art net <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
>> Have just compiled ardour2.0.3 on a dying CPU, with numerous complaints
>> of internal compiler errors but got there in the end.
>
>First flag right there, internal compiler errors are almost always due
>to bad/failing RAM.  First thing you should do is do a memtest run
>(run from the boot loader).  Bad RAM will mess you up good.
>
>> I have imported a 2:20 44.1 16bit stereo wav into a new session. The
>> imported wav is on 1 stereo audio channel, and numerous slices (longest
>> perhaps 1sec) have been made into it. The sliced regions have been
>> copied and re-arranged with crossfades on a seperate audio channel. So
>> far, the re-arranged version spreads across 6 bars (88 bpm 4/4). The
>> .ardour file for it is 685k and 13500 lines. It's history file is 80mb.
>
>Ardour seems to have some issues with its undo history lately... just
>a gestalt feeling I have.  I think you might be seeing a combination
>of hardware and software issues, unfortunately.
>
>jlc
>