On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:12 , Ben Edwards sent: >The questions >----------------- >Firstly I noticed ardour is at a 0.9 beta. This makes me feel it is >probably a lot more stable than windows software generally is but was >wondering how stable it is. I would be recording sessions up to 5-6 >hours and possibly multi track. > Last weekend I recorded a demo, using Ardour, with one of my bands. Ten hours straight, usually 7 tracks at once (my card only supports ten inputs - 8 analog, 2 digital), no crashes, no problems. It's pretty close to going 1.0. >The second question is how appropriated ardour would be for what I am >eventually looking at. Hopefully we can get funding to bring all the >lines from the stage upstares. This will allow us to remix up stares >for streaming radio but I would also like to be able to do multi track >recording. Their performers would then be able to get these recording >from us (at a sensible cost price). Would ardour be good for this. >Also has anyone done anything simeler (specifically in a community >Centre). Trying to work out the best way of splinting the inputs (for >the auditorium/media room) and whether it would be possible to >multiplex the lines and bring them upstares over say one optic fibre. >Any other advice such as other hardware to use for this in conjunction >with ardour would be good – and the kind of amount it may cost. We >are talking of the stage being a couple of stories below the media >room. > Ardour is exactly what you are looking for. To get enough input channels you'll either have to look at buying multiple M-Audio 1010s or one of the RME setups. There are probably other cards that can be synced but the best supported are M-Audios. Jan