Forwarding as I accidentally didn't do a reply to all....<br><br> Seablade<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Vecchione</b> <
<a href="mailto:seablaede@gmail.com">seablaede@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jul 17, 2007 11:42 AM<br>Subject: Re: [ardour-users] 48 channels on ardour<br>To: Steven Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:steven@pyro.eu.org">steven@pyro.eu.org
</a>><br><br></span>I wouldn't do 48 tracks at 24/96. I have a disk dedicated to playback for a session I am working on, and 24-26 at 24/96 is pushing it, and I would consider it to unreliable for recording that large a track count. For 48 tracks, I would say go with a RAID array.
<br><br> Seablade<div><span class="e" id="q_113d50f511f1e178_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Chamberlain</b> <<a href="mailto:steven@pyro.eu.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
steven@pyro.eu.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
cristiano scabello wrote:<br>> the system works well with more than one soundcard (like five m-audio<br>> delta1010 in one machine?) does it make any sense?<br><br>I suffer from frequent xruns when trying to use two Delta 1010s at the
<br>same time. I believe this is related to the ALSA pcm_multi plugin.<br><br>This page (site currently down) is tracking this issue:<br> <a href="http://trac.64studio.com/64studio/ticket/266" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://trac.64studio.com/64studio/ticket/266
</a><br><br>This page also mentions the same issue, as well as other problems<br>related to multiple Delta 1010s in some detail:<br> <a href="http://www.sound-man.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.sound-man.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html
</a><br><br>Also, whichever sound cads you use, if you record 48 tracks in ardour as<br>32-bit WAVE files at 96000Hz, I believe this would require writing to<br>the disks at almost 18MB/sec. You would need to make sure your disk
<br>system is capable of writing at a *continuous* 18MB/sec, which is<br>probably quite demanding?<br><br>I have not used SATA drives before; can anyone tell me what rate they<br>can be written to continuously?<br><br>With the right hardware, I'm sure ardour would make a very nice 48-track
<br>recording system. Good luck!<br><br>Regards,<br>--<br>Steven Chamberlain<br><a href="mailto:steven@pyro.eu.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">steven@pyro.eu.org</a><br>_______________________________________________
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