Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ecasound on an i486
From: Kai Vehmanen (kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 21:45:51 EEST
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, jordan muscott wrote:
> I am toying with the idea of putting a slim linux install ( no X ) on my
> old 486 purely as a hard disk recorder. Anyone konw if ecasound would
> run on a 486 / 25mhz / 24megs ram ??
That's where it all started. First versions of ecasound (then called
'wavstat') run on my 486/33Mhz(dx). While ecasound is not exactly
optimized for low-end machines (fpu is a must), switching between realtime
and non-realtime operation is extremely easy.
If your machine can't keep up with playing three tracks and recording one
new one, just make a submix of the first three tracks and all is fine
again. Similarly if some effect consumes too much cpu-power, making a temp
version with effects applied non-rt is easy. So something similar to
bouncing on analog 4/8-tracks. I used ecasound quite a lot in this fashion
before I finally afforded to upgrade my studio server. :)
I actually have the latest ecasound (the debian package) installed on my
486/25 router and it seems to run (=like start up and all :)), although I
haven't done any recording on it.
-- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
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