Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ecasound on an i486
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 22:09:29 EEST
Kai Vehmanen wrote:
>
> 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.
i have a 386/387 with 8 megs and two 120mb disks lying around.
free for any palaeontologist who wants to pick it up in
essen/germany, and i'll throw in an oak/mozart isa soundcard, too :)
-- Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat the yellow snow ! - Frank Zappa
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