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Offline Bigboy

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m-audio audiophile 2496?
« on: July 30, 2006, 12:23:20 AM »
hi

how many tracks can a audiophile 2496  playback while recording two new tracks simultaneously?

ok naman specs nya and pasok sa budget.

thanks.
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Offline KitC

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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 12:35:29 AM »
Quote from: Bigboy
how many tracks can a audiophile 2496  playback while recording two new tracks simultaneously?


As many as your computer and software will allow. Track count is limited mostly by 2 things: raw cpu power and hard disk throughput. High cpu speeds is especially important if you use a lot of plugins/effects. A slow hard disk also affects track count but most 7200 rpm hard disks now can deliver the necessary output; used to be you had to rely on SCSI for high data throughput. Theoretically, SATA 2 drives will give yo more throughput, but try to read up on issues between M-Audio cards and SATA. Still, ordinary PATA drives are quite sufficient for the task.
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Offline jplacson

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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2006, 01:16:56 PM »
And of course your software's limitation.  Granted that you will usually run into your hardware limits first before you hit the software limits.

Pro Tools LE and M-Powered are limited to 32 recorded (18 simultaneous) tracks (48 if you get the expansion kit) and 256 MIDI tracks.

There's a free recording app called Audacity (for those people that are running pirated stuff and don't know how to use it anyway... just ditch it and start learning on Audacity)  It's a simple straight forward multi-track/overdubbing program.  Runs on anything, Linux, XP, OSX.  Upto 16-tracks.  And it's really free.  Google it! :)  I'd recommend this to anyone who's just starting out.  You get to learn the basics of recording (it can handle up to 96/32FP) without a lot of the extra functions that you probably won't need just yet.

This program is perfect for those that just do overdubs and don't have multi-channel soundcard inputs.  Just press R to record, and SPACE to stop.
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Offline Al_Librero

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 04:11:42 PM »
My problem with Audacity is that it you can't set the timeline into bars and beats. As far as DAW software is concerned, I think REAPER is superior over Audacity and Kristal AE.

REAPER hand in hand with Audacity can make for a respectable setup considering they're both free.
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Offline KitC

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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2006, 06:12:32 PM »
Especially now that Reaper is at version.0.999. Once it hits v.1.0 it won't be free anymore so get it while it's hot!
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Offline Bigboy

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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2006, 11:35:04 AM »
thanks for the info. i will try both audacity and reaper. a foot in the door in the wonderful world of music production.. and its free!
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