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Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

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In article ,
Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with 256
MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

MrT.

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In article ,
Jim wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with 256
MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

MrT.



If you want to *edit* a 25 minute decent resolution music file, and the
software has an 'undo' facility, things will slow up considerably.

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In article , Jim
wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with
256 MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping and
tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

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In article , Jim
wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to
HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file
with 256 MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping
and tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

FWIW I tend to do this kind of thing by manipulating the files on HD. Thus
only needing to load far less than a MB into RAM at any time during the
process. This also using RISC OS, although I assume much the same can be
done with other OSs.

Users of RO who also subscribe to 'Archive' magazine will have seen some
examples detailed in recent months. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping
and tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

FWIW I tend to do this kind of thing by manipulating the files on HD.
Thus only needing to load far less than a MB into RAM at any time during
the process. This also using RISC OS, although I assume much the same
can be done with other OSs.

Yes - although it does of course mean re-recording the final result -
which takes a bit more time.

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In article , Jim
wrote:
Any sound card would do providing you can find one to run on your
system. 256MB RAM would be a bit of a concern.

I don't understand PCs, but isn't it going near enough straight to HD?

Yes, and most wave editors will work quite happily on a stereo file with
256 MB RAM. Even less if you don't use Win XP.

When I first started doing this under RISC OS, I was happily 'topping and
tailing' LP tracks with 30 MB of RAM.

Many of us did the same on 64 meg machines running Win95, using CoolEdit 96.
A glance at the archives shows that the original CoolEdit ran under Windows
3.1 - probably on machines as small as 4 megs, if not 16 megs.