Hi everyone,
I want to do some multi-track recording using Ardour and an XR18 as mixer using my Windows11 laptop.
How would I notice that the laptop is too weak to do this ?
My laptop is a HP 250 G8 Intel i3-1115G4 with 8GB RAM… Not the strongest.
Would this laptop be enough ?
Any hint ?
Thanks a lot
Vincent
Di you have the XR18 already at hand? Just try it out, the mixer doesn’t care whether it sends silence for all 12 channels or a “real” signal.
Also, you can increase the buffer size to 256, 512 or even 1024 samples to use less resources. With the XR18 it should be easy to do any monitoring while recording directly in the hardware, so the latency with higher buffer sizes doesn’t matter that much.
I think it will work fine.
A while back I recorded a live gig via my XR18. I recorded 16 channels over nearly 3 hours into Ardour on to an elderly (2013) Asus Zenbook UX32A (Core i3-2367M processor, 4 GB of RAM).
Now, I was running Linux, which may make a difference. But I had no issues at all.
Cheers,
Keith
What type of hard drive ? 5400rpm 7200 rpm or SSD ?
It almost doesn’t matter, I once recorded 32 tracks on a really old 4-core laptop with 5400 RPM drive. Just set the buffer size high and don’t load plugins, capturing is not very resource intensive.
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Yes, after thinking about it, you are right. With todays computers, it probably doesn’t matter. I was thinking about Ultra DMA 33 5400 to UDMA 66 7200…it made a BIG difference back on whatever single or dual processor it was.