On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:18:43 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > *if* sweep uses floats or ints to represent audio data in memory (a > big *if*) then 10 minutes of 48kHz 2 channel audio is about 219MB:
Its float internall IIRC. > i would consider a much more fundamental problem with sweep (which the > author has plans to fix at some point) is the assumption that the > audio data will fit in memory. this just isn't viable for working with > "music" rather than "audio clips". Agreed. > gnoise doesn't do this, and neither does snd. i am not sure about > audacity, but i suspect it doesn't either. Audacity, and glame use disk paging. IMHO sweep has the best UI (speed, clarity, usability), its a shame about the RAM thing, but maybe thats why its so fast. - Steve
