Hello Ben - At 03:42 PM 10/22/02 +0100, you wrote:
>> One recorded MIDI/WAV conversion gets me a 20-70meg WAV file. >> With W31's limit of 16meg of memory it's not likely I can >> load any of these into an editor to normalize or equalize >> or any other adjustments. >Hmm... Have you looked at a piece of software called Cool Edit? I think >that's the thingy I'm thinking of, it's been a while since I've used it; I'm >not sure if it was on 3.1 or 95 either, but it may be worth investigating. I have Cool Edit and would give it an 8 on a 1-10 scale but it was too involved for my needs and is not freeware. The demo is crippleware etc. I use GoldWave editor on an 800mhz W98SE machine. >As I recall, it would do direct-from-disk editing on a wave file, >so wouldn't need to load the whole thing into RAM. Possibly but there is no W31 version I am aware of. >BTW, I'm 99% certain Windows 3.1 could see all 40MB of installed >RAM on my old P133 machine (now doing router/server duty here so >I can't boot into DOS and check); admittedly it's been a long time >since I did any development under Win16 so there might be a >per-allocation or per-application limitation I'm forgetting. Being Microsoft the OS would 'see' the memory but still not use it. The VM swap file will 'see' all of your empty hard drive but uses a 4:1 multiple of installed memory and even if you manually insert a larger number only that 4:1 is actually ever used by W31. I would opt that it's a per-application limitation but could be a total memory before swapping begins thing? I've seen it mentioned several times just lately but have had no reason to check into it in detail. WAV editing is one of the few operations that will 'stall' the 800mhz machine here for awhile. Resampling or normalizing can take a minute or two. On legacy hardware at 1/10th the speed of the 800mhz I would guess that would translate into 1/2 hour. Not un-doable but not particularly encouraging either. :-\ I'm already thinking that sound editing when done properly needs a 1 gig memory W2K machine to make it efficient and a pleasant activity. :-) Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
