Audacity Forum

kozikowski wrote:<<<I only have 512MB of memory>>>

That didn't ring any bells with anybody? That's not enough internal memory for live audio production. The system will start pushing the work off to the hard drive almost immediately.

That depends on the operating system. For example, on Windows Vista the operating system will gobble up 512MB of RAM and scream for more, whereas on a lightweight Linux system (for example one using LXDE as the Windows Manager) Audacity will run quite happily with 512MB of RAM.

On any system, if you are recording more than short audio clips that will fit entirely in RAM, you need sufficiently fast disk access for the data to be written in real time. On Windows, disk performance drops significantly over time due to file fragmentation (particularly true for Windows versions that use the FAT file system, though the problem still exists for NTFS).

susewho wrote:I got the set-up to work. I had to go into the Alesis Firewire Control Panel and go under the System Sounds Configuration part and for the Input and Output options I set the multi-channel config to "Direct" and then it worked for all 12+2 tracks.

Where is this located? Are you using win or OS X? Im getting a firewire 12 and want to set it up like u set yours up to do all tracks.

Thanks

Does anyone knows how to do the monitoring from the computers outputs with Alesis multimix firewire 12 and still record from the mixer multi inputs channels to the software.
I'm trying to get the playback sound from the computer not the mixer headphones or the mixer ctrl rm out and I want to get the sound straight from the sound card while recording or playing with my mixer.

moyotte wrote:Does anyone knows how to do the monitoring from the computers outputs with Alesis multimix firewire 12 and still record from the mixer multi inputs channels to the software.

See pages 27 and 28 of the Alesis multimix firewire 12 reference manual. If you don't have the reference manual you can download it from http://www.alesis.com