07-27-2019, 03:23 PM
(07-26-2019, 08:59 PM)binarian Wrote:(07-18-2019, 07:12 AM)mamboman777 Wrote: Greetings! I'm planning on purchasing a PBP. I would like to use it as a daily work machine for email and web browsing, but I'm curious if it may be usable for my side gig. I am a recording engineer. I would need it to run jack+ardour to record up to 16 track simultaneously @ 44.1k. Does anyone see any reason this won't work? The storage world be a concern. I would probably place sessions and tracks on USB drives.
Audio recording in and of itself isn't a cpu-heavy task, so while the PBP doesn't have a ton of horsepower it will probably handle that alright. Make sure your storage device can handle the throughput though.
Doing editing, however, is not something I would recommend.
Editing, or even any plugins at all is not part of the plan. I just want to write to disk. Everything else would be done at home on a different machine.
Are there throughput limitations for the PBP usb? Focusrite gear all runs on USB 2.0, so I would probably consider using the USB 3 port on the pbp for the storage. I have recorded stuff like this to an sd card before, so I'm hoping there's not going to be much of a problem.