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<blockquote data-quote="Howard Tomlinson" data-source="post: 129026" data-attributes="member: 6460">Re: X32 Discussiona lot of stuff and nonsense talked about the capacity of machines for one way recording using the x32. with the buffers set appropriately people are achieving results for 32 channel recording on incredibly low spec machines. I ran a competition recently on a facebook forum and a few people came back with 1.6ghz and 1gb memory, xp laptop and that wasn&#039;t the minimum spec! mixing within the laptop is a different matter but for straight recording and for mixdown from laptop to x32 and then down to an LR master, a very small spec is needed. obviously 64 doubles the data but if its technically possible to record two machines simultaneously (which it apparently is, given Brian&#039;s comment) then you may be surprised by how low you can go. I think this is one of those things you need to experiment with before you go for a final recording (a dummy run or two if you will). Keep us all posted with the results and don&#039;t forget to look at buffer settings in reaper (the tool of choice for this sort of thing) and within your mac etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Howard Tomlinson, post: 129026, member: 6460"] Re: X32 Discussion a lot of stuff and nonsense talked about the capacity of machines for one way recording using the x32. with the buffers set appropriately people are achieving results for 32 channel recording on incredibly low spec machines. I ran a competition recently on a facebook forum and a few people came back with 1.6ghz and 1gb memory, xp laptop and that wasn't the minimum spec! mixing within the laptop is a different matter but for straight recording and for mixdown from laptop to x32 and then down to an LR master, a very small spec is needed. obviously 64 doubles the data but if its technically possible to record two machines simultaneously (which it apparently is, given Brian's comment) then you may be surprised by how low you can go. I think this is one of those things you need to experiment with before you go for a final recording (a dummy run or two if you will). Keep us all posted with the results and don't forget to look at buffer settings in reaper (the tool of choice for this sort of thing) and within your mac etc. [/QUOTE]

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