Audacity with ASIO support

[mac]

hi there,

has anyone any experience with implementing ASIO support module into Audacity?
Unfortunately I have no clue how to work with wxWidgets or any other kind of programing/compiling.

We'd like to use Audacity for simultaneous multi-track recording (2 or 3 stereo tracks) but without ASIO I'm afraid latency will be an issue. 

[haesslich]

if you don't need monitoring, latency shouldn't be an issue, i think.
but does audacity support multiple inputs? it does not support multiple outputs, so i'd be surprised if it supported more than stereo in.

[mac]

according to following entry it does support recording multiply tracks at once

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Multichannel_Recording

and yes, i will need monitoring as well.

i'm basically looking for a lightweight, budget software for recording (+ monitoring). the recording computer is 8 years old and it gets short of breath when working on multiply tracks. i strictly need it for raw recording, no effects, no processing. synced recording of two stereo tracks that might be 15-30+ minutes long. thought audacity would do the job. but it looks like i will have to look for another platform. any suggestions/solutions welcomed

[landtitles]

hey there

you might want to check out cockos reaper
i'm using it on an old p4 tower and it works great (with asio)

they also have a great trial, you can use the program until you want to pay(maybe has a 30 sec. nag screen when you boot up)
plus i think if you want to purchase it is 60 bucks

i used "the demo" for months before buying, love it now


lt

[haesslich]

according to following entry it does support recording multiply tracks at once

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Multichannel_Recording

ah good point! didn't knew this. so thank's for pointing this out.
still i'd rather look for a software that supports asio out of the box. remember, if you wanted to compile asio support into audacity, you'd have to learn two API's, the steinberg asio SDK and the audacity API. if you only need "a record button for a number of channels, playback and save to .wav" (no visualization and editing at all), it might even faster writing a soft for that from scratch using Juce (which nicely wraps ASIO into easy to use C++ classes).

too bad that Tracktion seems to have vanished. this was a really lightweight DAW.  on a mac, ardour could do the job.

[mac]

I'll see if the unit can handle recording to Reaper, which would allow visualization (doubt it though when the files get bigger 500+ mb, we tried it already and as soon as we got to 4 tracks it froze for good) ; or to Audiomulch 1.0, but this way I won't know if the input signal is clipping or not.

I was also thinking if monitoring could be done directly form the audio-interface (via headphone output) then latency wouldn't be an issue and wouldn't have to switch to ASIO at all I guess.

[landtitles]

i assume your using a laptop which would be why, hard drives running @ 4200rpm

maybe try with an external drive, might work if you have firewire


lt

[mac]

i assume your using a laptop which would be why, hard drives running @ 4200rpm

maybe try with an external drive, might work if you have firewire

lt

it's a desktop with an internal 5400rpm

[landtitles]

just a thought but...

at my local compu shop, 2nd hand 80gb 7200 ide hard drives are 25bucks sometimes cheaper for less gb


might be something to check out


lt