[Matt Ion]

Arny Krueger wrote:

I can't quite understand the hype around Audacity. I
guess my computer is just so slow that it reveals the
bugs. On a 1GHz processor though, it cannot actually
record sound without dropouts and glitches. Once those
glitches are in the data stream, it cannot write out to a
.wav file that will write to
a standard audio CD.

Just because you have dropouts and glitches on some particular computer,
does not necessarily supporting claims about computers in general, even
computers of just that clock speed. I've seen 400 MHz machines record
multitrack flawlessly, and I've see 3 GHz machines that added dropouts and
clicks to just stereo.

Yup, seen all that myself. Our main studio machine for years was an
Athlon 800Mhz with 128MB RAM, running Win98SE, with an ADAT PCR card for
ADAT control and transfer. It would nicely stream all 8 ADAT tracks of
44.1k or 48kHz, 16-bit audio, without a hiccup (granted, had to use a
SCSI drive for that, as ATA-66 just wouldn't handle it).