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Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Digital Audio Workstations & MIDI Applications => Topic started by: supernova777 on July 30, 2014, 07:52:32 PM

Title: data load for recording in 44.1khz
Post by: supernova777 on July 30, 2014, 07:52:32 PM

When you're working with digital audio data in cd quality (44.1khz) you can generally rely on the rule of thumb
1 minute of stereo signal = 10Mb of data.
1 minute mono track = 5mb of hard disk real estate.

tracks	1 min	5 min	10 min
1	5mb	25mb	50mb
2	10mb	50mb	100mb
4	20mb	100mb	200mb
8	40mb	200mb	400mb
16	80mb	400mb	800mb
24	120mb	600mb	1.2GB
32	160mb	800mb	1.6GB

Title: Re: data load for recording in 44.1khz
Post by: supernova777 on August 02, 2014, 03:15:37 PM

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/dec96/pcsoundcards2.html
similar chart can be found comparing 8bit here

Title: Re: data load for recording in 44.1khz
Post by: supernova777 on August 18, 2014, 11:03:32 PM

this is from the pro tools free FAQ/ReadMe PDF