It is nice to think that one could just go and buy any computer, install a
bit of software on it and start using it to record and create music. This
idea isn't necessarily wrong, but there are some important details that it
- misses. Any computer that that can be bought today (since somewhere around
+ misses. Any computer that can be bought today (since somewhere around
the end of 2012) is capable of recording and processing a lot of audio data.
It will come with a builtin audio interface that can accept inputs from
microphones and/or electrical instruments; it will have a disk with a huge
internal USB hub between the ports and the system bus, which can then cause
problems for various kinds of external USB devices, including some models of
audio interfaces. It is very difficult to discover whether this is true or
- not without simplying trying it out.</td></tr>
+ not, without simply trying it out.</td></tr>
<tr><th><abbr title="Central Processing Unit">CPU</abbr> speed control</th>
<td>Handling audio with low latency requires that the processor keeps running
at its highest speed at all times. Many portable systems try to regulate
this.</td></tr>
</table>
+<p>
+ Richard Ames presents a long (28
+ minute) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsLLEkswzE">video</a>
+ that is very helpful if you want to understand these issues in more
+ depth. It is a little bit Windows-centric, but the explanations apply to
+ all types of computers and operating systems.
+</p>
+
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