En una misma máquina, corduo intel 2,66, 3gb ram, gráficos nvidia, lancé el test de rendimiento de audacity, el que viene por defecto, y encontré los siguientes resultados: En musix live Alpha dvd: kernel live es: Using 57260 chunks of 293 samples each, for a total of 32,0 MB. Preparing... Performing 100 edits... Time to perform 100 edits: 4094 ms Doing correctness check... Passed correctness check! Time to check all data: 30842 ms Reading data again... Time to check all data (2): 30835 ms At 44100 Hz, 16-bits per sample, the estimated number of simultaneous tracks that could be played at once: 12,3 ************* En XP sp2, modificado con eliminación de recursos innecesarios ( fondo, adornos de visualización, etc) para mejor rendimiento: Using 63310 chunks of 265 samples each, for a total of 32,0 MB. Preparing... Performing 100 edits... Time to perform 100 edits: 9750 ms Doing correctness check... Passed correctness check! Time to check all data: 4875 ms Reading data again... Time to check all data (2): 4859 ms At 44100 Hz, 16-bits per sample, the estimated number of simultaneous tracks that could be played at once: 78,3 ****** En debian lenny 32 bits (musix): Using 57260 chunks of 293 samples each, for a total of 32.0 MB. Preparing... Performing 100 edits... Time to perform 100 edits: 1456 ms Doing correctness check... Passed correctness check! Time to check all data: 2166 ms Reading data again... Time to check all data (2): 2159 ms At 44100 Hz, 16-bits per sample, the estimated number of simultaneous tracks that could be played at once: 176.2 ******** En Opensuse 11.1 64bits (86_64): Using 57260 chunks of 293 samples each, for a total of 32,0 MB. Preparing... Performing 100 edits... Time to perform 100 edits: 969 ms Doing correctness check... Passed correctness check! Time to check all data: 1819 ms Reading data again... Time to check all data (2): 1818 ms At 44100 Hz, 16-bits per sample, the estimated number of simultaneous tracks that could be played at once: 209,3 ******** Si alguien tiene lenny64 bits, favor posteen los resultados. En una Macbook pro, duo, que me prestaron 5 minutos, el reusltado fue de 22 tracks simultaneos. *********