Greetings all,

 I have a computer set-up for live recording of my garage band. It's a
Pentium 4 3.20GHz hyper-threading rig with 2 gig ram, a 250 gig WD
SATA drive, 2 pci cards connected to (2) 8-channel microphone
interface units and xp home sp2 with a 2046mb paging file size setting
(too much ??).

 I'm using Adobe Audition for multi-track recording, mix-down and
mastering. When we're playing, it's easier to just let it record for
the whole set rather than stop between songs, walk across the room to
the mixing console and pc to stop recording and save each track as
well as the session settings then set it up to start recording again.
However, considering the total file size of all the tracks and session
settings can add up to over 6 gig (12gig when I forget to stop between
sets), I have a problem opening the files later for editing as it
often locks up the pc (especially the accidental 12 gig round).

 I've put the question of remote operation of the pc to the PCbuild
list but I would like to know if there's a cheap (or free) solution
for splitting the large files I can't access into smaller files. The
session files are small enough to work with but the audio (wave) files
are where my problem lies. I can save the songs individually if I can
access them and I think that as long as I retain the original files, I
can re-split them if the first split should happen to cut part of a
song off.

Any thoughts?

Phillip

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