[Christien]

The individual files won't be anywhere near 2 GB. Each mic/line will be recorded to a separate audio file - one 3 minute song would typically consist of 8 drum mics, 1 bass, 2 guitars and three vocal lines, so 14 sound files total, each the length of the song, so say 3 min. So what we get is 14 x ~30 MB, (assuming mono 16-bit, 44.1) so maybe just under half a GB total data per song, but a bunch of small files. Of course, we'll probably record in 96K 32 bit, so quadruple that, but still way under 2GB per file.