paul007
Joined: 17/10/06
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Hi,
I recently purchased the Mac Book Pro 13" Laptop. I am now looking to
purchase Logic Pro and Reason 4.0 for it.
Having recently been listening to the
Home Recording Podcasts, one tip they had for MAC users was to keep the OS separate to
audio when recording, i.e. get a Firewire Hard drive and record to that. Whilst I
understand this I wanted to clarify, as I use a lot of samples for the Instruments I don't
play (Drums, Strings etc etc) What is the best configuration for me to have. I have a
250GB Hard Drive on the Laptop, but should I be getting a Firewire Hard Drive as well?
Also where should I be installing everything?
To add to this question I
currently use a USB UA-25 Edirol Audio Device, however will eventually look to upgrade and
am looking at the typical Focusrite and Presonus devices which tend to be 8 channel inputs
that connect via Firewire. If I have the Firewire device and hard drive but only one
Firewire Port what would be my best configuration?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks Paul.
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Scope
Joined: 03/07/06
Posts: 1809
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So you have either come from Pc or this is your first time with a computer ?
Either
way, welcome to Mac, you will find life a little less stressful than most alternatives out
there.
So given the speed of your MBP's HD, I would be tempted not to worry too
much about splitting audio from OS.
Yes it is good practice but space is a luxury on
a MBP.
What ever you decided don't partition the HD.
There is no gain
and this practice was born out of need for M/S users having to protect their files when
frequently re-installing windows.
There is no speed advantage, it actually works the
HD harder, shortening its life.
- and you actually waste some space, which you will
find is very precious on a laptop.
Best to try it out first before spending
money, you should achieve quite reasonable results before having to use FW to get more
tracks.
For long tern storage and external HD is a winner.
USB is not as
good as FW but it is cheaper
Quite a few external HDs have both USB and FW ports,
these are the ones to buy.
You can chain FW devices like a mini network and
connecting FW400 to FW800 is a simple cable / plug converter.
I can't think of
a time where a F-W audio device was hampered by a F-W HD, so again, try it
I my
maths is correct 800 M-bits per second = 100 mega-bites p/s
which is more than
enough.
One thing thats does help, is iDefrag - its a great app and every A/V
user should buy it.
Whilst the OS-X is a bit more caring in its file laying, (unlike
windows which scatters data like some peasant farmer sowing a field,)
iDefag goes one
further and improves HD performance.
Overall, the MBP is well spec'd and
faster than 90% of laptop computers out there, so I would see what you can do before
spending any cash.
Hope this helps.
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G-Doubleyou
Joined: 10/02/06
Posts: 651
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Most DAWS suggest a separate Hard drive for audio recording and samples.
The
internal will work to a point, but as track count, and instances of virtual instruments,
and effects increase, more virtual memory is required.
OSX will Always use part
of the system disk for virtual memory.
OSX,will have priority and, may delay other
apps access to the system drive while it handles virtual memory.
May result in
pops and clicks, for best performance a dedicated audio drive is the way to go.
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G-Dub
Studio G-fx
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FutureRetro
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Joined: 09/07/02
Posts: 489
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I'd get an esata card for your express port and an esata external drive. Not much
difference in price but much better performance. Also means you don't have to have the HD
and audio device sharing the same FW bus.
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