Very simple. I have a concert coming up and I need to record 16 tracks of 24bit 96kHz audio, length about 2 hours. I have 2 MOTU 8Pre firewire interfaces and an Intel 2Ghz MacBook with Logic pro 7 running on it.

Initial trials have not been very successful. I have no problem running 5 tracks at 24/96, but any more and sometime the system will work and other times it falls over ("disk to slow") errors etc. Advice I’ve been given is that the MacBook (2GHz, 2Gb RAM) should be plenty fast enough for this. Basic optimization i've done have improved things a little but not enough to instill confidence that the system will hold up on the night.

I have not had a lot of experience with computer-based recording systems, but they must be more reliable than this! The computer is not running any applications whilst Logic is operational and I have recently performed a clean install also.

There is so much information and I am searching around. However, any advice would be much appreciated. I imagine this must a common problem?

Thanks, Alex.

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