[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index][
Author Index]
Re: setting up Mac for audio - questions
OMG yezzzz!!
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 AM, mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com>
wrote:
> did it last week. if you have a time machine backup of the old mac,
> just plug it in to the new mac and turn it on... worked for me... like
> a dream.. same as old mac now with added Lion!!!!
>
> Sent from my (advertisement removed)
>
> On 4 Oct 2011, at 01:13, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> and by the way folks,would you recomend me do a fresh reinstall of
>> everything in my new imac or would you use a program like carbon clone
>> to save time and copy everything to my imac? bear in mind that the old
>> one has OSX leopard and the new one i believe come with OSX lion
>> has anybody done this?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Louie Angulo
>> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> i know Time capsule is not FW,though it has ethernet and USB instead
>>> and now up to 3TB of space,i believe
>>> so would you recomend it and would it be fast in combination with
>>> logic to access all the installed Native libraries in it for example?
>>> cheers
>>> Luis
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 AM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Yea, all audio on a separate drive, all virtual instruments are
>>>> SUPPOSED TO
>>>> BE on yet another separate drive. Firewire works great for me! I've
>>>> done
>>>> some very high track count sessions without blip.
>>>> I've heard the new USB is faster. Don't know how robust it is.
>>>>
>>>> And Drobo (an external modified raid) is THE BOMB for backup. I have
>>>> 7TB in
>>>> mine right now and will upgrade to 10 TB soon. They're very slow to
>>>> set up,
>>>> slow (as in days sometimes) when installing new drives, but once set
>>>> up,
>>>> they're great for backup (use Time Machine). Then I have a Newer
>>>> Technologies Voyager for second backup. I take the old drives out of
>>>> the
>>>> Drobo when they get upgraded and use them in the Voyager for second
>>>> backup.
>>>> Voyager is just like a socket you plug different drives into as
>>>> needed. In
>>>> lieu of a Drobo, I'd at least get a Voyager and a bunch of 1 or 2 TB
>>>> raw
>>>> internal drives to plug into it when needed.
>>>> Drobo is great because, if a drive fails, you just plug in a new one.
>>>> No
>>>> data lost. I use the cheap WD green Caviar drives. Slow but, again,
>>>> great
>>>> for safety.
>>>> www.drobo.com
>>>> Buy 'em at Egghead or wherever.
>>>> One drawback: the more HDs you have hanging on Firewire (etc), the
>>>> slower
>>>> the startup.
>>>> Every time I've done a partition, I've regretted it. I'm sure YMMV.
>>>> Other World Computing makes great drives for recording. Guaranteed
>>>> for
>>>> three years or so.
>>>> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
>>>> LaCie is also good. I think they might cost more.
>>>> I usually buy raw drives from Tiger Direct. Haven't shopped a whole
>>>> lot,
>>>> though.
>>>> R
>>>> richard sales
>>>> www.glasswing.com
>>>> www.hayleysales.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for
>>>> audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying
>>>> CPU load).
>>>>
>>>> It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best
>>>> is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This
>>>> serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer
>>>> downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before
>>>> copying all work files to it).
>>>>
>>>> Greetings from Sweden
>>>>
>>>> Per Boysen
>>>> www.boysen.se
>>>> www.perboysen.com
>>>> www.looproom.com internet music hub
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo
>>>> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello people,
>>>>
>>>> im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad
>>>>
>>>> core for audio recording purposes.
>>>>
>>>> The thing i need to consider before buying is:
>>>>
>>>> would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB?
>>>>
>>>> would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software
>>>>
>>>> in one and your recordings into the second partition?
>>>>
>>>> or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your
>>>> files?
>>>>
>>>> which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you
>>>>
>>>> give me a link to professional reliable ones?
>>>>
>>>> the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my
>>>>
>>>> RME FW800 plugged in
>>>>
>>>> that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one
>>>>
>>>> would you recomend that have combinations of USBs and FW?
>>>>
>>>> so far ive found this one :
>>>>
>>>> http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941
>>>>
>>>> thanx for your help!
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Luis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> www.luis-angulo.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.luis-angulo.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> www.luis-angulo.com
>>
>
>
--
www.luis-angulo.com