ryst Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I read over at Unicornation that "streaming app libraries should never share drives." Is this true? If so, why? I have BFD, EWQLSO Gold, and I will have a few other apps soon. So I need separte hard drives for each of these apps?????? What's a poor man to do?? www.myspace.com/apocrypha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 That's the recommendation, true. There's LOTS of data being sent over the bus. You don't want dropouts or delays. On the other hand, I would like to hear from someone on the forum regarding their actual experiences with this. Tom "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Doe Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 It would make more sense for the drives not to share controllers. If you have two seperate drives that are running off the same controller you have the same problem. Better yet, get SATA. No signature required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryst Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 ...So I need to make sure BFD has it's own hard drive? I need to make sure that EWQLSO Gold has it's own hard drive? And if I get Ivory or something similar it also needs it's own hard drive? And everything else that streams up and down the digital shit creek needs it's own hard drive? What about Kontakt? Do I need a spearate drive for Kontakt samples too? www.myspace.com/apocrypha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Doe Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I suspect they mean that concurrently run applications that do a lot of streaming type disk I/O should use different drives. If so, the drives should idealy be on seperate disk controllers as well. Most PC's come with at least two IDE controllers which can support up to 2 IDE devices (HD,CD-om, tape, etc.). It's common to set up the primary IDE controller with a HD and a CD-Rom, then put a secondary HD and CD-RW on the secondary IDE controller. How likely is it that you'll be using more than two applications simultaneously to stream data to the HD drives? No signature required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryst Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 Jon Doe, So as long as I am not using BFD and EWQLSO Gold at the same time, they can co-exist on the same drive without issues? And that rules applies pretty much with any sample library that streams off the hard disk? If I buy more drives I will be getting firewire drives because i can only have 2 drives in my G5 without an expensive hack. www.myspace.com/apocrypha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblue1 Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 ryst How do you like BFD? It's probably the only new product I've seen in a couple years that fires me up. The samples on their website mostly sound pretty good (there was a ride sample that sounded a bit mechanical in its cutoffs) but how do you like working with it? bookmark these: news.google.com | m-w dictionary | wikipedia encyclopedia | Columbia Encyclopedia TK Major / one blue nine | myspace.com/onebluenine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Doe Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Originally posted by ryst: Jon Doe, So as long as I am not using BFD and EWQLSO Gold at the same time, they can co-exist on the same drive without issues? And that rules applies pretty much with any sample library that streams off the hard disk? If I buy more drives I will be getting firewire drives because i can only have 2 drives in my G5 without an expensive hack. right. The problem is the actual bit streaming. You can have consistency problems while bitstream recording from two apps to the same drive at the same time. This is true of both audio and video streaming(while recording). Those apps (or the websites of their company) should have some FAQ's about best practices for achieving good recording results. No signature required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryst Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 theblue1, I like it a lot, actually. The interface is great and the concept is really cool. I love the big ambient drum sound and you can definitly get them with BFD. I just need another gig of ram and I will be set. Also, I am ordering XFL this week which has 22 gigs of more sounds for the BFD. The one thing I don't care about are the grooves. I have never sequenced acoustic drums and I don't ever plan on it. I was able to make my DR-660 sound pretty real so BFD is a major step forward for me for recording realisic drum parts. It seems to work fine in Live4 and DP4.5. The fxpansion demos on their site sound very boring and unreal. But you can get great drum parts if you know what you are doing. www.myspace.com/apocrypha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Clematide Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 that's how i work: 2 HHD on RAID (IDE ATA) 2 HHD in cartridges (IDE ATA) 4 HHD USB 2.0 pluged in 1 HHD IEEE 1394 (firewire) Video: HD one on RAID stores the rendering [system (C:)] HD two on RAID delivers the video HD USB delivers the sound for the video HD IEEE 1394 delivers surround channels Audio: (Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, WaveLab) HD one in the cartridge delivers half the sample library HD two in the cartridge delivers other half of the sample library HD two on RAID delivers the video no drop outs. Also no drop outs when all samples come from one cartridge. -Peace, Love, and Potahhhhto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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