Josh Emmons wrote: > > Mike Newman wrote: > > I'll be using Logic and EXS24 for the first time with the release of > > Logic 6. I have a Dual GIG G4 with 1.5 GIG Ram and two 80 GIG hard > > drives. I have about 50 GIG worth of Sample CD-ROMs and will be using > > the Vienna Symphonic Library EXS24 Edition Complete Orchestral > > Package when it's released next month. > > Here's the deal: partitioning a drive is not really going to help you > (as far as I know/have been able to tell by playing around) when it > comes to playing samples/bounding audio. In fact, partitioning a drive > could exasperate the problem. If you have only one drive I would definitely partition it and put all audio files and samples together in an audio partition. On PC you would format this partition to the largest cluster size available --64kb in Win2k and XP for example. This partition can then be defragged in seconds and will perform better than a single system partition formatted with small cluster sizes and with the audio and apps and system spread all over it. > > What you want to do is make sure that each part of your workflow that > requires harddrive access has it's own drive (and, ideally, it's own > bus, though that's not really as important with reasonably low-bandwidth > samples). These are good principles to follow -- if you have a RAID card you could put streaming samples on the RAID array, audio files on an audio drive and the system and Logic on the system drive. > > The average EXS24 setup has three parts that require drive access. > There's the part that runs the OS and loads the actual Logic and EXS24 > software. There's the part that loads samples. Then there's the part > the loads/writes/ the song. > > It sounds as though you have two internal 80Gig drives, right? Here's > what you should do. Install Logic on the same drive that has your > operating system on it. Install all your samples onto the other drive. > Then buy a fast firewire drive, plug it into you computer, and save > your song files there. Unless by song files you mean the audio files for the song I think you are mistaken here. The song file (often less than a MB) resides in RAM and only gets written to disk when you save. It places no demands on drive performance. The audio files that you are streaming from disk -- including bounced or frozen tracks as well as recorded audio inputs -- they will benefit from a separate drive, preferably on a separate channel. Regards, Murray