I tried partitioning that drive off and saving there, but keep getting the error. My internal drive is a standard gb HD. Thanks for any advice! Thanks for the kind words! The thing with Native Instruments such as Kontakt is that they load all the samples for a given instrument into RAM to give to best performance, so as a start while the samples are stored on the USB drive they will still be pulled onto your systems resources.
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head which could help is that instruments such as Kontakt feature a button which will purge unused samples, but then again if you have a lot of these kind of instruments running that may not make too much difference. Hey I need some help picking an external hard drive to use I have a home studio where I basically record and do a quick mix before I send it of to professionals. Which type would best benefit me.
Also I have Superior Drummer 2. In general It will be a good DAW to produce music? Thanks in advance! The LaCie Thunderbolt drive would be perfect for that kind of work and you may have even noticed on their website that they state that Pro Tools will work well with it as well. I would say running Pro Tools from your internal drive and then using that external to record and playback from would be a great setup indeed!
What I can say is that a plug-in of that kind involves lots of samples being read quickly so can be very processor hungry etc. Just a quick question on this. I recently purchased a MacBook pro using Mavericks and will be using it for audio recording.
I wish to purchase an external ssd not hybrid that will work with this Mac. Just confused on whether it should be sata or esata, does it matter?
I believe esata is faster. It has a 2. I have heard different takes on where I should be saving the files to and where I should be running the session from.
The HDD you mention running at rpm will happily transfer both audio material as well as running the software itself, but for very top performance it is best to have a dedicated drive that handles running the software and another to handle the reading and writing of the sound, and if you can have them both doing that at a good speed then you are on to a winner.
Hi there I am in a struggle at the moment for which option of dedicated external recording device to opt for. Both have thunderbolt connection so the real decision I have to make is between either getting a SDD with less storage space or stick with a spinning drive with more storage.
Thanks for stopping by! I would say if you can cope with the storage size offered by the SSD then definitely go for that over the spinning drive, the speed difference is very much worth it in my opinion plus with that amount of reading and writing that is going on they are more likely to last as well.
Already have a 4tb raid home system. Problems for protools user are different compared to rest. Using MacBook pro. So where is the t. Hello, I am going to be running pro tools 11 on a macbook pro, and am curious as to the pros and cons of running the session files off a usb 3. I would prefer the portability of a flash drive but will I be making sacrifices that could cause issues? Id appreciate your input, thanks. When you say running the session files from the drive I presume you are talking about running the audio information etc through that as well, not just the actual session?
If your main focus is portability, I would recommend looking at a firewire SSD enclosure from which you can put in whichever drive you require give or take the specs of the enclosure , it is cheaper to buy a hard drive ready to be put in an enclosure and there are lots of tidy and compact units out there which would make your system much more stable while being very portable at the same time. If you could shed any light or share an article that would be awesome!
I know this answer is a bit vague but can only hope it has helped you a little in the mindfield of these queries? Hi Angeli, In terms of compatibility, yes this drive should work without any issues with Pro Tools HD 9, from my experience rpm is better suited to storage and transfer as opposed to running live from it as we discuss in the articles, You are more likely to encounter a jerky transfer in comparison to a rpm.
That being said there is no harm in you trying and see how stable is works with your session. Anyway, my question is: is it wise to upgrade my internal hard drive to a gb flash drive, and run my Western Digital 1Tb rpm external drive for the audio? Kinda new to all this so all comments are welcome. I believe that the arguments as to whether fusion drives are the cause of many DAW issues is still very much in force so we can understand your point!
Well as for processing power, an iMac of that spec should handle a fair amount of work thrown at it. The only issue with flash drives is that constant reading and writing can cause their lifespan to decrease quicker, an issue you will not have by using a separate external drive to read and write your audio to :. So in roundup, yes! This set up sounds like you could have a nice stable system on your hands for some pretty heavy sessions, should you work on them.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Well the first thing that should be noted about Thunderbolt is that it is considerably faster than even USB 3. Quick question…..
I am about to rebuild my Mac Book that crashed on me almost a year ago and reinstall my Pro Tools but also have Final Cut or Adobe Premier on it this time as well.
I have a 1TB external from before…. Hi, As we mention in our article, the idea of using specific hard drives for certain tasks is to reduce the stress on the system doing everything itself.
So to clarify, an external would be a better option to use than a portable? Or can the samples just be on my computers internal. Hi Ali, It depends on your definition of external to portable, the main point to consider is the rate at which the disk drive can be read, the faster rate of reading allows for audio to be read much quicker resulting in smoother running sessions, with technology now days there are some very efficient working external hard drives available which will handle the process with no issues, but where possible if you can make use of an internal hard drive which is connected directly to the computer itself as opposed to via firewire or USB this make for the best option.
Same for your samples, there are no rules in having your audio being recorded to one device and having your samples on another, the key point we are trying to get across is to keep in mind that your computer is running the Pro Tools software itself so, if possible, try and help it run smoothly by letting it focus solely on the software and let other drives handle the storage.
Your email address will not be published. Check prices and ratings on Amazon. It includes a fan to keep your memory safe and equipment cool. Transcend is well-known in the harddrive arena.
Can't go wrong with their products! Which Drive? Best Hard Drive For Pro Tools There are a lot of possibilities when choosing the best drive out there to use with Pro Tools so making the right choice is hard with such a wide palette at hand.
Click here to see reviews and prices for the Glyph Studio external drive on Amazon. Tags: setup. Other useful specs: IK 4. Thank you very much in advance. Kind regards Tom Reply. Stephen Anning. This may be better put in our form where someone else may have tried this previously? Killian FR. And, what should I install on my internal hard drive and on my external hard drive?
Hi Alec, Thanks for getting in touch. Thanks Reply. Hope this helps. Thanks for getting in touch. What if you have only 4gb of ram on w7 should I move plug ins to external hard drive Reply. Hi Marcus, Thanks for the kind words! Hope that helps a little! Trey McGee. Hi Paul, The LaCie Thunderbolt drive would be perfect for that kind of work and you may have even noticed on their website that they state that Pro Tools will work well with it as well.
Let me know how you get on. John Kozlowski. JK Reply. Hope this helps! Yet they are too big to put then on already existing external drive. So can I keep my libraries on TWO dedicated external drives? Lets say, one drive for East-West libraries, second drive for Kontakt libraries third drive for audio projects? Would this work well? Or should I necesarilly keep all my libraries on ONE external drive?
Hi Graham, Thanks for the article. I bought a Lacie external and now save all my sessions onto that drive. Thanks, I just went into the workspace and saw that the external was already set to record, I just changed the internal to playback mode. My computer is flying now because I upgraded the ram. Thanks again Graham.
Great article. Guys, how much of free space should I leave at my libraries external 1 TB drive? Is GB good enough for smooth performance?
Firewire suffers so often hardware incompatibility that it would be crazy to advice this solution without pointing exact devices that work together without problems. On a Mac there are hardly any issues at all. Which one of external drives would you replace with SSD? Libraries or audio? Which of those usually demands more speed? Im a little confused, some people recommends to have libraries on external hard drives, and thats what Im doing now, having contact libraries, clips and multi tracks on external hard drive, but for the read write optimisation should I have to write my audio recorded files on the external hard drive or internal?
Would that improve performance and allow me to use more plug ins? Of course, I also put all my plug-ins on this drive too.
Now, I use to use 3 internal rpm HHD drives. No error messages or anything. I did notice some slow down when working with many tracks and or plug-ins, but everything worked just fine. I cannot believe the improvement this made to my recording and mix sessions!!!! My last project that I just completed had 89 raw audio stems, then of course I add all the busses, plug-ins, etc.
I did notice a little slow up but very little compared to what it use to do!! Just some food for thought, works so well for me, I just had to let you guys know. Thanks Graham, for what you are doing for us guys who are still trying to get better at this mixing thing! Great work u are doing here MR Graham. Please let me realize in order that I may just subscribe. Hi graham. I keep getting stoppages in protools due to cpu overload.
Im doing all the right things,i leave 1 processor free. I dont even use more then 13tracks. My cpu is usually at 50 percent. I cant seem to pinpoint it. Other sessions never stop even with more plug ins.
My mac mini got a clean bill of health at the apple store. I reset my quartet, still happens. Any ideas? I would post this over on the Pro Tools forum duc.
Hi my family member! I wish to say that this post is amazing, great written and come with approximately all important infos. I have 18 tracks with komplete 8 plug-ins on them kontact vst strings, absynth, etc.
Thanks for the quick response Graham. Thanks for all your tips and insight, I have been a follower for awhile now and really appreciate all of the hard work and dedication that you put into this site, keep up the good work! Have you ever heard of that? I definitely use my Glyph as my working drive but I also use the LaCie for less important projects and some storage.
Hi there, this weekend is nice in favor of me, since this point in time i am reading this impressive informative paragraph here at my home. This worked for me. I recently got the Digi and was suddenly having issues with speed during editing. I got a 1 TB external hard drive usb 3.
I had to relink a few audio files but everything is working great! Just make sure you are paying attention to the drive you are writing to and there should be no issues. This blog was… how do you say it? Thanks a lot! I get an error message saying Cache is full. If I use an external hard drive to save my files on, will it fix this?
Excellent post! We will be linking to this particularly great content on our website. Keep up the good writing. Appreciation to my father who shared with me on the topic of this webpage, this web site is genuinely amazing. My brother suggested I would possibly like this blog. He used to be totally right. This submit truly made my day.
You can not imagine simply how much time I had spent for this information! Fantastic goods from you, man. You make it enjoyable and you still take care of to stay it sensible. I cant wait to read much more from you. This is really a tremendous site. Did you hire out a developer to create your theme? Excellent work! Hi friends, its fantastic paragraph concerning teachingand fully defined, keep it up all the time.
I am extremely impressed with your writing abilities as smartly as with the format for your weblog. Is that this a paid subject matter or did you customize it yourself? Either way keep up the nice high quality writing, it is rare to look a nice blog like this one these days..
Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site? My blog is in the very same area of interest as yours and my users would genuinely benefit from some of the information you present here.
Please let me know if this ok with you. Appreciate it! Hey I know this is off topic but I was wondering if you knew of any widgets I could add to my blog that automatically tweet my newest twitter updates. Please let me know if you run into anything. I truly enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to your new updates.
I really like your blog.. Did you design this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you? Fascinating blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere? A design like yours with a few simple tweeks would really make my blog jump out.
Please let me know where you got your design. Many thanks. After checking out a handful of the blog posts on your web page, I really like your way of writing a blog. I book marked it to my bookmark website list and will be checking back soon. Please check out my website too and let me know how you feel. Pretty portion of content. I simply stumbled upon your site and in accession capital to claim that I acquire actually loved account your blog posts.
There is definately a lot to find out about this subject. I love all of the points you have made. Hello there, I think your blog may be having internet browser compatibility problems.
I merely wanted to give you a quick heads up! Besides that, excellent blog! I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two images. Maybe you could space it out better? Hello There. I discovered your weblog the use of msn. That is a very smartly written article. I will be sure to bookmark it and return to learn more of your helpful information. Thanks for the post. Great blog right here! Additionally your website rather a lot up fast!
What host are you the usage of? Can I am getting your affiliate hyperlink in your host? I desire my web site loaded up as quickly as yours lol. Hello, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam responses? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise?
S Apologies for being off-topic but I had to ask! Hmm is anyone else encountering problems with the images on this blog loading? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hello, this weekend is fastidious in favor of me, as this time i am reading this enormous educational piece of writing here at my house. Great goods from you, man. I actually like what you have acquired here, certainly like what you are stating and the way in which you say it.
You make it enjoyable and you still take care of to keep it sensible. This is really a terrific site. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it yourself? Hello there! This post could not be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this page to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read. Many thanks for sharing!
Do you mind if I quote a few of your posts as long as I provide credit and sources back to your blog? My blog site is in the very same area of interest as yours and my visitors would truly benefit from a lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if this okay with you. Problem: In Logic, after stacking a fair amount of tracks and after mixing adding waves plugins which I do often I started getting crackling noises and CPU peaks… System overloading yada-yada… I never had this problem prior to this update.
Is there anything you could advise me to do. Would that be a good idea as well? For pro tools recording to a second drive is very helpful so I can only assume the same would be true for Logic. It is pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all website owners and bloggers made excellent content material as you probably did, the web will be a lot more helpful than ever before.
What if my external hard drive is doing more than one thing albeit on separate partitions. Will I still get the benefits of running sessions on a drive other than my internal? Am I ok with this? Thanks a lot Graham and all the good commenters here. If I were to get a FireWire external Drive. How would I go about connecting to my Mac.
I am actually thankful to the holder of this web page who has shared this fantastic post at at this place. Nice answer back in return of this matter with real arguments and explaining all concerning that. I discovered your blog the usage of msn.
That is a very well written article. Thank you for the post. I will definitely comeback. Can I use Pro Tools 8. Who can give me an answer. I copied all my music files to a portable external hard drive, but, iTunes will not read files from my external hard drive.
Recently, I bought an older Macbook as a 2nd unit in the bedroom I am often bedridden. I use it for playback of movies from an external hard drive without any problems. Is there a player that will read directly from the external hard drive? It would be so much better to be able to simply plug and play on one computer and unplug to then plug and play in another room on my other unit.
Definitely believe that whicch you said. Youur favorite justification appearded to be on the net the easiest thing too be awzre of. You managed to hit the nail upon the top as well as defined out the whole thing without having side-effects , people could take a signal. Have you ever considered creating an ebook or guest authoring on other blogs? I know my visitors would value your work.
Amazing Tool!! I appreciate your blog. Thanks for sharing this post. Hey does using a 64GB flash drive count as an external hard drive, and if so, should I be using it to store my sessions on?
Hey does using a 64GB flash drive count as an external hard drive, and if so, is it a good idea to store sessions on it? Why not transfer the plugins and link them to internal with symbolink? Because when we are recording the main ssd writing so needs to be very fast and at the same time load plug ins from external drive. Or even better link the audio folder from the project to external drive so it reads the audio files as well when is on mixing process.
If recording maybe the audio folder on main ssd. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Simply enter your email below and we'll send it right away:. How will an external drive help? Other perks Not only will having an external drive help system performance, it helps your mobility. Some Options Here just a few options for good external drives to look into.
Fridrikur on February 26, at am. Calvin Muhammad on December 29, at am. Graham on January 5, at pm. Graham on February 26, at am. I am using a NEW macbook pro and I have a firewire port. You are just wrong on so many levels… Please professional or interested professionals who want to record music, do not listen to advice given above. Graham on February 16, at am. Lawrence Lelievre on August 2, at pm. Graham Cochrane on August 3, at am. Evan on December 30, at pm. Kenny on July 30, at pm.
It goes in order from best to worst: Firewire , USB 2. Robert Doti on February 1, at pm. Sarcasm on August 31, at am. Sarcasmville, IL Reply. Darius on October 18, at pm.
Fru on January 18, at am. CNN on January 31, at am. His name is Mr. Sarcasm on January 31, at am. Sarcasm OUT Mr. Elisha on June 15, at am. Tom on January 21, at pm. Graham on January 21, at pm. Memememe on January 19, at am.
Kevin Waddell on March 21, at am. Please do use a firewire drive for W7 and PT9. James on April 16, at pm. Kevin on October 3, at am. Eric on September 23, at pm. As you can imagine this gets messy as my main session is on my external and my rendered files are on my local HD Does anyone know how to change the location settings for rendered Audiosuite sounds?
Thanks Reply. Graham on May 18, at am. Kelvin on February 22, at am. Graham on February 24, at pm. Blaine on July 22, at pm. Graham on July 22, at pm. It definitely helps to keep samples on an external drive! Dakota Knight on August 8, at am. What happens? What is so wrong with the combination?
Graham on August 8, at am. Angel on September 1, at pm. Thanks in advance. God Bless.. Graham on September 1, at pm. If you dont mind me asking, what external drives are you currently using?? JP on September 12, at pm. CP on September 22, at am. Graham on September 22, at am. Graham on March 29, at am. Dominic on June 3, at am. Graham on June 4, at pm. Simon on September 23, at pm. Graham on September 24, at am.
Pro Tools Pro on March 25, at pm. Nate Unfortunately your obvious textbook antisocial personality is self-defeating. Keep up the good work, Graham! Isaac on August 3, at pm. Simon on September 24, at am. Graham on September 24, at pm. Graham on October 1, at pm. Jordan on October 3, at pm. I need help please! Hector on February 1, at pm. How about usb 3. Graham on February 1, at pm.
I would check the avid forum to see if someone has! Cedric on March 29, at pm. Graham on March 29, at pm. Avid recommends Firewire drives. Okay thanks, so how much space do you think I need?? Completely up to you and the size of your sessions.
Get as much space as you can afford I say. Daryl on April 5, at am. Graham on April 5, at am. Kwaghe on October 10, at am. Thanks man Reply.
Graham on October 15, at pm. Alex on April 9, at pm. Cord on April 22, at pm. Good job Graham. Graham on May 20, at pm. Thanks for the encouraging words. Glad to have you around! Brian on July 23, at pm. Thanks for this great tip! Graham on July 24, at pm. Anthony on July 29, at pm.
Graham on July 30, at am. I should mention i am not very experienced with computers, so if you could spell it out in laymens tems , i would be very grateful ,thank you very much tom Reply. Graham on August 1, at pm. Graham on August 2, at pm. Graham Cochrane on August 13, at pm. TOM Reply. Graham on August 5, at pm. Raghunath on August 8, at pm.
Hey Graham, Thanks for this aritcle. Seriously, thanks a lot! Graham on August 8, at pm. Dude, your track sounds WAY better than my first ever recording. So glad my site has helped! Raghunath on August 9, at pm. Thanks a lot man! Luckily my design studio doubles as a fairly decent sounding recording studio.
Michele on September 24, at pm. Graham on September 25, at am. Wayne on October 17, at pm. Rory on November 5, at am. Thanks for your help Rory Reply. Graham on November 6, at pm. Lopes on November 23, at am. Graham Cochrane on November 27, at am. External hard drives via USB work fine for audio drives.
Joshua Krell on December 12, at pm. Michele Mercure on December 13, at am. Joshua Krell on December 13, at pm. Michele Mercure on December 13, at pm. Richard on December 18, at pm.
Best Regards Reply. Shon on December 31, at pm. Thanks for your help in advance! Shon Reply. Richard on January 29, at pm. This is a can of worms as there are so many variables. Erase the drive and reformat How this is to be done should be in PT docs somewhere. May be the fault of the formatting mode chosen.
Journaling can create issues. Some suggest the ugly option of a PT re-install. Jason billings on January 29, at pm. Its all about the clams. Strangely some of the posters here sound like me so the related info is already here. Ervs on February 6, at am. George on February 13, at pm. Thank you, George Reply. Graham Cochrane on February 14, at pm. Either is fine. You can use a FW to cable to hook it all up if needed.
No problem. George on February 14, at pm. Oh cool! George Reply. Sam from OZ on February 26, at am.
Keep up the good work mate, this months Duelling Mix is a fun one! Sam from OZ. Graham on February 27, at pm. Thanks Sam! Sam from Oz on March 15, at pm. Graham on April 15, at pm. Emma on March 5, at am. JMHO Reply. Mason on April 14, at pm. Hey Graham, love the site, been watching the youtube videos. By the way, look for my EP in 6 months! Also, what band is that Christian Rock band with the female singer? I really like her voice.
Mason on April 25, at pm. Thanks Graham! That was who I was referring to. She really does have a beautiful voice. Graham on April 25, at pm. Richard V. Hale on April 25, at pm. Richard Reply. Mason on May 3, at am. Blue Host Review on May 2, at pm. Blue Host Coupon on May 3, at am. However, other factors like reliability, support etc. John V on November 14, at pm. A lot of posts on this, too many to read really.
Let me make 2 points. Jozeph on December 27, at pm. Thank you Graham for all your work and tutorials. Many of them have helped me tremendously. Ben on January 7, at pm. Hi, I am PT user. My question is: I keep my audio files and libraries on two dedicated external drives. Your site is awesome!
0コメント