Replace Your Hard Drives With Solid State Drives The point is to save all your sessions on a separate drive and pull from that when recording and mixing. Of course, if you (like me) have two internal hard drives in your computer then you don’t need an external drive. Keep it clean and separate and you’ll get better performance. Much like studios used to have tape machines and consoles each doing their own thing, you should have a separate hard drive feeding your DAW audio and not combine the two. Why? Because it will free your system drive up to just run the software, plugins, and OS.
Instead, hook up a USB, Firewire, or Thunderbolt drive that is used only for recording to.
Do not record to or mix from your internal system drive, the same hard drive that has your operating system and DAW installed on it. Record To (And Mix From) An External Drive And then just this month I doubled it again to 16GB. And great tutorials/support.įor example – my Mac Mini came with 4GB of RAM 5 years ago. Since I’m a Mac guy, I’ll point you to my favorite place to buy RAM for my Macs and that is OWC (Other World Computing).
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Since third party memory is both so cheap and easy to install or swap out, this is the obvious place to start. These days, most DAWs can take all the RAM you through at them, giving you more power and quicker response in a dense mix. This was because the operating systems and DAWs weren’t 64 bit, and they could only allot a certain amount of RAM (memory) to any one program at a given time. In the “old” days of DAWs – how much RAM you had really didn’t’ matter.
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In fact there are some strategic things you can do (or upgrade) to optimize your Mac or PC to be a beast of a DAW machine. I did, however, just do some upgrades to it that have helped a lot. In fact, as of this writing I’m still rocking a 6 year old Mac Mini in my studio. The computer you already have is probably fine. I gave them Apple's phone # and wished them luck.Do you really need the most expensive Mac or PC to handle big track counts and lots of plugins in your home studio?
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all except two have gone the upgrade route and all are having some sort of problems that they didn't have before. I use to have over a dozen clients whose machines I helped upgrade and maintain. 10.6.8 still feels light on it feet and I'm having no problems so why bother. Recent versions of OSX are resource intensive, way more than Windows machines at this time, at least with Windows you have options to adjust cache and virtual memory size and with a little tweaking can end up with a very efficient system. I have a rock solid MacPro single quad core processor running Snow Leopard, Logic 9 and RME hardware, I've decided to jump off the Apple upgrade band wagon, I see only more problems ahead. one look at this board proves that, even long time users are having some problems with the recent hardware/OS/application updates. Since operating system have become a do-it-all system, getting everything to work correctly takes more time and more expertise. You have some good points, and I agree with some of what you're saying.