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Old 28th February 2010   #3
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Originally Posted by Mike Brown View Post
I have been doing 75+ tracks as a 7.1 submix fairly regularly on a 3 year old Mac Book Pro (2.4 Ghz) with 4 gigs of ram and eSATA drives on a PTLE system....

I don't think the gig of ram would be THAT much of a difference... Where are you playing your tracks back from? I would recommend on an eSATA connection or FW800 minimum...

Any other info you can give us on your rig so we can narrow down the choke point?
Thanks a lot for your response Mike!
The best result Ive obtained is on a Dell with an Intel Core 2 Duo 3 RAM. Not very sure of the processor but two days ago I installed a RAID 0 made of two 500GB 7k2 drives running not with a RAID card but with the BIOS setting (software?)

I use a Mytek 8x192 via FW, mixing in the box with outaboard gear.
I tried to mix even by using 2048 as buffer size.

Ive also tried external FW Drives.
I am about to buy an SSD drive to see what happens but Im tired of not being to work normally.

Cheers,
Pupo
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