Thanks for the excellent reply Lotus! Up until now I've been using my buddy's system to record my band. We used a 003 rack daisy chained into a glyph drive. Has worked perfect, but sadly he is moving to colorado and is taking it with him. So I'm building my own! However, glyphs are pretty expensive. In case anyone else reading this is wondering, I asked this question to see if allocating the recording process to a USB drive would be just as effective as daisy chaining a FW harddrive. Have not decided whether I want to stay ith Protools (i.e. upgrade to 10 to use with the profire) or switch to another DAW.
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Originally Posted by Lotus 7  I use a Macbook Pro (2.66 GHz I-7 processor w/4GB RAM) for recording with an Apogee Ensemble. The DAW is Apple Logic Pro. |
I am using a similar setup: MBP 2.66 IntelCore 2 Duo also 4gigs ram. My interface is a now a M-Audio Profire 2626
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I have a few drives which have both firewire and USB interfaces, but I always run them on the USB bus. I feel that the bus loading is lower if the data input and output paths are on separate busses ) reducing the data rate on each bus.
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And here 'bus' is referring to the actual hardware path inside your computer to your physical USB dock?
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Rather than send all 12 tracks back on the firewire bus to the storage device, I'd rather send it to the USB bus mounted drive. Processor loading is about the same having to format for either firewire or USB, but the firewire bus traffic is much lower.
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Exactly what I want to do. One more question: how do you actually tell Logic that the signal is to come in from your Ensemble and recorded via USB? Is this a process that is all handled within Logic itself or elsewhere?