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15th September 2009
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 38
Thread Starter | Managing 2 Computers...
Hi all, I am looking at a setup where I use a laptop to take on the road with me that can run projects that were made on my Mac Pro at home (and vice versa). However, I'm a little caught up in deciding how to best do this. I currently have 3 drives on my Mac Pro - 1 for DAW, 1 for Samples, and 1 for my project files. I want to be able to create projects on my laptop and have them open on my Mac Pro without having to search for the streamed samples, etc.. I was originally thinking of cloning the DAW and Sample drive and running that on an external to my laptop, but I'm not sure about the performance hit I'd take having to run both the DAW and stream samples from 1 hard drive. Any of you folks with a similar setup have any advice on this situation? |
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15th September 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Northwest USA
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You didn't mention what DAW you were using, but Logic handles aliases fine in my experience (for folders its expecting to see.)
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15th September 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Dallas, TX USA
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eSATA external drive
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16th September 2009
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2009
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So is it not really too big of an issue if I'm running my DAW (Logic) and streaming samples from the same drive?
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16th September 2009
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Dallas, TX USA
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BTW, if your on a MacBookPro then you would want a firewire 800 drive. That way you wouldn't have to buy an eSata card for your MacPro (which I don't think you can use with Mac laptops). You didn't say what kind of laptop. Also, if you are talking about using sample based instruments, you should remember that often the samples will (at least partially) be loaded to RAM. Max out your RAM. |
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17th September 2009
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2009
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Awesome, thanks for the responses guys. I haven't actually decided yet on which laptop, drive, etc. but I'm most likely looking at a Macbook Pro and a external with a multi interface (preferably with FW800 and eSata). This way I can backup from my Mac Pro and then use eSata for a little bump in speed when I use the macbook. So I guess I should settle on a fairly large drive (~1.5TB, 2TB?) and then partition it into two separate spaces to clone my Logic and Sample HDs? |
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20th September 2009
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2009
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bump for a double check for folks who've partitioned drives to successfully work as separate clone drives
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