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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 22556" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Re: Windoze tweeks for firewire audio recording</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>Tim, it's not as complicated as it used to be, since most computers these days have quite a bit of power to spare. You can pick up a decent quad-core rig for less than $1000 new, and considerably less used (I just sold one for $350). </p><p></p><p>Make sure there is absolutely NO antivirus, antispyware, or any other "anti-" software on the computer, as these will cause significant disk overhead, especially for big file I/O operations like recording.</p><p></p><p>If using Windows 7, I'd put the theme on "Windows 7 Basic" to save all the CPU from being wasted on 3D accelerating the desktop.</p><p></p><p>If you use an external hard drive, it SHOULD NOT be USB! USB is extremely slow compared to a hard drive, and will probably be a bottleneck for high track counts. I highly recommend a eSATA drive (sometimes hard to get recognized, but once connected will work well) or a Firewire drive. However, I've sometimes had issues having two high-bandwidth Firewire devices on the same card. Make sure you experiment in the shop first with a worst-case track count for at least a few hours.</p><p></p><p>The computer part has always been easy in my experience; it's digital sync that always seems to kill me, especially over ADAT. Fortunately you shouldn't have that issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 22556, member: 34"] Re: Windoze tweeks for firewire audio recording Tim, it's not as complicated as it used to be, since most computers these days have quite a bit of power to spare. You can pick up a decent quad-core rig for less than $1000 new, and considerably less used (I just sold one for $350). Make sure there is absolutely NO antivirus, antispyware, or any other "anti-" software on the computer, as these will cause significant disk overhead, especially for big file I/O operations like recording. If using Windows 7, I'd put the theme on "Windows 7 Basic" to save all the CPU from being wasted on 3D accelerating the desktop. If you use an external hard drive, it SHOULD NOT be USB! USB is extremely slow compared to a hard drive, and will probably be a bottleneck for high track counts. I highly recommend a eSATA drive (sometimes hard to get recognized, but once connected will work well) or a Firewire drive. However, I've sometimes had issues having two high-bandwidth Firewire devices on the same card. Make sure you experiment in the shop first with a worst-case track count for at least a few hours. The computer part has always been easy in my experience; it's digital sync that always seems to kill me, especially over ADAT. Fortunately you shouldn't have that issue. [/QUOTE]
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