Dermich Prenoob Joined: 00:30:59 Messages: 6 Offline I'm about to make my final decision on the computer to buy to run a FireStudio Project. I'm annoyed that Apple's taken all but one FireWire port off the new iMacs, because the Thunderbolt external hard drive solutions as of now are ridiculous and I obviously can't rely on the internal HD to record.
Anyone successfully daisy chaining a FireWire hard drive through the FireStudio Project on a new iMac? Are there any other issues I should consider? I have friends who have problems with FireWire devices falling asleep and requiring a reboot occasionally on their iMacs. Wonder if that's a concern here as well. Thanks for any advice.
Mar 28, 2018 - The best HDD/SSD solutions for Logic Pro X users, content creators and more. Online about any drive falling or ruining a recording session at some point or another. Priced HDD will more than suffice just about any home project studio. Loads of external solid state drives to your Mac via Thunderbolt. Why Thunderbolt will be the I/O of Choice for Digital Musicians and Video Artists. Rounik Sethi on Mar 03, 2011 in Audio. Since 2008 if you wanted to buy a portable Mac setup with high-speed connectivity, the 17' was the only option. A Firewire 800 is used for an external hard drive to record to and my trusty Apogee Duet is connected to.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 00:39:30. Monolithent Supreme Baconator Joined: 18:47:25 Messages: 13464 Location: Central New Jersey Offline A USB hard drive is actually a better choice for most folks. This way it keeps your firewire dealing with only the interface. If you chain it in with the drive you're effectively doubling the amount of information trying to stream through the firewire bus.
It's been known to cause issues. And a 7200RPM USB2 drive is much easier to find and works just fine all the way up to like 32 channels that I've tested.
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StudioLive 16.4.2, AudioBox 1818VSL, AudioBox 44VSL, Faderport, Digimax FS, M-Audio Firewire 410 -MultiBoot System- Win Vista 64/XP Pro/7 x86/7 x64 - Mac OSX Snow Leopard/Lion Gigabyte motherboard-SYBA TI Firewire XIO2200A-i7 2600k Quad Core-16 GB DDR III-Custom 2U Rackmount-4 TB Raid (all internal SATA II)-19' Samsung HDMI LCD on pivoting VESA 1U Mount Studio One v1 Pro x64 Studio One v1 Artist Studio One v2 Artist. Minnikin32 Presonic Joined: 00:14:45 Messages: 136 Location: North East UK Offline I have a 2011 iMac, and have great success with a FW800 external HDD connected to the iMac, then using a FW800-FW400 cable from the drive to my SL16 or my FS Mobile. I'm hoping that Thunderbolt hardware comes down in price eventually. The bandwidth is outstanding and running an external RAID 1+0 would be superb, just it's really expensive at the moment. However, as Mono has said, USB2 drives are also fine. I was surprised how well it worked when I tried it. LIVE/MOBILE RECORDING RIG Presonus StudioLive 16:4:2 JBL PRX612M x 2 dB Technologies SUB15 x 4 Apple iPad 1G 16GB WiFi Apple Mac Mini 2010 (P8600, OSX 10.7.4, 8GB DDR3, 256GB Crucial M4 SSD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Apple Airport Express (802.11n version) HOME RIG Apple iMac 27' 2011 (2.7GHz i5 Quad, OSX 10.7.4, 16GB DDR3, 256GB Intel SSD, 1TB HDD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Presonus Firestudio Mobile Presonus Firestudio Project.
Brianmbremer Presonic Joined: 04:25:02 Messages: 116 Location: Minneapolis, MN Offline I asked a similar question in another post and I think Monolithent gave a similar answer (A+ for consistency!). But since minnikin32 mentioned he was successful in running Macfw800HDDfw800400interface, I might give it a try. My Western Digital USB HDD is much older, noisier and less stable than my nearly-new LaCie FW HDD. Minnikin32.do you get equal performance from your interface in terms of latency (i.e. Directly connected vs. Daisy-chained above?). Do you get FW800 write speeds (or close) on your HDD with no negative impact on interface speed, latency, etc?
I have a FSProject, so I assume your FSMobile results will be similar. Recording gear: - Presonus Studio One 2 - Presonus FireStudio Project - Blue Bluebird - Audio Technica AT3035 - Blue Encore 100 - Audio Technica Pro 4L MacBook Pro - Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 - Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 256 MB - OS: Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 Instruments: - Martin DC-16RGTE - Fender American Deluxe Telecaster - Epiphone PR-100 - Kurzweil SP88x Stage Piano - Fender '65 Princeton Reverb Vintage Reissue.
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Minnikin32 Presonic Joined: 00:14:45 Messages: 136 Location: North East UK Offline It doesn't seem to affect FW bandwidth at all this way. It's almost like the FW chipset is cleverly sharing the bandwidth like a managed network switch. I can record 16 channels from the SL to Capture no problem this way, and play them back no trouble. When I have the FSM setup, I can be playing back 32 or more tracks from the FW HDD and doesn't affect the audio on the FSM at all. Just a note, it hated the HDD being FAT formatted.
It locked up and hindered he performance so much it was completely unusable. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted and it worked like a dream. LIVE/MOBILE RECORDING RIG Presonus StudioLive 16:4:2 JBL PRX612M x 2 dB Technologies SUB15 x 4 Apple iPad 1G 16GB WiFi Apple Mac Mini 2010 (P8600, OSX 10.7.4, 8GB DDR3, 256GB Crucial M4 SSD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Apple Airport Express (802.11n version) HOME RIG Apple iMac 27' 2011 (2.7GHz i5 Quad, OSX 10.7.4, 16GB DDR3, 256GB Intel SSD, 1TB HDD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Presonus Firestudio Mobile Presonus Firestudio Project. Brianmbremer Presonic Joined: 04:25:02 Messages: 116 Location: Minneapolis, MN Offline Thanks, minnikin32. I forgot to ask.which files are critical to store on the external hard drive?
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I would assume only the folder that contains the songs (on a Mac it would be Documents Studio One Songs). Is there any reason to include the.soundset files? It also seems like in V2 of Studio One, most of the stock presets/sounds/plugins are stored within the Studio One app itself. Recording gear: - Presonus Studio One 2 - Presonus FireStudio Project - Blue Bluebird - Audio Technica AT3035 - Blue Encore 100 - Audio Technica Pro 4L MacBook Pro - Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 - Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 256 MB - OS: Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 Instruments: - Martin DC-16RGTE - Fender American Deluxe Telecaster - Epiphone PR-100 - Kurzweil SP88x Stage Piano - Fender '65 Princeton Reverb Vintage Reissue.
Brianmbremer wrote:Thanks, minnikin32. I forgot to ask.which files are critical to store on the external hard drive? I would assume only the folder that contains the songs (on a Mac it would be Documents Studio One Songs). Is there any reason to include the.soundset files? It also seems like in V2 of Studio One, most of the stock presets/sounds/plugins are stored within the Studio One app itself.
I normally save entire songs/projects on the external HDD when I'm recording or working on them. Preset files and similar files are indeed just stored with the DAW (I use Logic Pro, but I'm pretty sure it's the same with S1). Any preset files I'd like to transfer in between my setups I also store on the external HDD, or a USB flash drive. The main reason I use an external HDD like this is that with my recordings, more than one person is working on it. But we all use the same external drive.
I make regular backups to other drives and I use the Gobbler service for further backups too. That way we don't have to try and merge songs and projects, and we always have a backup incase something goes wrong. LIVE/MOBILE RECORDING RIG Presonus StudioLive 16:4:2 JBL PRX612M x 2 dB Technologies SUB15 x 4 Apple iPad 1G 16GB WiFi Apple Mac Mini 2010 (P8600, OSX 10.7.4, 8GB DDR3, 256GB Crucial M4 SSD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Apple Airport Express (802.11n version) HOME RIG Apple iMac 27' 2011 (2.7GHz i5 Quad, OSX 10.7.4, 16GB DDR3, 256GB Intel SSD, 1TB HDD) Apple Logic Pro 9 Presonus Firestudio Mobile Presonus Firestudio Project » Go to.
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We’ll be putting together a complete video tutorial on this in the near future. For now here are some valuable doscuments that G-tech has put together to assist Windows users. The first thing you will need to do is download the Windows Thunderbolt drivers for your G-Tech G-RAID or G-Speed. The list below will take you to the download and support page on the G-Tech website for your drive. G-RAID with Thunderbolt:.
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