VIs are ok but some load faster if on the System drive (SampleTank especially) but, once loaded, there's no disadvantage. a 4TB WD Blue runs $449 and 2TB is under $200.Įxternal drives are for archiving projects. You can get SATA III SSDs up to 8TB - a lot slower than the above but much faster than any mechanical HDD. The fastest for your system is a slow NVMe blade such as the Crucial P2 ($225 for 2TB) in a PCIe card (you don't have a 4-lane PCI bus so a fast NVMe blade such as the 970 EVO is a waste of money). That will get expensive fast.ĭP (and all your apps) and your active projects work best on your system drive-and have since Apple introduced SATA with the G5 nineteen years ago. I'm gong to make sure that Mac is maxed out on RAM, but maybe its time to invest in a new computer - which will then force upgrades of some of my HW peripherals, like dominos. The tradeoff is that the sounds of these lower load instruments takes away from some of the excitement of recording these tracks, but its worth the tradeoff for accurate MIDI recording. So now, to avoid MIDI delays, I have to record MIDI basic tracks using EZ drummer and LITE versions of the EW piano (or better yet, but less playable, the default piano setting on my MIDI controller), with other VIs disabled until I need them. The load was was a little too much for my trusty 2012 studio Mac Pro, and the result was MIDI recording latency. Long story short, my default template loads Superior Drummer 3, EW platinum piano, and a few other VIs and FX plug-ins with default patches I frequently use. The audio delays can be compensated for with an offset (can't remember the specifics, I'm not in front of the studio computer, but its in the manual), but the MIDI delay was driving me nuts. I spent hours just recently trying to solve recording latency problems with both MIDI and Audio recording delays.
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