Capturing Audio onto HD

[Monkey Allen]

What do you do?

Capture/ record audio directly to your main HD or capture/ record it to a slave HD?

I know a lot of people use a slave drive to hold their audio files. But I never know if they mean that they use it as the drive that is written to or if they use the slave HD as the drive where project files and audio files eventually get stored once they are finished mixing and mastering.

thanks

[bennychico11]

written and stored on a separate drive
generally you want to keep the audio drive separate from your system drive (which will contain the audio program you're using too). this way theoretically will result in less errors. If you had everything on one drive you'd be streaming info from the OS, the program you're using AND however many tracks (with a big session, this can be a lot). This can take up a lot of throughput on your drive and slow things down. and if you're writing to a drive...you don't want to slow things down otherwise it can resul in errors.

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by Monkey Allen

What do you do?

Capture/ record audio directly to your main HD or capture/ record it to a slave HD?

I know a lot of people use a slave drive to hold their audio files. But I never know if they mean that they use it as the drive that is written to or if they use the slave HD as the drive where project files and audio files eventually get stored once they are finished mixing and mastering.

thanks

I'm not a computer jock but the standard advice is to record on a second HD that is master on the secondary IDE channel.

[Monkey Allen]

Thanks everyone. I tried to set up a 2nd sata drive acting as a slave to another sata where the OS was. However, I ran into problems with the SP2/ firewire conflicts and I ended up with "Delayed Write Failed" messages. The problem was that SP2 glitched firewire ports by restricting the amount of data that could be captured by 1/8th of real capabilities.

My audio card is a Presonus Firebox (firewire)

Anyway, I have since found a hotfix which addresses this SP2/ firewire problem, but I haven't been game to set my software to capture the audio to the slave. I figured that if SP2 and firewire were having conflicts, then it would be even worse trying to feed that firewire audio signal into a slave drive.

Anyway, it seems to be capturing no problem to my main 160gig drive. So, maybe one day soon I will reconfigure the capture back to my slave and see how I go.