Removeable harddrive or just CD burner?

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If I decided to get ProTools LE, and let's say I recored most of my material at a real ProTools TDM Studio, so I can finish the rest on my home computer. Can I Burn the Info on a CD-RW, or do I need a removeable harddrive?

If I need a Removeable HD, what type; can I just buy a Maxtor external harddrive?

Glyph sell removeable HD's, but the prices are through the ROOF!




Thanks for your input! :D
 
One problem is that most pro-tools set ups are mac, while judging from some of your other posts, you're getting a PC. I've encountered problems transfering audio from PC to Mac (though not the other way around). If you get a removeable HD, you have to make sure that both computers are configured to handle it. You can get kits to set up a removable IDE HD bay - they cost about $15 per HD. Otherwise you can go for SCSI hot swap - and pay $$ up the a**. Finaly you can get a USB HD for not too much more than a regular IDE. But any kind of swappable HD is definitely going to have issues going from mac to pc.
 
Thanks for responding... So I guess that means that I can't use a CD-RW...


By the way, What happens to the audio when transfering from Mac to PC? Does it screw it up sonicly?
 
In theory you can use CDRs. I have had some porblems getting mac audio programs to read my PC audio files - even when I convert to aiff. I don't know if it's an issue with the CDR format or with the files themselves. Programs like protools are supposed to be able to read both wav and aiff files. Mac OS is very quircky, you can't force a program to try and open a file (like you can in windows with the 'open with' command, or by manually changing the file extension). My problem was that protools either didn't recognize the files , or opened 24bit files as 16 bit .

I had this problem at a mastering studio. I ended up having to bring in my PC, and feed directly to their DA converter from the SPIDIF on my soundcard. It was not a good situation - I have a feeling the final product suffered as a result. Now I loathe everything Macintosh for its general incompatibility with everything.

Some people think that Apple is a more independent - less monopolistic platform. But Apple- to its detriment - has adopted a much more closed and less competitive philosphy than MS. I say the best thing about MS Windows is that it has saved us from living under an Apple monopoly - which would have been far worse.
 
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