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| ziptnf |
I had a similar problem with Traktor and a drive that is also much like the one you had. Idk if I'm really digging this My Passport thing, it seems a little ridiculous for the price and the gigs.
Here's a much better deal. No external power supply, and so far I have had no problems with Traktor.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16822136540
Edit: yes, that does say 1 terabyte. :p |
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| woscar |
| Thanks, but I guess I forgot to mention that I need a Firewire 800 drive. The Macbook Pro only has 2 USB 2.0 ports which are already taken by the Audio4DJ and the Vestax VCI-100. That's why it seems expensive, Firewire drives always are. :p |
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| bas |
| What kind of audio drops are you having? Is the drive actually disconnecting and reconnecting? It could be a matter of upping your latency a bit more (I know you already did). |
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| ziptnf |
Mac fail.
I would say get a USB hub for a few extra bucks, but I'm afraid your equipment might not be getting enough power with one of those, which could result in a laggy VCI-100 or a slow harddrive, which you want neither.
No clue then. I guess the one you picked out might be okay. |
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| bas |
| Actually, a USB hub would work quite well. If I recall correctly, Brett has one on his laptop for him + Andrei's drives plus their controller + audio8. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Actually, a USB hub would work quite well. If I recall correctly, Brett has one on his laptop for him + Andrei's drives plus their controller + audio8. |
I just saw one on newegg where a customer suggested that his external drive was very laggy when connected to a hub. Perhaps your soundcard will function properly if connected to the hub? That way the other two important pieces of equipment would be directly connected to the motherboard. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
1) get a hub, specifically one that has its own power supply (it has it's own seperate AC adapter and doesn't adopt power via the USB cable from the computer run on sentence run on sentence)
2) vinyl 1, digital 0 |
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| w_ashley |
My two cents is to get a smaller drive. That will hold the 20 or 30 tracks you wanna use in tracktor.
http://www.nextag.com/OCZ-60GB-Vert...888/prices-html
$180
60gb drive
ocz v2
enough to save your sets music.
Do not write and rewrite on the drives or add data it slows them down.
Do your track editing on a non solid state storage drive, then when you have finalized it for archive on your play drive transfer it.
You can of course buy an older model, or wait for the price to come down in a bit. As $180 is a lot for a hobby. If it is tax deductable though.... Oddly though this might be the price of a vinyl set with 20 or 30 tracks easily. If you don't have promo or pool mailings.
When your drive is "full" buy another. You can keep your old tracks on the SSD like a tape (audio cassette).
Then start all over with your new drive.
You can also keep your non real time retreival drives handy for all those "other tracks and samples" that you might just use but probably won't. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
My two cents is to get a smaller drive. That will hold the 20 or 30 tracks you wanna use in tracktor.
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Get out. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
My two cents is to get a smaller drive. That will hold the 20 or 30 tracks you wanna use in tracktor. |
I have a feeling woscar plays more than 20 or 30 tracks.
#1) ing ripoff
#2) it's not firewire compatible (you should really read threads before responding)
#3) 60 gigabytes is ing childs play, I literally just posted a drive that had almost 15x the space than the one you did, that is also 70 bucks cheaper.
| quote: | | Do not write and rewrite on the drives or add data it slows them down. |
Why the not? Harddrives are designed for writing and rewriting, how in the hell do you think operating systems work?
| quote: | | Do your track editing on a non solid state storage drive, then when you have finalized it for archive on your play drive transfer it. |
Why does it matter if it's solid state?
| quote: | | You can of course buy an older model, or wait for the price to come down in a bit. As $180 is a lot for a hobby. If it is tax deductable though.... Oddly though this might be the price of a vinyl set with 20 or 30 tracks easily. If you don't have promo or pool mailings. |
This is definitely NOT tax deductible :stongue:
| quote: | When your drive is "full" buy another. You can keep your old tracks on the SSD like a tape (audio cassette).
Then start all over with your new drive.
You can also keep your non real time retreival drives handy for all those "other tracks and samples" that you might just use but probably won't. |
Do you realize that we're living in 2010? |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
When your drive is "full" buy another.
You can also keep your non real time retreival drives handy for all those "other tracks and samples" that you might just use but probably won't. |
holy stop using quotation marks. |
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