Thanks JK (you Superstar
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Good tip about the sequential reading and fragmentation
Two things I dont totally understand though ....
1) the audio(bounces)/projects drive will probably be fragmented because I do edit samples (with cubase offline processing) after creating them (and sometimes after long periods of working on other projects) .... But I can always defrag it regularly ... Do u thing a regular defrag will do the trick ?
2) not sure what you mean by "Use plats a key role in the performance you get." ...
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(do u mean keeping the data streamlined - beyond the bare HW specs ?
Anyway - I am currently more on the "many small samples" side of things - once I have all that HDD realestate I will probably get lazy and start bouncing whole tracks (with the silent parts) - instead of going around and bouncing the small blocks that make up the existing parts of the arrangement - and avoiding the silent/empty parts ....
Thats why I thought the improvements in "seek time" would be the dominant factor ... And "double bandwidth" in the sense that you can stream two streams from different locations on the HDD simultaneously ....
3) I am not sure if I currently have the budget for keeping my samples on an SSD at the mo ... (I actually dont have so many HUGE libraries - and I mostly copy the samples to the project's audio folder anyway - but I will definately keep it in mind as now, with Win7 and 64bit I am entering Mega-Samplers territory ...
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I do plan to keep SCOPE and all the devices/projects on the main OS SSD (250GB) though ... Possibly along with the cubase dir ....
Thanks Again
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