Hello,
I am soon upgrading to a new PC and up to now have happily been using Logic in combination with Pulsar. I also took advantage of the crossover deal to Cubase SX when it was launched last year(seeing it wasn't too expensive) and now I have both Logic and Cubase.
Now this may qualify as a stupid question, but my dilemma is, when I buy my new System should I buy something with a removable drive? On one drive I would have Logic and on another drive I would run Cubase SX, therefore having them running on seperate drives so that they would not conflict with each other and that way I would keep them truly seperate from each other. Or should I not be so anal retentive and have them both installed on the same hard drive because there would be no conflicts?
I realise that partitioning would be a way to deal with this, but let me add that I am not a big fan of partitioning.
Thanks in advance for your response(s).
Logic and Cubase SX all in one machine.
you're absolutely right regarding the partitioning. It doesn't have a single positive influence on the system, but there are a lot of fairytales about the thing.
Some of them I believed myself not too long ago
But you should consider a second drive bay with a removable drive for safety. Current IDE drives are not the most reliable stuff in the world - but on the other hand they are cheap.
cheers, Tom
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Some of them I believed myself not too long ago
But you should consider a second drive bay with a removable drive for safety. Current IDE drives are not the most reliable stuff in the world - but on the other hand they are cheap.
cheers, Tom
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Astral Fridge Magnet
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Just to respond to Abre. I guess the only real reason I would use both programs is because I have them. A bit like why climb Everest? Because it is there!! I took advantage of the crossover deal last year and seeing that I could buy a powerful music package at less than half the price, I thought why not. As development for Logic on PC has stopped (yes, I realise that 5.5 is still very powerful and viable for many years to come), I figure that there is value in learning another system which in the foreseeable future will continue to develop. Finally I have no intention to change to Macintosh.
To Astroman,
I think having removable drives is so far the best solution, but I have heard that they can wear out after a while and are a bit fiddly to use. Do you think that having Logic and Cubase on the same drive would be a problem?
To Astroman,
I think having removable drives is so far the best solution, but I have heard that they can wear out after a while and are a bit fiddly to use. Do you think that having Logic and Cubase on the same drive would be a problem?
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Hey there!
I'm using both LAP5 and CubaseSX on the same drive partition without any problem at all. I switch back and forth between the two and they both work just fine! I even tried running both just for the sake of it (but you have to release LAP's or SX's ASIO first - I can't remember which) and was tickled to run both DAWs at the same time.
Removable drives are awesome. And I suppose this is the most important thing - to run all your aduio on a separate drive/s, separate from the OS and apps drive. I'm using two U160 SCSI drives, each in a removable tray in a dual bay external SCSI enclosure.
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I'm using both LAP5 and CubaseSX on the same drive partition without any problem at all. I switch back and forth between the two and they both work just fine! I even tried running both just for the sake of it (but you have to release LAP's or SX's ASIO first - I can't remember which) and was tickled to run both DAWs at the same time.
Removable drives are awesome. And I suppose this is the most important thing - to run all your aduio on a separate drive/s, separate from the OS and apps drive. I'm using two U160 SCSI drives, each in a removable tray in a dual bay external SCSI enclosure.
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I agree with ZStation, put OS, swapfile and the 2 apps on one drive (system drive) and your audio data on another one.
Have an extra empty bay for your 'backup' drive, which you only insert when needed.
You should use metal cases with good airflow around them (not exactly cheap) for the bays and drives which don't develope much heat.
Avoid those with tiny fans, they are totally crap, the fans produce close to nothing of airflow, but a hell of a noise.
If the case is high enough it's good to leave one unit empty between the drives for improved airflow.
cheers, Tom
Have an extra empty bay for your 'backup' drive, which you only insert when needed.
You should use metal cases with good airflow around them (not exactly cheap) for the bays and drives which don't develope much heat.
Avoid those with tiny fans, they are totally crap, the fans produce close to nothing of airflow, but a hell of a noise.
If the case is high enough it's good to leave one unit empty between the drives for improved airflow.
cheers, Tom