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  • Can my Mac setup run VSL Orchestral Cube Pro Successfully ?

    M
    M
    Hi all,

    I shall be ordering the Orchestral Cube Pro next week in EXS format.

    I would like to know from anyone who has a similar setup as me if the setup I have is sufficient to run VSL Orchestral Cube Pro edition?

    My setup is:
    Mac G4 MDD 1Gig, 1.5 Gig RAM
    1 x 80 Gig ATA100 HDD - System Drive (Logic Platinum and other Apps.)
    1 x 80 Gig ATA100 HDD - Work Drive (Currently for Audio & Video editing)
    1 x 80 Gig ATA66 HDD - Work Drive
    1 x 200 Gig ATA66 HDD - Work Drive This drive will be installed when I purchase VSL.

    1. Should I spread VSL over the 3 Work Drives, or would the 1 200 Gig Drive
    stream sufficiently ?

    2. Should I place the 200 Gig HDD in the ATA100 Bay or doesn't it matter which slot the 200GIG HDD goes in i.e. ATA66/ATA100 bay in terms of performance ?

    3. I'm using the 80 Gig ATA100 HDD as my Main Work Drive for Audio and Video. Can the ATA66 bays handle Audio & Video Editing??

    4. Considering I intend on obtaining other EXS Samples in the very near future such as Ethno 2 etc...

    Any info would be greatly appreciated !!

    Kind Regards, Max67.
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC
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    max, no need to worry about the speed of your IDE-bus - ATA66 provides 66 MB/s, this is more than any harddisk or even two can *deliver*.
    so the bottleneck for streaming is the harddisk (i would not count on more than 10-12 MB/s per disk for random access on disks with 7.200rpm - forget all the numbers listed for max. throughput or burst datarate, this applies only to sequential access or data from the harddisk-cache).
    now it is a question of voices - each voice (stereo) that has to be streamed needs 176 KB/s, the rest is simple math. if you know already to need 100 or more voices it would be probably a good idea to spread the cube across 2 80GB disks (doubles the throughput of a single disk). please note this figures are not directly related to the question how many samples can be loaded (into your streaming buffer).
    generally i think your video data is better located on the 200 GB drive, because access to video is more sequential than audio for samplers
    as an example: we streamed this logic song from 2 firewire disks (5.400 rpm) connected to a single bus
    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • L
    L
    Check into the specifics, but from what I've heard, you will not get 200 GB of storage from a 200 GB ATA drive mounted internally in a G4 using either the ATA 66 or 100 bus. If you want the full 200 GB, you'll need to mount it externally in a FireWire case.

    Lee Blaske