Samrat
(formerly: akhill jain)
Hello,
I was watching a video by Anne-Kathrin Dern on hardware required for music production, which was really insightful and there were a few points about sample management.
Since I'm a macbook user and not so aware of the technicals, I thought of seeking some clarity on the same. Some help would be really appreciated
1) she uses a dedicated machine with multiple hard drives which acts as a server just for sample streaming. This is the first time I've heard about this. Could someone please explain how does the referencing work from an entirely different system?
2) There was a mention about accessing various libraries through different hard drives as opposed to loading all through one, which does reduce the load on one single drive. Do you folks practice this too? What does your setup look like? How many drives are ideal in this kinda setup?
3) How do you all divide usage between SSD and HDD. A single external SSD's storage capacity is relatively lesser and I'm guessing to store many sample libraries at once might not be feasible? (Please correct me if I'm wrong here). What is your workflow like? with reference to this.
4) I've heard from a few that maintaining 2 or atleast 1 backup drive for samples is ideal. I have wondered for a while now that to avoid relocating samples when accessed via the backup drive, should the backup drive be named exactly the same?
For example if the libraries in the main drive are stored in :
My passport- Vst- Cinesamples
Should the backup drive have the same content path?
Thank you so much! Really looking forward to getting some responses and hearing about personal setups and workflows.
I was watching a video by Anne-Kathrin Dern on hardware required for music production, which was really insightful and there were a few points about sample management.
Since I'm a macbook user and not so aware of the technicals, I thought of seeking some clarity on the same. Some help would be really appreciated
1) she uses a dedicated machine with multiple hard drives which acts as a server just for sample streaming. This is the first time I've heard about this. Could someone please explain how does the referencing work from an entirely different system?
2) There was a mention about accessing various libraries through different hard drives as opposed to loading all through one, which does reduce the load on one single drive. Do you folks practice this too? What does your setup look like? How many drives are ideal in this kinda setup?
3) How do you all divide usage between SSD and HDD. A single external SSD's storage capacity is relatively lesser and I'm guessing to store many sample libraries at once might not be feasible? (Please correct me if I'm wrong here). What is your workflow like? with reference to this.
4) I've heard from a few that maintaining 2 or atleast 1 backup drive for samples is ideal. I have wondered for a while now that to avoid relocating samples when accessed via the backup drive, should the backup drive be named exactly the same?
For example if the libraries in the main drive are stored in :
My passport- Vst- Cinesamples
Should the backup drive have the same content path?
Thank you so much! Really looking forward to getting some responses and hearing about personal setups and workflows.
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