Estoy en un concierto, pinchar con Ableton Live . A mitad de mi juego, de repente no puede pistas de señal. Pulso el botón de mi Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1, nada. Oh, muchacho. Lo bueno es que conozco mis clips también.
I finish the gig, and I start the long process of uncovering all the things I've done wrong to have this situation occur. My first call of course is to my friend Jon, Author of "Ableton Live 8 Power!". First thing he asks is if I'm using an internal drive, or an external drive. I am in fact using the internal laptop drive for all my music files. I was smart enough to have installed a 7200 rpm drive- many drives are 5400, and considered too slow for music work.
However, what I did was use up 495 gigs out of the available 500 gigs. This resulted in Ableton simply not having enough disc cache available to run properly. With 95% of my drive full, the Drive head has to travel all over the place as well, which slows it down.
Asà que el primer consejo, deje de toneladas, y me refiero a un montón de espacio de disco duro libre. 10% como mÃnimo.
Jon dice que muchas personas van incluso más allá, y utilizar un disco FireWire 800 para las muestras de música, y dejar la unidad interna de funcionamiento del sistema. La teorÃa aquà es que la unidad de la música tiene una cabeza de lectura dedicado a la lectura de muestras de música, y nada más. Una vez más, asegúrese de que la unidad externa es de 7200 rpm.
El sistema y el programa se han cabeza de lectura del disco duro interno que se dedica sólo a realizar la operación del sistema y las funciones de operación del programa.
Dos barras de reproducción son mejores que la cabeza juega un.

¿Por qué Firewire 800?
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Some interfaces behave differently in this regard. I've tried both connection methods in the past - though never relying on recording more than 3 audio tracks simultaneously. Both worked well.
I'd actually add that USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 are vastly different. The transfer rate numbers may look similar, but in real-world tests Firewire 400 streaming data at about 50MB per second will perform absolutely fine for all but the most demanding of rigs.
Also take into account that USB 2.0 can provide fast data transfer in bursts - great for copying data, etc. But for audio and video applications Firewire 400/800 is better because it has a higher 'constant streaming transfer rate' which provides better peformance when streaming (e.g.recording) audio in real-time.
So, Firewire 800 is preferable of course(!) - but Firewire 400 will suit the needs of most people and then on top of that the new Thunderbolt technology looks set to blow all the above and USB 3.0 out of the water! In the theory, say good bye to multiple ports on your Mac - instead have a "Thunderbolt hub" with different connections for Firewire, USB2, PCI, Display port, etc devices.
:)
Anyway, as DJ Wolfie mentions, I'd also recommend using 7200 rpm or faster drives. Then again in a year or two perhaps all drives will be SSD... again - much, much faster and they're quieter as they have no moving parts.
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