4th Eden

Hi Is there any way in moving markers on a project in line with my looped midi clips?

On 5/31/2019 at 3:56 PM, Starise said:

The M.2 spec is basically a drive on a card. The footprint is much smaller making  it  great for laptops, though there are plenty of desktop motherboards that have it now too. In order to handle those faster specs, your computer needs the capability to see/use it. 

I agree with the larger SSD idea. I sort of gravitated in smaller increments with the same end result. I went with a bunch of 500gb Samsung drives. My MOBO has like 10 SATA ports on it. I still have room for a bunch more drives after adding 5. My most recent was a Samung EVO860. This might be a consideration if money is tight since you can go in a more as needed way adding 500gb drives instead of 1TB  drives. One other benefit to that is you can keep more specialty files separate on each drive. A builder isn't likely to do that. He will probably just add huge drives unless told otherwise.

If adding drives, keep in mind a PC running win 10 Home won't instantly recognize a drive like say, a usb stick or memory card. You'll need to go in and do some basic setup in disk management. It's easy once you know how to do it....I guess that covers a lot of things.

im going for Win10 Pro...yes, this mtgerboard allows for another 4 2.5" drive..Im adding my current one so I will still have 3 left...

On 6/1/2019 at 9:09 PM, antler said:

Also keep in mind that any mechanical HDD is going to be louder than an SSD: SSDs don't have any physically moving parts (and so will probably generate less heat; meaning less cooling overall is needed for your PC [in turn possibly meaning quieter PC case fans]). If you can, go for a newer processor architecture, i.e. an i9 if you're going for Intel. If you're after an M2 for speed, I'd recommend using it for the OS/program data, and one or more SSDs for your sample libraries.

If you have the chance to spec out the case fans, larger fans provide more cooling with less movement so opt for 12cm fans if available; I also recommend Noctua fans for quietness.

Thanks...

Current thinking ..

OS drive M.2 512GB SSD
Program Data/Libraries/Cakewalk Projects  - 960GB SSD
VST Libraries (Komplete/Spectrasonics/IK Multimedia etc..)  - 3TB HDD
Backup/Spare Drive - 3TB HDD
16GB DDR4 RAM
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight Core CPU (3.2GHz-4.1GHz/20MB CACHE/AM4)
Case has 6x3.0 USB and 4 x USB 2...
 

14 hours ago, iRelevant said:

As other have mentioned, I would up the specs of the SSD. Cost have really come down. Planning on upgrading from a 500 GB to a 1 TB SSD in the near future.

just trying to understand the new M.2 SSDs...theres a SATA version up to 600mb p/s and NVMe SSD 2gb+ p/s 

Ive now had a spec from a local company based on some of the suggestions:
 

AMD Ryzen 2200G Processor + AMD VEGA 8 Graphics

Motherboard featuring 6 x SATA connections + 1 x NVME Drive. Total = 7 Drives. 6 x USB 3.1 + 2 x USB 2.0.

16GB DDR4 RAM

480GB NVME Drive for Windows boot drive. (This is 4 x faster than an SSD.)

1 x 480GB SSD

1 x 3 TB HDD

450W Corsair PSU

So Ive not heard of a NVME drive before... for me this is a huge improvement on my current laptop.. but im still unsure about the Ryzen processor...

On 5/27/2019 at 11:35 PM, msmcleod said:

One of the reasons I did this is because I had a dual boot (well, actually I've got a quad boot: Win 10, Win 10 "test" [for testing updates etc],  Win 7 64 bit, Win 7 32 bit), but it means all four boots can use the same ProgramData and I don't end up having multiple copies of samples.

But it also means my backups are quicker, as I don't have to refresh my back up of the ProgramData drive as often.

3 hours ago, Cookie Jarvis said:

Personally I'd double the size of the SSD if not get a 1TB one...the prices have really come down. Also, if you do a lot of orchestral or complicted projects with a lot of sample libraries bump your ram to 24gb, otherwise 16 is fine! And you want a third drive as well...SSD for Windows and programs, plugins, etc., 2nd drive for sample libraries, 3rd drive will be your audio drive...save your projects here. Also start thinking about using more than one monitor...one for the console, one for tracks, and a third for other programs, plugin GUIs, browser, etc. I have 3 monitors right now...28" main, 32" above that, and a 22" to the right...waiting for delivery of a 10' dvi cable so I can hook up another 22" to the right of my keyboards to view better while recording my keys.

Bill

agree on all those points..I'd love to push the boat out and whack a 1tb ssd...extra RAM but budget dictates squeezing the spec somewhat... I ve got a 42" Samsung which im happy with 

9 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

If you've ONLY got programs on your OS drive, then a 240 SSD should be fine... however, that's assuming any sample-based packages have their sample data on another drive. In this isn't case go with at least 1TB.

Although a standard HDD might be tempting as it's much cheaper, any sample based synths (Komplete, Omnisphere etc) will be MUCH slower at loading.

I've got a 250GB C drive with programs only, a 500GB SSD E drive with the "ProgramData" parts of (i.e. samples for) NI Komplete, Omnisphere, AIR Complete & Sonitus stuff, and another 500GB SSD F drive for my own samples & project files. D drive is my DVD-R.

It's worth mentioning my 500GB Program Data drive is almost full. All that's on there is what I mentioned above, plus some 3rd party Kontakt libaries. Oh, and I've got Komplete Standard - there's no way Komplete Ultimate would fit on that drive.

So my recommendation would be:

OS/Programs drive: 250GB SSD
Program Data/Samples : 1TB SSD 
Projects Drive: 500GB SSD

...and get a 4TB HDD drive for backups.

yes..thats the mistake i made with the last workstation...program data I think defaults on the C drive ..NI is a bugger for putting all this data on here or I think in my My Docs folder

So my trusty Laptop Workstation has gone one windows update too far...now in a perpetual loop... this was purchased in 2012. Time to reinstall all my software...DATA is safe on a DATA drive so its all programs.

So Im on the hunt for a replacement workstation...this time a tower/desktop..

My specs as I see it would be as follows:

i7 processor... 16gb ram...240GB ssd...2TB HD on Win10 pro..

Agree/disagree?