Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Chris Coccia <mothra@...> wrote:
: 
: GAmoore@... wrote:
: > 
: > I wish Apple would clear this matter up. We have heard of the ills of 
: > fragmented files for years - and it would cut down track counts and such 
: > in digital audio.
: 
: Heres how I defrag my audio drive. I backup my entire Lacie 160GB fw 
: drive to my internal 160gb backup drive. Erase it, then copy everything 
: back. Bam its defragged as best as its gonna get. And FYI, it has not 
: helped a single bit in getting any higher track counts or less of a CPU 
: load. Hate to say it but its not really worth it to even bother..

Well, as soon as you're playing back more than one audio track at the same
time, the drive has to skip back and forth if the files are defragmented.
Writing the files to the drive interleaved in the same way that they are
used in the song might work, but no defragmenting software would know to
do this, or how.

When you first do a multiple-track audio recording, they probably land on
the drive in a way that is more or less interleaved, and that's probably
about as efficient as you can be with regard to improving track counts via
data arrangement.
Defragmenting files that are written in this manner would actually hurt
performance (theoretically).

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