EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 30-08-2003, florianenders wrote:

>I'm wondering if I could improve the performance of my Dual G4
>system by putting the EX-Samples and the "normal" audiofiles, which
>play in the tracks, on different harddrives? I have the System HD,
>which has 2 partitions, one for the system, the other is almost
>unused. Then I've got a Media-HD, which carries all the midi, audio
>and video files. Would it be better to have all files used by the
>EXS on the second partition of my System HD? Any experiences here?

You should realise that a partition is just another part of the same 
physical _drive_.  Common wisdom seems to dictate that all audio 
files (including samples) should ideally reside on a non-system, 
non-application drive.  Thus using a partition that's on the same 
drive as the system and the app won't do you any good.  If e.g. the 
system needs to load resources, the drivehead, which may be busy 
reading samples, will have to jump to another part (and partition) to 
read the sys-resources -- which will thus interrupt the 
sample-loading process.  So my not-too-educated but maybe not-too 
dumb-either :) guess is that you're better off leaving the samples on 
the audio drive.

BTW, do you really run into 'disk overload' before getting a 'CPU overload'?

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