Move Sound library to external?

[jonknowles8]

Thank you, Surfwhammy, for this and many other tech posts on this forum, from which I've learned a lot. Even got wind of a heavy metal (if that is still the term) band, which I would otherwise never have...ah...bent my ear to.

One of the limits on my computer is 2GB Ram and apparently this machine can't upgrade to more, so that limits what I can do with some of the larger sound libraries, I understand. But the machine works well and I can use N2, N3 and GPO sounds okay thus far, so I won't be changing the hard drive anytime soon knock on wood.

I'll probably install Miroslav on the main hard drive as was suggested and back up the sounds elsewhere. I hadn't checked my present external drive - I see it's >200 GB, so that should be fine.

Jon

[Surfwhammy]

Thank you, Surfwhammy, for this and many other tech posts on this forum, from which I've learned a lot. Even got wind of a heavy metal (if that is still the term) band, which I would otherwise never have...ah...bent my ear to.

One of the limits on my computer is 2GB Ram and apparently this machine can't upgrade to more, so that limits what I can do with some of the larger sound libraries, I understand. But the machine works well and I can use N2, N3 and GPO sounds okay thus far, so I won't be changing the hard drive anytime soon knock on wood.

I'll probably install Miroslav on the main hard drive as was suggested and back up the sounds elsewhere. I hadn't checked my present external drive - I see it's >200 GB, so that should be fine.

Jon

Glad to help!

I usually do a bit of research when I am working on a reply, which is a great way to learn new stuff . . .

I had seen "eSATA" a few times but did not know what it was, but after doing the research for my reply I am quite intrigued by the idea of getting an eSATA PCI card for the Mac Pro, since I already have some of the LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Disk 500GB external drives, which I use for occasional backups . . .

I found several places that have eSATA PCI cards for the Mac and PC in the $30 to $35 price range, which is affordable on a budget, and this looks to be comparable in some respects with internal hard drive speeds or at least faster than Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 . . .

The various VST and VSTi components and instrument libraries are not huge, so the primary concerns here in the sound isolation studio are (a) the audio files for Digital Performer 7 projects, which tend to be somewhere in the range of 5GB and (b) various video files for music videos, which tend to be in the range of 1GB per minute or less and tend to accumulate rapidly, since it tends to require several hours of video for a 3 minute and 30 seconds song, although at present I have done just one music video this way, and it was not very complex in terms of production and so forth, since it mostly was video of me being silly with some DISCO party lights and a fog machine . . .

[NOTE: This is the YouTube music video for "(I Want) Angela Gossow's Underpants (Ya-Ya-Ya)" (The Surf Whammys), which for the well-schooled Classical aficionados is a curiously surreal Heavy Metal variation of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard Grieg), as is "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix), which is something I realized sometime after doing the song and YouTube music video while researching a reply to a discussion in the GuitarZone.com FORUM, which was a fascinating thing to discover . . . ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecAFV-6rQ7Q

For the less well-schooled Classical aficionados, this is a YouTube music video of a concert performance of "The Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard Grieg), where the important thing in this context is to listen to the start of the song, although some of the other phrases are important, as well . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg

And this is a YouTube music video of "Purple Haze" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSW67ySCio

Once you connect the dots, it becomes possible to suggest reasonably that Edvard Grieg was composing Heavy Metal songs over a century ago, which is fabulous . . .

Fabulous!