[RayK]

Hi, I've been looking around at a little bit of Pro audio stuff and I have a question. With a program like reason where you are capturing raw stereo sound will a 7200rpm harddrive be enough? I won't have a problem with it skipping will I? Do I need a analog backup?

[Ruthless]

Considering that 7200 RPM hard drives are fast enought to capture DV (which is 3.5MB/sec), I would assume it's fast enough to capture and playback several tracks of audio without a problem.

As with most pro level gear, I would assume many recording studios use higher end IDE or SCSI RAID's. I'm sure an Xserve RAID would work well... <grin>

Originally posted by RayK:
Hi, I've been looking around at a little bit of Pro audio stuff and I have a question. With a program like reason where you are capturing raw stereo sound will a 7200rpm harddrive be enough? I won't have a problem with it skipping will I? Do I need a analog backup?

[RayK]

Its for my professor who was curious and had had some conflicting opinions about it. I mentioned the DV thing to him also. He's a bit paranoid I think. Thanks much!

[tooki]

I've found audio people to often be super-mega-paranoid about hard drives, totally ignoring that a modern bottom-of-the-line drive that they disparage is actually faster than a top-of-the-line model of 5 years ago, which they back then considered to be awesome.

tooki

[Judge_Fire]

Reason doesn't capture audio, it's only a playback thing. For capturing, Apple's GarageBand is a good candidate.

There are a ton of little and big apps for this, so there's a lot of choice. Check out OSXAudio for more audio info.

J

[chris v]

For recording, a 7200 RPM IDE drive should be fine. I've found for mixing, I need a second drive. I read instruments off drive a, and mix and save the output to drive b.

CV

[RayK]

Sorry, to tell the truth I don't know what Reason is Chris: That's what he'll be doing. recording on b mixing on a. Thanks all!