KVR Audio

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:43 pm

how are you cats doin it

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:07 am

Since the plugins should only hit the disk when your host loads them, or when you load a patch from disk, I don't see any reason to separate them.

There's some argument for recording audio to a separate drive, but I'm not sure it matters anymore with reasonably up-to-date hardware. Laptops generally don't have multiple HDs after all

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:10 am

OS, sequencer and VSTi's on one drive. Samples and loops on a second drive. Record to a third drive. The necessity depends on how hard you push your computer.

For VSTi's it makes no difference.

For non-streaming samplers it makes no difference other than possible load times.

If streaming a lot of audio as with GigaStudio then you want the streaming samples on a separate IDE channel from the OS. You also want the CD/DvD ROM on a channel different than the HD holding the samples. The IDE channel defaults to the speed of the lowest ATA rating and that is usually the CDROM. On my GigaStudio PC my boot drive holds all programs and shares an IDE channel with the DvD. Samples are stored on a fast IDE drive on the second IDE channel. I record to an ultra wide SCSI drive. The SCSI drive was originally bought to hold samples, but now days a 30 Gig drive does not hold much.

Robert

Landphil · Post by **Landphil** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:41 am

Everybody seems to have their own personal preference, and I can't say one may be better than the other, but I always allow the OS it's own partition with room to spare. . . especially if you're using WinXP.

If you don't do regular housekeeping, the page file (if enabled), .dmp folders and the system restore folders can consume massive amounts of disk space, eventually resulting in that annoying Windows pop-up "Warning! Disk space is getting low!"

This is, of course, if you utilize these features of WinXP.

Personally, I don't like anything on the OS partition other than the OS.

Landphil · Post by **Landphil** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:52 am

I should have noted that even with it's own partition, you'll always have pieces of the VST's that require an .exe install placed on an OS partition. Program shortcuts, install and uninstall logs, registry entries etc.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:20 am

thanks folks, i just decided to keep them on my os drive since they're so small.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:19 am

OS on an OS partition, swap on a swap partition, applications (including plugins) on an applications partition, nonaudio data on a data partition, audio data on an audio-only partition.

t-willy · Post by **t-willy** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:27 pm

i keep it all (OS, plugs, audio, porn movies.....errrrr

) on one hard drive, no partitions. i do have a back up drive for my audio though.

lates

t-willy

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:00 pm

Same for me...all on one drive, and don't seem to have any problems.

But not the porn of course...none of that on my drive whatsoever at all.

Should I keep my vst fx and vstis on my os drive or not??