Members onelife Posted January 5, 2010 Members Share Posted January 5, 2010 We all know that recording in Pro Tools on a Mac Book should be done to a firewire drive with the Oxford chipset. In a situation where one of these drives is not available, would it be better to record to the internal drive or a non-oxford external firewire drive? The project will be a live recording using two tracks (or possibly four if I can interface with the Mbox SPDIF input) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members samtrips Posted January 5, 2010 Members Share Posted January 5, 2010 We all know that recording in Pro Tools on a Mac Book should be done to a firewire drive with the Oxford chipset.In a situation where one of these drives is not available, would it be better to record to the internal drive or a non-oxford external firewire drive?The project will be a live recording using two tracks (or possibly four if I can interface with the Mbox SPDIF input) OK, I have a Macbook Pro (2 years old) using a Profire 2626 interface and recording 8 analogue inputs at the same time, to PT at 24 bit 44.1 (mostly). Sin of sins, I'm using an external USB drive. I have to say that it's been largely without problems. Been using it about a year and a half, weekly or more, to record full band practice and also separate tracks sometimes. A couple of times I've got the CPU overload message in the middle of a session but it's not that frequent and I can deal. Maybe once in a four hour session I'll lose a take, which for my lot is no big deal - only a couple of 'THE takes' have been lost forever. So I imagine seeing as Firewire is faster than USB you should be OK for only a few inputs. I did have to record to the internal drive a few times when I filled a hard drive and was waiting for the next one to arrive, and it wasn't as good as an external USB IMO. Really don't recommend it. Hope that helps. On a side note, does anyone know whether I could daisy chain a Firewire HD to the Profire in any way? The problem being I have only one Firewire port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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