One of the other more recent upgrades I made was replacing my standard 7200 RPM drives with SSDs (Solid State Drives). Replace Your Hard Drives With Solid State Drives The point is to save all your sessions on a separate drive and pull from that when recording and mixing. Of course, if you (like me) have two internal hard drives in your computer then you don’t need an external drive. Keep it clean and separate and you’ll get better performance. Much like studios used to have tape machines and consoles each doing their own thing, you should have a separate hard drive feeding your DAW audio and not combine the two. Why? Because it will free your system drive up to just run the software, plugins, and OS. Instead, hook up a USB, Firewire, or Thunderbolt drive that is used only for recording to. Do not record to or mix from your internal system drive, the same hard drive that has your operating system and DAW installed on it. Record To (And Mix From) An External Drive And then just this month I doubled it again to 16GB. And great tutorials/support.įor example – my Mac Mini came with 4GB of RAM 5 years ago. Since I’m a Mac guy, I’ll point you to my favorite place to buy RAM for my Macs and that is OWC (Other World Computing).
Windows or mac for recording music install#
Since third party memory is both so cheap and easy to install or swap out, this is the obvious place to start. These days, most DAWs can take all the RAM you through at them, giving you more power and quicker response in a dense mix.
This was because the operating systems and DAWs weren’t 64 bit, and they could only allot a certain amount of RAM (memory) to any one program at a given time.
In the “old” days of DAWs – how much RAM you had really didn’t’ matter. In fact there are some strategic things you can do (or upgrade) to optimize your Mac or PC to be a beast of a DAW machine. I did, however, just do some upgrades to it that have helped a lot. In fact, as of this writing I’m still rocking a 6 year old Mac Mini in my studio.
The computer you already have is probably fine. Do you really need the most expensive Mac or PC to handle big track counts and lots of plugins in your home studio?
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