erikromero10 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I'm using Logic 9 on Snow Leopard... I have an 8 bar loop with about 20 tracks.... about 10 tracks have EQs and compressors. All other tracks are muted.... Why is my HD meter spiking every other beat or so? CPU barely registers on the meter. Im on my MacBook Pro, Dual Core 2.5 processor (4GB RAM). No external HD being used. Any help would be appreciated BTW - I have my buffer in Logic at 512 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Muting a track won't stop the audio file from playing, you just won't hear it. You have to mute the regions. Do you have a 7200 rpm hard drive in the laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikromero10 Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 I forgot to mention.... No Midi is involved, so no instruments are being used... Im using All audio files. And yes the drive is 7200RPM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sound609 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I get the same behavior here, I think it's to be expected, I think it reads/writes in bursts. I'm sure you know this but you should really be running audio on a separate drive, especially if you're looking at 20 audio tracks. Puts a lot of strain on the system disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikromero10 Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 Really? That's weird because I didn't notice it until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Yes, it's always better to have the audio on an external or second internal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikromero10 Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 Not goof to have it on the primary? Im only using about 25% of my internal drive at this point so I wouldnt think there would be an issue. I have an 800 firewire external... should I have all my samples on that? I thought it would read faster if on normal internal drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sound609 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 It's ok to have samples (because these generally get loaded into RAM) on the system drive but you want the audio that you are recording and playing back to be on a separate drive. In other words, save and run your Logic projects from another drive. I use the system drive (since it's 500GB) as a backup for my audio projects but always run them from the external. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikromero10 Posted September 4, 2009 Author Share Posted September 4, 2009 Ok, so save my projects on my external and run them from there? What purpose does that serve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 It leaves the system drive to only play samples and take care of Logic and OSX. The external plays back the bigger audio files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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