I just ordered Logic Studio, moving up from Garageband. Yipee! I have a question about best place for samples/sound files (virtual instruments, samples etc.), and for the actual session files (if that's the correct term for the actual recordings, files you create in Logic) . Should I keep them off my iMac, sounds on one disk, sessions on another? Or sounds on an external and sessions files on the internal?

I have a couple of 1tb and a 500 gig external, and a couple 250 giggers sitting around, so they all could be pressed into service. My main external is a thing call the Drobo, which is array of hard drives in a single case, that backs itself up. I'm thinking I shouldn't put all these sound and session files because they read to the HD so much and don't want the Drobo to churn any more than it has to?

thanks!

This post has been edited by lepetitmartien: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 06:15

good question. what i've been doing for a couple of years, with streaming samples and large linear session files, is splitting the project across a couple of drives. i've got an internal drive dedicated to my streaming samples. then i record my audio to an external drive.

when i'm writing to picture, the quicktime file goes on a second external drive, and plays from there.

the set of documents for the whole project goes on the primary external drive. as soon as i've got an intuitive "contract" with a sound set streaming from my sample player, i print it. that often happens late in a project, but it's great for mixing and archiving.
during the process, i continually drag-and-drop back-up to the second external drive.

this approach has worked well for me, with hundreds of voices of streaming samples and plenty 'o audio tracks.

good luck!