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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 394950" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>I agree with that, more or less, give or take. Firewire 400 can transfer about 40-45MB a second realistically which is about 4 minutes worth of uncompressed stereo 16-bit CD quality audio per second.</p><p></p><p>However... most musicians nowadays, even bedroom musos like me, end up using far more bandwidth than that. Even Logic Express (the baby version of Logic) allows 8 track, 24-bit mastering at 96khz. Cubase and Logic Pro, this extends to 64-channels, 24-bit at 192khz, which if you actually ever used, would be far more than a firewire 400 port could handle.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I have many multi-track recordings using 24-bit resolution and my MacBook has never missed a beat, I use an external 7200rpm Firewire 400 drive - the trick is having plenty of RAM and being sensible about mix-downs. The real bandwidth issues start happening when your samples are multi-track audio and is being streamed, whilst you're recording a mix-down or new track or multiple tracks.</p><p></p><p>Now 90MB/Sec or so for Firewire 800 would be pretty hard to use up...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 394950, member: 21101"] I agree with that, more or less, give or take. Firewire 400 can transfer about 40-45MB a second realistically which is about 4 minutes worth of uncompressed stereo 16-bit CD quality audio per second. However... most musicians nowadays, even bedroom musos like me, end up using far more bandwidth than that. Even Logic Express (the baby version of Logic) allows 8 track, 24-bit mastering at 96khz. Cubase and Logic Pro, this extends to 64-channels, 24-bit at 192khz, which if you actually ever used, would be far more than a firewire 400 port could handle. Having said that, I have many multi-track recordings using 24-bit resolution and my MacBook has never missed a beat, I use an external 7200rpm Firewire 400 drive - the trick is having plenty of RAM and being sensible about mix-downs. The real bandwidth issues start happening when your samples are multi-track audio and is being streamed, whilst you're recording a mix-down or new track or multiple tracks. Now 90MB/Sec or so for Firewire 800 would be pretty hard to use up... [/QUOTE]
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