12" Pb & Digi002, Has anyone used these together? Options

[greatscott94]

I am wanting to purchase the 002 rack and pair it with my 12" PowerBook. My PB has 640 RAM, 867mhz and a 40-gig HD. I will be purchasing a 80-gig external HD. I plan to be recording full live bands. I would like to know if anyone else has tried this yet and how well did work? Will I need to add anything into my setup? I don't plan on using many plug-ins during the recording. Most plug-ins will be added during the editing and mixing. Will this allow me to use all 8 ins at the same time?

I have done a fair amount of recording in studio and on a G4 tower with 001 and a little bit with a borrowed Mbox on my PB, but I yet to test it with any hard core recording. I would love to know how well it will stand up and or what I will need to add?

Thanks for any advice or help.

[JamesIII]

It all comes down to the speed of the hard drive you are planning on recording to; if you are recording more than two simultaneous tracks, which you say you will do, you will need at least a 7200 rpm drive. Most desktop comuputers come equipped with them. Because the actual size of the 7200 rpm drive is too big, most laptops come equipped with a 4800 rpm drive. If you record to the external drive you are planning on getting, as long as it spins at 7200 rpm, you'll be fine. I recommend the "Lacie" brand of drives; they make fantastic external firewire drives. I'm guessing that the 80 gig drive will cost about $150. I hope this helps!

James III

[greatscott94]

Thanks JamesIII.

Your info is fantastic, and in-fact the Lacie brand of drives is exactly what I am looking at.

Thanks Again James III

[leamatic]

I use a G4 800mhz Powermac with a MOTU 828 and a Lacie 120GB Fire Wire Hard Drive. I bought the external drive recently and I have noticed a few teething problems, notably more frequent crashes, although the quality of the recordings has been fine. I gather there may be conflicts between the 828 and the Lacie which stem from both using the Firewire protocol. As far as I know DIGI 002 also uses Firewire, so it might be worth checking with digidesign or with lacie as to whether such problems are common. I should add that it has been 8 months since I last defragmented my system drive, and this may also be a source of trouble. Hope that helps man...

P.s. if anyone else has had problems of a similar nature I would love to know, thanks...

[greatscott94]

Thank you for your advice leamatic. I will look any related crashes between the 002 and the Lacie hard drive.

[phoeb]

I gather there may be conflicts between the 828 and the Lacie which stem from both using the Firewire protocol.

This is an interesting question... Personnaly I have a PCMIA VX pocket in my powerbook. But I also record on a LaCie d2 120 giga and I will use a 828 MOTu this week end to have 8 inputs in the same time... and now I'm affraid, bouh

I never try the digi 002 rack... is there a DSP inside for a best velocity like the RME interfaces ???

[leamatic]

Phoeb, all I can recommend is that you make sure not to chain the two devices, use two seperate firewire ports on the mac instead. (If you are not using an 828 mk. 2 this is impossible in any case). You might also consider working on OSX rather than OS9 if you had not already planned to, good luck with the recording, B

[dspoe]

as much as id like to say go for the 7200rpm drives.. i do have to say that im severly impressed with this ACOM Data 5400 firewire.

during our last sessions, for the "Leaving It All Behind" CD it was the only drive running on a LOT of our final sessions in protools. Most of the songs were 40+ channels too... go figure.

i say if u can, get a faster drive, but maybe a cheaper drive will do the trick too...

im buying these now like 2" masters...