Protools Home studio set up - advice needed please!

[tommusic]

Heya, any advice would be really appreciated -

I have a macbook (it has one firewire port) I'm looking at getting m-powered protools and a profire 2626 interface from m-audio. I have checked all the specs and this should be fine, however.....

I've read a lot, and it seems a lot of people suggest you shouldn't record onto your integrated hardrive - why?

So do I need to buy an external hardrive? (I have a USB one - but apparently thats crap :s ...?)

and I only have one firewire port so If I use that for my interface, then I can't use it for an external hardrive :s ....?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Tom

 

[zimv20]

you can chain the firewire port and it'll be fine. USB is too slow for audio. your internal disc is too busy to record much audio. a couple tracks are fine, more than that and you could run into issues.

 

[tommusic]

Hey zimv20, what do you mean by chain? What would I need to buy?

 

[deej999]

By Chain, i think he means 'Daisy Chain'. If your HD has two firewire ports (many do) then connect like this Mac to HD to Audio interface.

Or you could get a firewire hub. Connect it to your mac and then run the fw devices through that. Check with Digidesign what they recommend.

deej

 

[tommusic]

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Okay...What would you recomend?

 

[deej999]

I don't know the profire 2626. I'd try daisy chaining...