Ramdisk under OSX big improvements in performance for DAWs

[pifos_2]

hey guys,

after reading a very interesting post on the airusers blog :
http://airusersblog.squarespace.com...ools-10-timeline-cache-for-free-on-a-mac.html

i tried it out myself. it's really working really good.
the big problem is the backing up and stuff but i also found this : http://puregin.org/setting-up-a-persistent-ramdisk-on-MacOS.
and he also explained in the second video how to automatically backup.

ramdisk is a very old feature of OSX and also exists on windows.
if you have >8/12gb you should be able to create a ramdisk and transfer a whole session on there.

i tried with PT10 and a fireface UC. some really heavy sessions that were sensible @1024 can now playback smoothly @128. and some projections I am somewhere in the middle of the production I can now record with a lot of stability @32.

 

[pifos_2]

for windows : http://www.airusersblog.com/home-pa...sc-on-a-pc-more-timeline-cache-emulation.html

 

[C_F_H_13]

Jon (audiogeekzine) was showing me this and I gotta try it out. Kind scares me a bit but who knows..maybe with a proper backup protocol it could work really well.

 

[updog]

so is this something that works in DAWs besides pro tools? i tried to find out what this is about but it's kinda confusing and has Avid written all over everything

 

[AudioGeekZine]

so is this something that works in DAWs besides pro tools? i tried to find out what this is about but it's kinda confusing and has Avid written all over everything

instead of reading/writing everything from a hard drive, you load it into a dedicated portion of RAM for instant access.
This will work with any DAW.

The HUGE downside is the potential for data loss if your computer locks up or crashes or restarts. Everything is lost. When I used Pro Tools on PC, that probability was pretty high.
You'd need something that backs up constantly.
Perhaps Steven Massey's Slacker http://diamond.he.net/~smassey/plugin.html
<-- Took me a while to find that!

Apparently AVID's $2000 solution is safe.

 

[LeSedna]

This is gold, I didn't know it was possible to do that so easily. I'm gonna try this today, it's just about being careful with your backups.