Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 1999/07

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: Defrag for recording
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:12:05 -0400

At 09:17 AM 7/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>This is probably only part of it. Audio, in general, needs a perfect system
>to run on. All hard disks MUST be completely optimized before you do any
>work. Especially with Sound Forge, disks become really fragmented quite
>quickly. Get a copy of Norton System works and do a full optimization (not
>just defragmenting)if you get more than a couple percent fragmentation.
>That and like Mark said, get at least another 64 megs of memory.
Again, great advice. I'm forwarding all of this to our computer guys.
>I used to run Sound Forge on a Pentium 120 with 96 megs of memory and a
>dedicated 8 gig drive for sound files.
And now I have your personal email address with which to ask you endless
amounts of questions! Thanks!
>I ran perfectly and I could do files
>of 20-30 or more easily. It took forever to use, but it worked quite well.
>Remember stereo CD sound (44.1 kHz, 16 bit) takes about 10 megs per minute
>on your disks.
This is a Pentium II 350 mghtz with 4 meg free on the hard drive. The
computer software states it is not fragmented enough to need optimization,
but I know that the software is geared toward general use. I'll ask for a
copy of Norton and see what happens.
>Have fun playing with your new toys.
And of course, I am! The CD recorder alone is a gas - but the software is
really quite astounding to me. To be able to choose the positive or
negative slope of a wave at the .005 seconds of a particular location is
really cool.

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In Recording Audio - 2% fragmentation is pushing it (my guess). I doubt
that the Windows defragmenter cares about anything under 5%. The Windows
defrag will however defrag your system regardless of how little
fragmentation is present if you run it.
Replying a little late, as I was at ClarFest.

David Blumberg
playit@-----.com
Have you heard? http://www.mytempo.com

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