Hard drive issue, "Disk too slow..."
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:09 am
I was just running sound over the weekend for a friend's band and decided to try out Capture for the first time. I was walking the room quite a bit and didn't get to spend much time over by my set up and I had the control surface window up with Capture running behind it, so I didn't see that I was getting a "Disk too slow, dropouts may have occurred" or something similar to that warning message. That warning popped up quite a few times, never stopped recording though. I just had a chance to check out the audio and most of it is fine, but there are portions of the audio where it gets digitally "distorted" and sounds robotic, or the audio actually speeds up and sounds robotic. I was recording about 16 tracks at 48k, 24-bit wave. Firewire out of the RM32 to a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter into the MacBook. External hard drive is USB 3.0. Gear listed below.
I was in a hurry, so I missed increasing the Device Block Size, and it was at 512 samples. Would this maybe have been my issue, or do I need to find a better hard drive option for recording, or other? Thanks for any help/insight.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2015)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.5
Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop external drive USB 3.0 7200 RPM (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format)
StudioLive RM32AI Firmware v5651
Capture 2.1.1.31798
I was in a hurry, so I missed increasing the Device Block Size, and it was at 512 samples. Would this maybe have been my issue, or do I need to find a better hard drive option for recording, or other? Thanks for any help/insight.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2015)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.5
Seagate 5TB Expansion Desktop external drive USB 3.0 7200 RPM (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format)
StudioLive RM32AI Firmware v5651
Capture 2.1.1.31798