Emulate Timeline Cache benefits on your Mac for FREE!

[Dism]

http://www.airusersblog.com/home-pag...-on-a-mac.html

Discuss.

I am more than willing to help improve or clarify anything in these vids!

[sunburst79]

Nice job Dan

[Emcha_audio]

Good stuff mate.

[TOM@METRO]

Yes Dan, very nice job.

[freqshowmusic]

video was great and easy to follow, though I tried it and I don't notice anything difference really. Doesn't really feel faster and still have hangups about as frequently as off my HD.

any one else try this?

I have 10GB of ram and set the disk 5 GB (which created a 2.5 GB Ram Disk). Dragged a session to the disk and opened the session off ram disk.

Tested with a 1.5 GB session and it opened with same speed as my disk, and didn't seem to perform any smoother. Though I am running a lot of native plugins which cause hangups off the disk as well as off ram.

[blairl]

Having to repeatedly shift the session back and forth from permanent storage to the temporary RAM disk seems like a pain. Also, if the computer were to crash or the power were lost, it seems that everything worked on in the session would be instantly lost.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by freqshowmusic

video was great and easy to follow, though I tried it and I don't notice anything difference really. Doesn't really feel faster and still have hangups about as frequently as off my HD.

any one else try this?

I have 10GB of ram and set the disk 5 GB (which created a 2.5 GB Ram Disk). Dragged a session to the disk and opened the session off ram disk.

Tested with a 1.5 GB session and it opened with same speed as my disk, and didn't seem to perform any smoother. Though I am running a lot of native plugins which cause hangups off the disk as well as off ram.

The biggest difference for me has been rendering times. Consolidating regions(clips) seems near instantaneous, along with other rendered operations like EA and AS. Importing audio is also noticeably faster, and I haven't seen a single playback error yet. I've only been using this myself for the past few days, but I can't see going back to running sessions directly from the hard disk ever again.

I'm thinking my next video will overview specific differences in usage between running a session off the spinning disk and off the ramdisk.

What I'd really like is for users still on PT9 or earlier to confirm whether or not they can use the ramdisk for playback/record.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Dism

http://www.airusersblog.com/home-pag...-on-a-mac.html

Discuss.

I am more than willing to help improve or clarify anything in these vids!

Good to see you got this going on the Mac platform. As you already know, the LE folks on Windows have been doing this for the past few years with a few other RAM Disk solutions. We even got it going on an HD system running 7.4 back in the day.

V.I.'s work with blazing speed running in RAM.

Shane

[Shan]

Originally Posted by blairl

Having to repeatedly shift the session back and forth from permanent storage to the temporary RAM disk seems like a pain. Also, if the computer were to crash or the power were lost, it seems that everything worked on in the session would be instantly lost.

On the Windows side of things, this is where SuperVolume shines. Today's RAM disks have overcome any phobias about it being volatile. The RAM disks of today can mirror your physical Hard Disk partition. If any write requests are needed, the write request will also be performed on the HD since it's being mirrored. If the power goes out or if there's a system crash etc, all write requests performed up to that point are preserved on the mirrored Hard Disk hence the volatile issue is no more. This is also completely configurable from a one to one mirror of any write requests needed, to a timed write request period, for example, do all write requests to the mirrored hard drive every 5 minutes(or whatever time period you define), to a 100% volatile Ram disk. One can choose to run only the Audio Folder in RAM, just the VI's or even better, all of Pro Tools including the O.S.

There's gotta be a Mac equal out there for SuperVolume.

Shane

[Dism]

Originally Posted by Shan

Good to see you got this going on the Mac platform. As you already know, the LE folks on Windows have been doing this for the past few years with a few other RAM Disk solutions. We even got it going on an HD system running 7.4 back in the day.

V.I.'s work with blazing speed running in RAM.

Shane

It was actually your post a little while ago about this that inspired me to check out the options available on Mac.

There really don't seem to be any applications dedicated to ramdisk management for OSX, so it takes a bit of tinkering... but so far I'm blown away at the simplicity and performance advantages.

I am certainly looking into having an app written for this specific purpose, however. I'm wondering if it might be as simple as some AppleScript programming.