Logic Pro on Xsan

[dom9inic]

Hi all,

I can’t seem to find any information on the possibility of Logic Pro running firect from an Xsan. My initial instinct was it couldn’t be done due to latency and first file open locks etc. The lack of googled info on the topic seems to confim that.

Anyone know for sure?

To clarify, just want to know if it is possible to run a Logic Pro recording session on an Xsan.

Cheers

[maxroper318]

What sample rate are you looking at recording? How many simultaneous tracks do you want to record? Xsan can be scaled to fit pretty much any bandwidth need and used for content storage mostly, but might introduce too much latency for using it with Logic (like is the case with ProTools). Funny enough, we have a project we’re working on right now and should be able to test this within the next couple of weeks and post an article on this shortly after that.

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[danomatic]

For what I’ve seen and tested so far it works for recording 16 tracks 24/96 simultaniously on a xsan volume build onto one Xserve RAID. This has been done with several projects, and no problem so far. Editing more tracks works fine too. In another setup (video shop) I know they have their sound fx library on the xsan as well, but these files get local copies into ProTools projects. Protools doesn’t support Xsan volumes other than being an Transport volume, so you can’t run those session on there. In that setup, there is also a huge sample library (the Native Instruments komplete stuff) stored on the xsan volume, but all these things mostly get buffered to ram when loaded in the VI plugins.

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