Teac GigaStudio 3 - Manual (Page 18)

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Folder destination option for factory impulses:
Recommendations
Probably the single most important thing you can do for your system to increase per-
formance and polyphony is to dedicate a separate physical hard drive to your sample
content. It is simply not enough to create a separate audio partition on the same drive
as your OS and programs. In fact, this is actually a bad idea- this makes the drive’s stylus
or head work even harder, since it is simultaneously seeking application data in one
partition and streaming audio data from another. A dedicated drive for your content
frees up both drives to separately access the program data and the audio data.
If your motherboard has only two IDE or SATA connectors, you would normally con-
nect the system drive to the primary connector (IDE 1 or SATA 1) and the audio drive to
the secondary connector (IDE2 or SATA 2). Set each hard drive’s jumper to master. Con-
figure your CD or DVD drive as the slave device on IDE1 or SATA1, and make sure that it
is sharing the system drive connection ribbon cable and not the audio drive connection
ribbon cable that your dedicated audio drive is connected to. This will insure unint-
erupted data flow to and from the more critical audio drive. If your motherboard has
a separate IDE or SATA controller(s), your setup will be more flexible as well as allowing
for more physical drives.
The impulse content should ideally be placed on yet another separate drive from the
.gig content, or on the system drive with the OS and programs.
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