"Anybody tried this at home?"...a follow-up!!

Hi all,
To anybody who got interested in my crazy idea of using an SD card as an audio HD on the current MBP, i finally got one and tried it. I don't know if my procedure is right, though. I used a current "work in progress" containing 5 soft synths tracks and 2 electric guitar tracks. I saved the project to the SD card. I did a Bounce in Place of every synth track to render them as audio tracks. So, that's 7 audio tracks playing.
What i don't know is if the bounced tracks play from the SD or from RAM. Even though i use Logic for as long as i can remember, i'm not very familiar with how those things operate inside the app.. Anyway, if it does play from the SD, that's quite impressive as the HD meter was barely registering anything, but there were some activity. I bought a 8Gb SDHC Class 6(whatever that means!!). I'll try this with a more consistent song soon and will report.
I find this very convenient if all goes well, as it will keep my system drive cleaner and clears a port on my MBP. Of course, this is for the hobbyist like me who doesn't do big productions and who do mainly MIDI stuff with AU and external synths.
Feel free to comment if you have a minute to kill!!

If the SD card shows up on the desktop as a drive, then there's no technical reason why Logic wouldn't at least try to record to it if you told it to. But I doubt it's the idea of the century, even for just a couple of tracks. If you want to spare up a USB or FireWire port, and you like the idea of "silent" recording.. then just use the internal drive of the MacBook Pro. It's not going to create any more noise than the computer already makes, and it certainly won't struggle to handle 2 or 3 tracks, or even 50 or 60 tracks. I really don't see the point of doing otherwise.
BTW if you want it to be even quieter still, then perhaps an SSD system drive would have been a good idea, because in that case, you won't have any drive noise from the computer at all. You'd have to be content with a smaller capacity drive though, and they cost more. But it's doable. You can even buy one later and quite easily swap out your current system drive, it's been made quite easy to do on the current MBPs AFAIK.

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Anybody tried this at home?

Hi all,
i just bought a Macbook Pro and i was wondering if anybody with the new gen of Pros tried recording to an SD card? Being a hobbyist doing mainly MIDI stuff with generally a max of 2 to 3 audio tracks on an average project, i'm thinking that it could be a great and silent way to work, and it would spare a USB port on the laptop.
Since companies like Boss and Tascam do 8-tracks recorders with that media, it should work, no? You could say:"Just buy one, dude, and try it" but if someone's experience can spare me the purchase of one only to discover that Logic doesn't even allow me to try it, that would be nice!!
So??? Thanks for your time.

If the SD card shows up on the desktop as a drive, then there's no technical reason why Logic wouldn't at least try to record to it if you told it to. But I doubt it's the idea of the century, even for just a couple of tracks. If you want to spare up a USB or FireWire port, and you like the idea of "silent" recording.. then just use the internal drive of the MacBook Pro. It's not going to create any more noise than the computer already makes, and it certainly won't struggle to handle 2 or 3 tracks, or even 50 or 60 tracks. I really don't see the point of doing otherwise.
BTW if you want it to be even quieter still, then perhaps an SSD system drive would have been a good idea, because in that case, you won't have any drive noise from the computer at all. You'd have to be content with a smaller capacity drive though, and they cost more. But it's doable. You can even buy one later and quite easily swap out your current system drive, it's been made quite easy to do on the current MBPs AFAIK.

Has anybody tried this multirow header JTable sample?

Hi,
http://www2.gol.com/users/tame/swing/examples/JTableExamples1.html
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Anybody tried this RAM?

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http://www.memorytogo.com/comp_modeldisp~srch~Apple-MacPro+Quad+Xeon+2%2E66GHz~mid~99591280.htm
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Cool! Let us know how it works, stress your Mac Pro and make sure you get NO errors! Seems memory for these Macs needs proper/sufficent cooling heat sinks to prevent over heating and causing memory erros and freezing.
Check this out:
Mac Pro owner notes on using standard FB-Dimms (with added heatsinks) - A reader with a Mac Pro that actually received his earlier Crucial memory order (they were removed from the compatibility list 2 days ago) sent a note that although he had an RMA to return them, he decided to try them after adding some additional (stick-on) VRAM heatsinks. He said after an hour of use he didn't notice any problems (or louder fans) but I asked him to test for several hours and he later wrote Apple System Profiler showed one of the Crucial dimms had 2 ECC ('soft') error corrections:
" DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1:
Size: 1 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz
Status: ECC Errors
ECC Correctable Errors: 2 "
There wasn't an alert on this, he was just monitoring it in ASP while running tests. He later said during stress tests he had another error/correction appear and the system froze once while repeatedly toggling expose. He said he's ordered some other heatsinks to try and is also moving those dimms from the bottom riser card to the top riser (swapping positions with the OEM dimms) to try and reduce heat. I wasn't sure if this was heat related or if that one dimm was suspect, but he later wrote:
" I have begun to wonder about the mac pro design. Why put the memory behind the hot cpu? Should be in front getting cold air blown on it....
Anyhow I repositioned the dimms so the crucial memory is on top and the apple memory on the bottom in hopes of reproducing the ecc error correction. No errors yet and I have been running stuff for a while. I am thinking the top is less hot as the heat flows out the top better. I still think the heatsinks tomorrow will fix for sure but we shall see. No problems so far. This might fix it.
(he later wrote)
Well I ran the mac pro with almost 100% processor utilization and used all the ram the whole time for about 9 hrs straight and no errors. I think moving it to the top slot fixed the heat issue.
(I asked Dave to confirm he has no complaints on fan speed/noise. I hear the Mac Pros are typically very quiet-Mike.)
... No fan speedup at all, ever infact. The dimms work great. It was just errors on that one dimm, but since I moved them nothing. I might have seated it wrong or something because the problem is gone.
-Dave "
I had originally suggested he return the dimms and wait for the 'revised' ones (mentioned in yesterday's Crucial's comments why Mac Pro ram listings were pulled & future plans), but he said he was told they were not going to support the Mac Pro. (I suspect the person he talked to just wasn't aware of their plans on this - but wrote my Micron contact again last night who confirmed the comments on future plans were still valid although the revised heatsink models will likely have higher prices.)
Update: Dave sent a photo of the modified dimm installed in an upper riser board.
If anyone else tries 3rd party FB-Dimms in their Mac Pro (either standard flat heatsink types or larger heatsink types like OWC's Mac Pro memory), let me know your experience.
(BTW - Most all readers with Mac Pros are only using the OEM RAM, but a 3GHz Mac Pro owner wrote he's going to test tonight with some 512MB Kingston (standard heatsink) FB-Dimms and report back. I've had several ram dealers write they've had no problems reported with standard FB-Dimms, although until Dave mentioned monitoring ASP for error corrections, nobody tested while checking that. I assumed from Apple's comments only potentially higher fan speeds would result from using the standard heatsinks, but nobody seems to have noticed any difference in fan speeds regardless so far. I wish Apple would have just used standard dimms...)
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Has anybody tried the Day-Timer iPhone App - Syncs. Calendar + Todo list?

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HT201342 I got a notice there is an icloud email reserved for me. It reads like I will get all my icloud mail in my .me acc't along with my me mail. Double of the mail? Has anyone tried this icloud mail yet?

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When trying to update apps i keep getting billing method incorrect(this is on iphone 4s) i hsve tried this store,apple id,view id,payment info but does not offer me the none option,i can npt update my phone any ideas anybody please?

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HT202213 Trying to activate home sharing with new iTunes update, says error #5506, any ideas? Worked great before this update!

I'm trying to use home sharing with the latest iTunes update. Keep getting error message 5506-any idea how to resolve this error and share at home?

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also saw 1 marked as correct answer... (just browse the discussion pages before you ask, this answer appearantly was sitting there from oct. 14...)
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Correct Answer by Peter Lepere on Oct 14, 2011 3:07 AM
Hi Rick,
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Success,
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