Track count

I have the following set-up: powerbook G4 1.67Ghz,2gig ram, motu 828mkII fw 400 interface, owc fw800 600 gig raid array outboard hard drive, Logic 7.2 and I need to know what kind of track count,recording live audio, can I expect at 24bit 48Khz ... are there known issues regarding the fw bus (using both the fw 400 and fw 800 bus connections on my powerbook)? Should I "daisy chain" the motu 828 and the hard drive to expand the track count?...thanks for any help...I need to be able to ***** this situation before I am forced to upgrade my laptop to a macbook pro for a few thousand dollars...
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I'm using a g5 quad with 2.5gb of ram. So far I've got 24 garritan instrument tracks running and the computer is not even breaking a sweat....So it is nice to not have to worry about track count-----that is what the g5 quad has done for me.......on a separate note---I use the ibook g4 with 512ram to play live---I get about 10 - 15 instrument tracks before overload----but the ibook g4 has a slower harddrive and we are only talking 512ram with a single g4 proccessor I think you will be pleased with your upgrade----good luck...

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a higher SR. Of course, writing requires more work
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to your system drive, or if your free disk space is
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J
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Hi, I've searched this forum and haven't been able to solve this yet.
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Message was edited by: Ryan Campbell4

Ryan:
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I've just re-titled a question I posted this morning :-
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dick the flick wrote:
This is really interesting. I've naively been using 256 the whole time. Just finishing a movie score in 5.1 (for the first time away from Logic /TDM combination) ...... and couldn't understand why the PLAY french horns sounded like they'd been badly pitch changed when I added some HD space designer reverb ..... is could that also be a symptom of wrongly set i/o buffer?
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.... if running lots of audio with huge track counts ..... set the buffer higher but don't necessarily use the plugin samplers live?
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