It is nice to think that one could just go and buy any computer, install a
bit of software on it and start using it to record and create music. This
idea isn't necessarily wrong, but there are some important details that it
- misses. Any computer that that can be bought today (since somewhere around
+ misses. Any computer that can be bought today (since somewhere around
the end of 2012) is capable of recording and processing a lot of audio data.
It will come with a builtin audio interface that can accept inputs from
microphones and/or electrical instruments; it will have a disk with a huge
situations than one without.</td></tr>
<tr><th>Excessive vibration</th>
<td>This doesn't affect the flow of data to or from the audio interface, but
- it can cause the flow of data to and from disk storage to become
+ it can cause the flow of data to and from (spinning) disk storage to become
<em>much</em> slower. If a computer going to be used in an environment with
loud live sound (specifically, high bass volume), make sure it is placed so
that the disk is not subjected to noticeable vibration. The vibrations will
physically displace the read-write heads of disk, and the resulting errors
will force a retry of the reading from the disk. Retrying over and over
massively reduces the rate at which data can be read from the disk. Avoid
- this.</td></tr>
+ this.If you find this hard to believe, check
+ out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4">this
+ video</a> which shows the effects of merely shouting at your drives. This
+ is likely not an issue with contemporary SSD drives, which have no
+ spinning/head mechanisms.</td></tr>
</table>
+
<p>
Richard Ames presents a long (28
minute) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsLLEkswzE">video</a>
that is very helpful if you want to understand these issues in more
- depth. It is a little bit Windows-centric, but the explanations to
+ depth. It is a little bit Windows-centric, but the explanations apply to
all types of computers and operating systems.
</p>
+