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I use my laptop harddrive (5400rpm) and an external FW400 320GB 7200rpm (3.5") with a 8MB cache (Lacie and WD, same spec).

I tend to not have huge numbers of tracks though. The externals are used for backup/library.

Thanks for the tip Robin.

I use a Firewire Audiophile M-Audio soundcard, so if ...

you should search, this question has been answered a few times.

I did. but did not find anything useful. The search mechanism for this forum is rather limited, and I never find what i am looking after (or it gives thousands of hits or it gives none).

If you could point me to the original posts ...

yeah.....combining the faderfoxes with midistroke or bomes means you can already do all the stuff you mention.....i've even got it set up to zoom in and out while scrolling through a clip.....

Can you explaing how do you get this working? Specially browsing the sample/wave/clip library.
What do ...

Hi there,

What kind of specs should I look for when shopping for an external HD to store my tracks/wavs for laptop DJing with Ableton Live?

Is USB enough? Firewire? 5400 or 7200 RPM? Any model/brand suggestions?

Regards,

G

It's the general thing that we need...

We can either beg for each of our controllers to be supported.
Or we can accept the fact that it just ain't going to happen anytime soon.

So the solution i suggest works for everybody.
Though it shouldn't stop there...

For an app called Live, there's way ...

Features I miss the most when using a MIDI controller (like Micromodul LV2) are:

1) Clip select
2) Track select
3) Browse and select the clip/wave library

MIDI Remote control of these would help a lot for mouse-free operation.
Accodringly to Mathias from Fadefox (builders of Micromodul), these ...