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I am just about ready to upgrade to 2010. At present I am running 2008.5 PlusPak. The UltraPak appears to be a great value considering all the RealTracks that are included. Even if I just bought the RealTracks that I absolutely need, it would cost well over the $299 that I can get the UltraPak for through upgrade. That and I like the idea of RealBand.
Presently I am exporting audio from BIAB and pulling that into Cubase so that I can play along using my Lexicon Alpha interface. The RealBand option looks to give lots more flexibility with regard to the individual tracks. Right now I am locked in once I export the audio from BIAB. I have some option though, I can export individual audio tracks from BIAB and assemble it all in Cubase. That leaves room to try different RT's or change them up later if I want without regenerating everything. But that is time consuming and a workflow stopper of sorts. RealBand can generate the RT's right? I believe that is the case. If so, that allows for a lot more flexibility.
I was curious about the 160GB HD that is included. Specifically, when running from it are there any performance problems? Is it better to install it to the hard drive of your computer? I have plenty of room. Right now I have a 500GB drive partitioned with Vista and Linux(Kubuntu). Vista has 200GB and Kubuntu has the rest.
I believe the UtraPak ends up being 80GB, right? If so, then I have plenty of room. The Vista install is a clean install with nothing added yet, other than service packs.
Also, I was wondering what brand is the HD? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Donnie
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My install with XP and some other music programs uses about 100 gig. My songs stored on another drive are 40 gig. If it was me I put in the Linux live CD and fire up GParted and shirk the Kubuntu partition and then format the unallocated space as NTFS for use with Vista. Do not try and expand the Vista partition. It may not like it and really mess you up.
You could also just run it from the USB drive but first make a backup.
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What brand is the USB hard drive that you received, if I may ask? Transfer rate, etc?
Ok, I may just shrink the Linux partition and go 50/50 on them. Yes, expanding Vista/Windows can be problematic, been there, done that. As for GParted, I have used it and it is easy to shrink a Linux partition with it. I may wait and copy everything off the USB drive and see what I have left in Vista and go from there. BIAB is the only thing I use under Windows. I game from time to time, but I generally dont keep multiple games installed.
On a side not shrinking Vista is easy from within Vista. I did that when I first started experimenting with Linux. But, depending on pagefile, fragmentation and other things, Windows does not like to release everything that is available. Seems to want to write boot files right in the middle of the drive. What I did was use the LiveCD and wiped the hard drive clean, save for the Vista recovery partition. I formatted 200 NTFS and the remaining ext4. Reinstalled Vista, then Linux. I like the Linux bootloader better than the Windows loader, so I didnt restore the Win bootloader.
Donnie
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Ok. Just placed the order over the phone. Spoke to a very nice gentleman named Will. I was expecting to have to wait until next week sometime to play with this. But, because of where I live and the express shipping they use for this package, Will said it would be here tomorrow!!
I think I will go ahead and set the partitions to 50/50 tonight.
Donnie
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