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Using the PC for music and other stuuf

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3/12/1999 1:59 PM

Using the PC for music and other stuuf

Here is a simple tip for recording on a PC.

One way to get the best out of using a computer for music and games/word proc is to have a dual boot machine.
My setup involves having 2 primary win 98 partitions and a secondary data partition.
The first primary partition is used strictly for music: Cubase VST, plugins, editing and a minimum of WinCrap.
The second primary partition has all the other crud: games, word docs, excel, etc...
I use the third partition for data: recording audio, or anything else.
By the way the two primary partitions cannot see each other, but both have access to the data partition.

This has got to be the best setup I've discovered.

3/14/1999 7:39 AM

That's a nice trick setup.. I just have the 1 PC for now which has to do office duty, etc as well as music, but I've had good luck so far just taking a clean boot-up (from power off) and then using the task manager to make sure nothing else was running. (obviously my startup folder is empty..) I also made a big partition for recording audio/video only.

Have you (any of you) tried BeOS? Or other (?) multi-media non-traditional OS's? I'm getting my act together to build an audio-only PC, but I want to keep all my options open. Mac's run on the pricey side for me, and Windows runs on the unstable/bloated side for me.. but I'm leaning towards Win due purely to price/performance criteria. (building in the wintel model is cheap cheap cheap.)

Any advice/tips/warnings/etc would be most welcome!

4/4/1999 5:00 AM
Steve A.	Brian: So what utility program(s) do you need for your dual boot setup? And will that technique work with Win95 as well? Any details would be appreciated. Thanks for the idea! Steve Ahola

4/5/1999 5:59 AM
GFR	PQMagic (partition magic) comes with "Boot Manager". It will work with Win95, if you install it after installing Win95. If you try to install Win95 on a machine that already has Boot Manager the Win95 Setup will complain about it.

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