Audio computers and networks

[sonicmook56]

the past few monthes I have been working on the network here at the studio. Removing old apple talk crap, hubs that go nowhere, black boxes with no labels. Now that the topoligy is good, I thought I might try to expand on it a bit. so I found a old G4 on the way to the trash that I turned into a "server" with an HTML human interface to serve .pdf files. Mostly recall sheets, floor plans, label templates, other assistant stuff. Just wondering if people are useing networks for remote audio data storage, or if anyone has setup a searchable database of samples on a server. I think this would be cool, and want to try and get somthing going like this here.

[JGriffin]

We archive all of our sessions to a big server, as well as a big chunk of our sfx library. Works pretty well, we can audition stuff into ProTools from the network with no problem, and it's very easy to bring part or all of an old session "back from the dead" within minutes. We also use it for moving files between rooms. That's a little odd since 2 of our rooms run Avid/PT on a PC and one room runs on a mac, and the PCs can only see certain servers...but we work around that.

[joel hamilton]

The searchable Sample database is a great Idea, ben.

[sonicmook56]

this looks cool, maybe a bit overkill for what I had in mind, and a lot more expensive that I had in mind too..

http://www.soundminer.com

[tateeskew]

this looks cool, maybe a bit overkill for what I had in mind, and a lot more expensive that I had in mind too..

http://www.soundminer.com

this functionality is built right into SawStudio. it's pretty impressive.

[sonicmook56]

SawStudio looks really cool, but switching DAW's is not an option at all.

I just upgraded the studio's tape library from Filemaker pro 5 to version 7.

Version seven lets you databace audio files, and create HTML search interfaces instantly. Im foolin' around with this function..seems like it might work for me.

file maker pro is a very cool program.