Your music studio needs a NAS! here’s why (Synology Setup for producers)

Here's why you need a NAS in your music studio setup whether that's a beginner music studio at home or a multi million dollar A level music studio.
Thanks to Synology for sending me the DS1621+ to test out in my home studio.

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Timestamps if ya want them:
0:00 Intro - The best way to up your studio management game
0:51 What is a NAS
1:10 Unboxing the Synology NAS
3 Main reasons you need one in the studio
1:47 (1) Peace of Mind
3:43 (2) Versatility
7:26 A quick look at the Software
9:14 the best YouTube channels for learning about NAS systems
9:43 (3) Professionalism
11:20 My Setup Overview
13:13 Outro - thanks for watching

Tags: music studio setup, home music studio, how to use a NAS, NAS compares, NAS setup guide, NAS for music, NAS for music producers, how to use a Synology NAS, Synology review, NAS DS1621+, Spacerex, Spacerex NAS review

[dadsonanand]

Can it work for samples ? To load & store samples? Kontakt, omnisphere, all….?

[AdrianEarnshawMusic]

Great video and as a fellow musician I use a Synology in my studio, one of the best investments I ever made. One thing to mention, RAID is not a backup and only provides redundancy. You still need to ensure there is an off-site backup in case the worst ever happens. Any projects I have done in the last 12 months are backed-up off-site in the cloud. Anything else is archived on two separate drives and stored off-site. It may sound overkill, but at least you will have access to your old archived music projects.

[rlibby]

I like the video but I was really hoping for a demonstration of workflow with an emphasis on version control. For example if your NAS connection and processing involved WEREN"T good enough to edit directly from the NAS, and/or the project is just too complex, does your collaborator have to download all the files in the project folder, work on them, save a new project with maybe some new audio files, and then what? Do they have to hunt and peck all the new files and add those back to the NAS or just add them all to a new folder, or what? I'd like to prevent having multiple copies of the same audio files constantly being downloaded and uploaded at every handoff. But I'd also like to prevent having to hand pick each of the new files from several existing or new folders and then handpicking where those files should go back on the NAS.

[iambradarthur]

yo :) upgrade your storage now, don't lose your data, thank me later 💙
All the links to the storage products video I have made and the devices I recommend are in the description.
Thanks Synology for sending me the DS1621+ to test out and keep. I wasn't paid to make this video, I just like the Synology systems

Timestamps if ya want them:
0:00 Intro - The best way to up your studio management game
0:51 What is a NAS
1:10 Unboxing the Synology NAS
3 Main reasons you need one in the studio
1:47 (1) Peace of Mind
3:43 (2) Versatility
7:26 A quick look at the Software
9:14 the best YouTube channels for learning about NAS systems
9:43 (3) Professionalism
11:20 My Setup Overview
13:13 Outro - thanks for watching

[anaphylastiks]

I came across this video trying to figure out how I could use a server in music production.
I don't make songs I work live, have never lost a sample I didn't delete. Lost months of work in a second more times than I can count.

[dayzaudio]

Great video on the topic! What about cloud backup - what have you done using it for that? as in disaster recovery and having multiple backups in different places off site using Synology? And do the bays or racks offer anything useful for music and video storage? or is it just form factor and expansion that you know? ... thanks liked/subscribed!

[matthewpiatt]

thanks for the video! a bit random: couldn't help but notice your fancy white Kali Audio LP-6 monitors. i also have these and love them. looks like the corners of the covers are peeling back a bit (mine are too -- bummer)

[jacekhajnrych]

How about access time? Is it fast enough for working with large audio libraries like Opus? What network connection do you use? With 1 Gbps the transfer rate is quite low when you load big projects. Network protocols are not enough for large orchestral arrangement and working with low latencies in my opinion... What do you think about it?

[hicham]

Nice video! Question: Why do you use an external HDD that you connect via USB instead of working directly from the NAS using something like RAID 1 for example? It seems like a little bit of an extra hassle to backup the external HDD once in a while

[blackmetalblackmass]

Great video!
I have loads of sample packs and sound libraries for music production, I work off of an external SSD. Would a NAS be fast enough to load all of my sound libraries and strictly use that for production? I know you said you use an external, but you also said you can work from the NAS directly in video editing.

[machineagevoodoo]

Nice video - What about read/write of audio files on the NAS from within the DAW, fast enough?

[jeibar]

Hey mate, thanks for the video, I’m running out of storage in my studio and I came across with all the NAS concept .

I just have a quick question, is it possible to install the komplete 14 libraries in the NAS and use them in an ableton project anywhere ? .

Which means I wouldn’t need an external hard drive with me at all, just a good internet connection?

I want to be able to open my ableton projects and work anywhere without needing to move a 12 TB hard drive with me every time I go on tour . Cheers

[BlazonStone]

What if you are somewhere without internet access?
I dont trust these things