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Posted by: BreakMeDown Fri 7 May 2004, 19:32

I'm thinking of purchasing a 12" powerbook with 1gig of ram and 1ghz processor but i'm wondering if it will be able to run reason 2.5 rewired to SX and run reaktor without any problems? Any information will be much appreciated.

thanks.

Tom.

Posted by: Synthetic Fri 7 May 2004, 19:43

you should have no problems speed wise

Posted by: gdoubleyou Fri 7 May 2004, 23:39

I have a 12inch Powerbook, you should be alright with everything except SX.

(editorial comment) SX's performance was so poor that I moved my license to my PC. After 8-10 tracks it would choke my powerbook.

Same machine can easily do sessions of 32-48 tracks with Logic6 or DP4.

Posted by: Synthetic Sat 8 May 2004, 03:53

gdoub... what were you using for a harddrive for the SX? Its possible that maybe just the internal drive was your limiting factor for track count more so than processor speed. I highgly recommmend a nice and fast external drive for any serious DAW station rather than using same internal drive loaded with system software and such for best performance

Posted by: gdoubleyou Mon 10 May 2004, 19:17

I have a Pro Tool certified FW drive from Pacific Pro Audio. It can easily do 60 24bit tracks.
http://nav.440network.com/out.php?mmsc=forums&url=http://www.pacificproaudio.com

SX's poor performance is obvious when compared to my other DAWs DP4, and Logic6, no contest.

Posted by: soundsmitten Tue 11 May 2004, 06:55

I own a 12" 800MHz G3 laptop & have just completed a 32 track song for this Lamb remix competition using Cubase SX with Reason rewired into it,, and she chewed through the mix just fine! As long as you have lots of RAM you should be pretty darn happy with anything better than my G3 800Mhz.

Hear the song here
http://nav.440network.com/out.php?mmsc=forums&url=http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?CONTENT_ID=126585&FILTER_KEY=562293&page=content

I wonder how many VST's you guys must all be loading as inserts into each one of your tracks to have such overload problems? LOL

Posted by: terrywil Wed 12 May 2004, 04:58

Soundsmitten. Listened to your song. Moving, beautiful, and clean.
Excellent job.