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 Sun 15 May 2005, 03:42
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hey all...new here to the mac music forum...was seeking some advice on getting started. i'm thinking about getting an imac g5 for school as i will be majoring in music with a recording emphasis most likely. im guessing i will probably start learning mic techniques and the ins and outs of pro tools my 2nd or 3rd year. this will be used for school (word processing, presentations, etc.), making electronic music (not hard trance stuff...more downtempo/trip-hop like bjork, radiohead, boards of canada, etc.), and recording. here are the specs with a student discount:
$1,399.00 17-inch widescreen LCD 2GHz PowerPC G5 667MHz frontside bus 512K L2 cache 512MB DDR400 SDRAM 160GB Serial ATA hard drive Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (double-layer) ATI Radeon 9600 128MB DDR video memory 56K internal modem i know i need to upgrade the RAM...i think if i order online, i can upgrade the RAM to: 1GB - 2 DIMMs for $112 1GB - 1 DIMM for $157 2GB - 2 DIMMs for $427 don't understand the 1/2 DIMMs, anyone know about this? not sure which one to choose out of these three. do you think the 160GB 7200rpm hard drive will be ok? as far as speakers, should i be getting low-mid price range monitors or just high quality stereo speakers and a sub? as far as software goes, i'm thinking about pursuing the MBox with protools LE and ableton live lite 4 and reason adapted. i'll probably get an edirol pcr-a30 for a midi controller as well. can i use reason and ableton and pro tools all at the same time? does ableton support midi? i'll probably end up getting recycle for some editing too. any other software options? all comments/suggestions are welcome. thanks in advance for your help, greg |
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Tue 17 May 2005, 01:20
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 21-Feb 03 From: Providence - US Member No.: 12,850 |
I'll agree there. Pro Tools IS elegant. What is not so elegant is the Mbox hahaha. I think the 002s are ok. Sorta high CPU usage still, but not that bad. I guess i am coming at it from more of a realtime performance standpoint than a strictly studio standpoint. Pro Tools does have definite advantages in the area of streamlined interface and often you dont have to think about what you are doing - it just comes naturally. Thats good for many things, but it lacks flexibility sometimes. But this is a crazy MaxMSP guy talking!
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•• digitally augmented trumpet, TOOB, flugelhorn, cracklebox, percussicube, no-input-mixers and Macbook Pro, 2.4 GHz 15", MacOS 10.5, MOTU Ultralite, Logic Studio 9, MaxMSP 5, JackOSX •• •• Electronic-experimental, jazz, digital instrument design, electronics, unique software and performance.•• |
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sleepparalyzed Mac For School/recording Sun 15 May 2005, 03:42
arvidtp just beware the Mbox: its drivers and the hardware... Sun 15 May 2005, 15:38 sleepparalyzed i think the m-powered and a firewire interface is ... Sun 15 May 2005, 19:03 arvidtp i was a pro tools guy, but now i use logic 6.4 for... Sun 15 May 2005, 19:09 Bloot I've been exceptionally happy with protools - ... Tue 17 May 2005, 00:29
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