 Help! - What Gear Do I Need, new laptop setup for music |
 Sat 8 Dec 2007, 18:13
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Hello all,
I've been making music for many years, started with frootyloops.... then moved into real gear (mpc, digital multitracker, loop stations, synths etc.). Getting to the point: I want to go back to computer based music - basically to minimize wires and connections, and the fact that my gear could use an upgrade - multitracker is giving poor results (digital noise) and my mpc1000 is a huge piece of junk (sound output quality, and of course the pad issues with this machine). So i was thinking: Macbook 2ghz core 2 duo 2 gig ram 80gig hd (5400rpm) akai mpd24. So to record into this, will it be necessary to have an external soundcard? Will i require an external harddrive @ 7200rpm to record to? Will the above hardware have to be firewire? can they be daisychained? Is there a mac book (pro) that could handle my work load without all this extra gear? I'm really trying to minimize the amount of gear i need to carry around with me. Please help. MHB |
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 Sun 9 Dec 2007, 08:53
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 16-Jun 05 From: Baldwin Park - US Member No.: 66,858 |
QUOTE (mhb @ Sat 8 Dec 2007, 17:13)  Hello all, I've been making music for many years, started with frootyloops.... then moved into real gear (mpc, digital multitracker, loop stations, synths etc.). Getting to the point: I want to go back to computer based music - basically to minimize wires and connections, and the fact that my gear could use an upgrade - multitracker is giving poor results (digital noise) and my mpc1000 is a huge piece of junk (sound output quality, and of course the pad issues with this machine). So i was thinking: Macbook 2ghz core 2 duo 2 gig ram 80gig hd (5400rpm) akai mpd24. So to record into this, will it be necessary to have an external soundcard? Will i require an external harddrive @ 7200rpm to record to? Will the above hardware have to be firewire? can they be daisychained? Is there a mac book (pro) that could handle my work load without all this extra gear? I'm really trying to minimize the amount of gear i need to carry around with me. Please help. MHB no I do not think so on the audio card http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html says it has "Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)" and "Combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)" I would go with 160 on the HD and and 4 gig on the ram Working with loops and software instruments takes up space on the Mac HD I have a mac mini with 80g HD and 1g ram I have no room for my itunes Library and Garage band cry out for more memory,,, I would get a 200 GB external HD for back up purpose only. any other music you record you can xfer to CD or DVD |
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mhb Help! - What Gear Do I Need Sat 8 Dec 2007, 18:13
mortalengines Yes you will need an interface if you plan on reco... Sun 9 Dec 2007, 23:40
mhb QUOTE (mortalengines @ Sun 9 Dec 2007, 23... Tue 11 Dec 2007, 03:22 dixiechicken You should also try to have your harddrives both i... Mon 10 Dec 2007, 10:08 mortalengines Yeah what you have in mind sounds fine.....I curre... Wed 12 Dec 2007, 04:25 mortalengines Oh, and I just tried to add you as a friend at mys... Wed 12 Dec 2007, 04:44 |
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