M-box, inquires Options

[lbdonp]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anybody had info on the m-box, I have a G4 powermac with 5 slots, 533 mhz.,sdram 128 mb, L2 cache 1mb, and running on OS X 10.2.6 (and a 15" studio display monitor, is it too small?) and looking for a soundcard for mpc and turntable stuff, with mic and instrument connections, and something to fit my budget around 500-600. The M-box seem's interesting, so does working with PT. How does the USB connection hold up? and do I need to get a pair of studio monitor speakers for that? I'm not limiting it to m-box alone, any info would be greatly appreciated. I also had an offer for a roland VM3100pro but not sure if it's supported by OS X, and rolands sound quality? thanx..

This post has been edited by lbdonp: Wed 21 May 2003, 08:19

[Synthetic]

  Well why don't Jantho post himself about the mBox if he is not happy about it I would be very interested to read his arguments

And for aokjoey man I didn't want to discourage you i am just afraid that you will run into trouble if you start to manipulate to much tracks w/o plugins that's all but as I mentionned earlier I am still a Newbie, the french forum is full of exchanges on the thread of purchasing the mBox if you can read french ( which I am)

Pesji

yeah... I wondered that myself as I got his comment emailed to the moderators as private message

as for G3 requirement... if you have ever run ProTools LE on a G3... a person would quickly see why as it takes lots of CPU cycles for automation and plugins. OSX will run on G3 but I have G3 350mhz B/W and its just too slow for OSX in my opinion. Unless you have the 800mhz G3's... the G3 is almost obsolete when you consider the requirements from new system apps or music apps. That is why sometimes is just as good to keep an older OS and older apps if you have a dated machine as myself. Its nice to have newer technology and more features but when it requires you to upgrade hardware constantly to keep up... then you have to step back and ask yourself if its worth it at that point in your computer life and financial situation.

With that being said... I run Digi001 on my 350mhz G3 and it works fine except it can't handle too many plugs and reverb plugs really tax the CPU a lot. I still am able to do mostly anything I want in PTLE but I just have to watch how many plugs and automation I use or it will bog down and cause me problems.

This post has been edited by Synthetic: Sun 15 Jun 2003, 17:57