Digi 002 And Mac, what mac to buy? Options

[Mikkel]

I'm about to buy my first mac! But I'm confused and I need some help to sort out how much power I need. I´ve been used to work with the digi 001 on a 2,4 ghz pc (mainly recording 2-3 tracks simultaneously adding plug-ins afterwards) and now I've decided to switch to mac and go for the digi 002 rack. What I want is a good, fast system I can rely on.

And here's my question: What do I need to run the digi 002 rack properly? I've been told that PT generally runs best on dual processor macs - is this a lie? Is a tower (dual?) G4 enough or should I go for the new G5?

Thanx

[Daniel LaPlaca]

I recently got the Digi 002 Rack and moved all my music and sound over to X from 9, I also got a g5 dual 1.8, I must say I love it, PT in X is sooooo nice... I think you will be fine on the g4, seems to have more than enough power for PT and 002, and all your plugs.

One thing, I have the Roland JP8080, and the Proteus 2000, in PT 5.x I hade OMS set up all nice, and in PT I could easily go through all the banks of sounds on each synth with no problem. Midi in X is nice, and seemless, BUT, I cant get the Patch names for my synths to show up in PT 6.2.2. the Lib/Audio/Midi Patch names has the Proteus 2000 list in there, but PT says its not the right name for the device, and the JP 8080 isnt there- thats not a huge surprise -OMS never had it either I just slaved it off the JP8000 - same thing really. I did some research and found that Midi in X is all XML which is cool. and I found some sites that do the conversion of OMS names to XML but they didnt seem to work,(http://www.sonosphere.com/MusicSoftware/MIDINames/) Does anyone know where I can get the Patch names for these synths that work?? I like to be able to rapidly scroll through all the sounds, in all the banks on my synths to find that "sound I need right now" through protools. Or maybe I am missing something. Is there something I need to do to see the list in PT??

Thanks for the help! - this place rocks,

Blind Ruckus