Titanium G4/500 For Audio Recording? Options

[ssagala]

Hello all,

I have decided to kick the PC habit and migrate to a mac for my audio work. The trouble is the macs are rather expensive. Yes, yes i know you get a lot more stablility, compatablility etc with a mac but unfortunately my back manager does not see things my way.

I am looking to buy a refurbished titanium powerbook g4/500 wit a 10 GB hard drive and 128 MB RAM. Are these specs too low to run say digital performer? Do you recommend a used laptop to sequence midi and record audio with? Spce is an issue with me so i try and save it where i can.

I appreciate your input

[The King of Hell...]

Hello there,
I think that your set up is good enough to record and playback audio without any problems, as usual (and it is a cliche I know) it all depends on what you want to do.In theory a Powerbook g4, 500 MHz working with a Motu 828 should not give you any problems for an average project.I would recommend a couple of things though, firstly max out the amount of RAM (you said you had 128 MB of RAM, 256 MB of RAM it is the minimum required, check out the system requirements for DP 3 and DP 4 here, http://www.motu.com/english/software/dp/dp....html).Secondly I would try to get an external Firewire hardrive running at 7200 r.p.m. to record and playback your audio from there.

If you do this couple of things you have a good recording setup, but bear in mind what you want to do with it as well.If you want to record 8 tracks simultaneously at say 24 bit, 96 Khz while playing back 12 tracks with plug-ins and reverbs all over the place surely it will not handle it!!!!

I hope it helps!!!