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 Fri 7 May 2004, 19:32
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I'm thinking of purchasing a 12" powerbook with 1gig of ram and 1ghz processor but i'm wondering if it will be able to run reason 2.5 rewired to SX and run reaktor without any problems? Any information will be much appreciated.
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Fri 7 May 2004, 19:43
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you should have no problems speed wise
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<span style='font-size:18pt;line-height:100%'>Synthetic Tone</span> Click above for totally original electronic music, art, & photos. Click below to become an active member of the MacMusic.org site.. <span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Become An Active Member</span> G4 550mhz Tibook & Brand Spankin New Dual G5 2Ghz Power Mac with Tiger. So long old OS9 apps :( |
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 Fri 7 May 2004, 23:39
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I have a 12inch Powerbook, you should be alright with everything except SX. (editorial comment) SX's performance was so poor that I moved my license to my PC. After 8-10 tracks it would choke my powerbook. Same machine can easily do sessions of 32-48 tracks with Logic6 or DP4.
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Sat 8 May 2004, 03:53
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Maniac Member Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 25-Jun 01 From: Springfield - US Member No.: 1,082 |
gdoub... what were you using for a harddrive for the SX? Its possible that maybe just the internal drive was your limiting factor for track count more so than processor speed. I highgly recommmend a nice and fast external drive for any serious DAW station rather than using same internal drive loaded with system software and such for best performance
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<span style='font-size:18pt;line-height:100%'>Synthetic Tone</span> Click above for totally original electronic music, art, & photos. Click below to become an active member of the MacMusic.org site.. <span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Become An Active Member</span> G4 550mhz Tibook & Brand Spankin New Dual G5 2Ghz Power Mac with Tiger. So long old OS9 apps :( |
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 Mon 10 May 2004, 19:17
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Maniac Member Group: Members Posts: 899 Joined: 12-Oct 01 From: Kirkland Member No.: 2,002 |
I have a Pro Tool certified FW drive from Pacific Pro Audio. It can easily do 60 24bit tracks.
http://www.pacificproaudio.com SX's poor performance is obvious when compared to my other DAWs DP4, and Logic6, no contest. -------------------- G-Dub
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Tue 11 May 2004, 06:55
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 05-Apr 04 From: Vancouver - CA Member No.: 40,223 |
 I own a 12" 800MHz G3 laptop & have just completed a 32 track song for this Lamb remix competition using Cubase SX with Reason rewired into it,, and she chewed through the mix just fine! As long as you have lots of RAM you should be pretty darn happy with anything better than my G3 800Mhz. Hear the song here http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?CONTENT_ID=126585...93&page=content I wonder how many VST's you guys must all be loading as inserts into each one of your tracks to have such overload problems? LOL 
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Wed 12 May 2004, 04:58
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Soundsmitten. Listened to your song. Moving, beautiful, and clean.
Excellent job. -------------------- "...I just don't know...it sounds funny."
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