 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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Wed 12 Dec 2007, 04:25
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 Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 479 Joined: 08-May 05 From: Portland - US Member No.: 65,373 |
Yeah what you have in mind sounds fine.....I currently run Ableton Live 6 on a G4 Powerbook that is getting a little long in the tooth but, hey....it works great and I am just not ready to throw down 18 to 2500 bucks on a new mac if the old one is still meeting my needs. The loops would run off of the external hard drive (I have a few loops on my laptop's system drive that I haven't got around to moving and they don't really interfere but I save "self contained" to my external HD as soon as I start building a piece). The idea is that your Mac's HD is an OS and applications drive and your external is your "read/write" drive.
I am really glad you like the tunes....I am heading over to your space next. I have some other tunes that are done but won't be up on myspace until I get some artwork together for the CD release. Check em out: http://www.earritation.net/index.php?optio...&Itemid=186 if that doesn't work just go to earritation.net and search under "members" for Mortal Engines. Good luck! |
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mhb Help! - What Gear Do I Need Sat 8 Dec 2007, 18:13
BoStar QUOTE (mhb @ Sat 8 Dec 2007, 17:13) Hello... Sun 9 Dec 2007, 08:53 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 Oh, and I just tried to add you as a friend at mys... Wed 12 Dec 2007, 04:44 |
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