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![]() Newbie Groupe : Members Messages : 5 Inscrit : 17 déc. 04 Lieu : Carolina - PR Membre no 56,785 ![]() |
hi every one .i realy need advise on powerbooks whats the pros and cons of having a laptop....i mention this question becuase i never own a latop before, all my life i have own mac destops to work for recording..but now i am traveling very often,and i need a portable recording setup.able to record 4 audio tracks at once,and playback 24 tracks,and do mostly drum sequencing and editing on the road..any advise on a 12 inch powerbook 1.3 ghz would be very helpful i want to know how much you can achive in terms track recording and plug-ins usage.how much ram do i need a external hardrive all those questions.also i dont get carry away using to many plug-ings on many applications i always concern about equipment limitaions and aviod conflits on their sistems.. any help would be appreciated.
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![]() Newbie Groupe : Members Messages : 1 Inscrit : 06 sept. 04 Lieu : Lisbon - PT Membre no 50,336 ![]() |
hi there.I have a powerbook,and i travel a lot.Well the main thing that is not to good in laptops is the speed of the disk(5400rpm) , which, for audio and images proposes is too slow,especially working with samplers and midi.You should buy an external firewire disk(try the smartdisk 40 gb-7200 rpm,it's very small and totally portable).I have projects with 24 audio tracks , but with 1 or too 2 midi tracks. The powerbooks can handle very well audio , but when you go to audio and midi projects the thing starts too get busy.
Hopefully Motu launched the Traveller, go and check it (www.motu.com) , it's ideal for travelling people. Powerbooks and Motu interfaces work damm fine ,you get very small latency even using the internal core audio properties. Oh my Powerbook is a 15 inch 667mhz with 1gb ram. the thing is , to try too release as much as possible the computer of hard processing. 1-So buy as much ram as possible 2-Get a good external audio interface (firewire or USB 2.0) (ex:Motu,Hammerfall) 3-A faster external disk for storage(even for safety reasons since portable computers can suffer damage during travelling so you can keep your projects in that disk) Bye,good journey |
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