Help Me Get The Best Setup For Me.. Thanks Options

[shaneblyth]

I am totally new to Macs so new I have not bought one yet but want to in the next little while purely for Music.
I have a really good Keyboard Midi Synth, and a proffessional Mixer, PA, and Mics as well as an electric guitar and base.
I am a one man band who wants to record on this equipment using a MAC.. I dont expect to be selling my stuff but who knows one day

Can people suggest what is a good system to buy ?
and what about additional hardware ? I intend to be recoding only 1 audio track at a time so what should I use to interface with my external gear and MIDI . what spec of MAC would you suggest ?
and what would you recommend for software and why..

I know it is a big ask but you would be helping a soon to be EX PC user get into some good gear and systems finally where i can hopefully create some good quality Music.

Cheers I appreciate your time and input

Shane

[shaneblyth]

Er

I run LogicPro on a 1.25 ebook with max RAM and it starts to groan when you put space designer and a few other effects on - or more than a couple of VSTi's

I talked to the the Logic guys at a recent trade fair about Logic Pro - and they said basically you need a G5 with as much RAM as poss to get the best out of it.

As the software progresses they wll write it for the latest machines with the highest specs - yeah it will work on lower spec machines - but you lose a lot of the features - or it just grinds to a halt when you try and run them.

The problem with G4's is (amongst other things) there is a much lower limit to RAM.

External Firewire - yeah - don't ever use an internal IDE drive - not just for security (if your machine goes down you still have the data and can just plug it into another machine) - but performance is better.

Buy cheaper - buy twice.

an external firewire drive is quicker than another internal drive.. or did i missunderstand you

thanks