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hotpants from Delhi on 2001-12-14 06:29 [#00060719] | |||||||||
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Hey. I'm thinking of buying a laptop so i can sample my own drum breaks from my kit, loop em, use my 303, fuck around and have some fun. Thing is I don't know how powerful a laptop I need. I have been spyin this P166 MMX, its old, but do I really need a PIII or above? Besides, it's well cheap. Actually thats my dominant consideration now, $$$. What do you think? Should I get the MMX (its around 500 CAD) or spent the money and get something more recent? Oh yeah, the MMX is new in the box, not used, has a CDROM, ethernet card, TFT monitor, FDD, not bad I reckon. Comments appreciated. |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 07:03 [#00060733] | |||||||||
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sample? As soon as you start fucking around with audio - the more speed, and umpf you get, the better. For midi even a 486 would be sufficient. Having said this - i think what you are talking about should be ok as a sort of minimum set up (check program recommendations for whatever you use) - but a crap load of Ram is recommended? Suppose it depends HOW many effect n that you want to put on and how patient/impatient you are? |
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hotpants from Delhi on 2001-12-14 07:44 [#00060738] | |||||||||
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its 64 megs of ram. yeah, sample my own breaks, lay down my tracks. most of the stuff i wanna do is straight from outside sounds, so yeah, sample. i hope i make sense. anyway, tnaks for the response, |
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dosle from technodump.com on 2001-12-14 09:33 [#00060753] | |||||||||
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if you have alot to splurge: sony vaio GR series custom 40gig hd 1.2ghz 512mb ram crap load media ports ------ just ordered one ($3,800) because i'm going on the road soon. its going to be everything i need besides the midi gear in a nice package. :D |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 11:36 [#00060783] | |||||||||
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either way - you'd want more than 64 if you want to do reasonable audio manipulation and that. 128 or 256 - or more ? What program would you use to do the audio stuff with - this is kind of a crucial factor ? |
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hotpants from Delhi on 2001-12-14 11:53 [#00060787] | |||||||||
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I don't know what software, I reckon I'd figure it out as I went along. Any suggestions? |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 12:10 [#00060792] | |||||||||
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Well, see this is a bit of a catch 22 - if you get the laptop and then find you can't run any decent software (which i think you still could - even if it was a little sluggish), or if you get um .. ok - maybe its not a catch 22 ? etc. Um.. if it is pure audio stuff you are doing - like cutting up beats, reversing, pitch bending, delay, timestrech that kind of thing - i would recommend you check out PROTOOLS FREE at www.digidesign.com - quite demanding on the ram -- and not compatible with all system softwares .. but its free!! Um.. so - you would be feeding the sounds in - and the playing around with them on the computer? Or do you also want to generate the sounds within the computer - this is where vst or so could come in handy - I know a lot of people that don't use vst and make some really good music - but I'm a bit of a fan. ? Um .. what do you want to / be able to do? |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 12:14 [#00060795] | |||||||||
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Protools free is probably - eventually ? best combined with something that has half decent midi capabilities - eg. Fruityloops (probably the most cost efficient option), um .. or there is always Cubase, Logic Audio, Sonar - here in NZ you can get a student discount - which makes these also quite a viable option - but I wouldn't recommend getting these full price ??? I don't know .. i mean see for yourself - but these are just a few suggestions n that. Computer music - www.computermusic.co.uk is pretty good - has begginer/intermediate/advanced level info - so you can read up about basics or not so basics ?? |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 12:31 [#00060804] | |||||||||
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Could always get your hands on Logic Micro - or Cubasis AV [not Cubasis] (pretty average) but ok to compile arrangements - should be able to get them for free - somewhere? |
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hotpants from Delhi on 2001-12-14 13:00 [#00060812] | |||||||||
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id be feeding sound in, taking pieces i like, screwing with them. i want the laptop more as a sequencer than anything else, on top of which i can use my 303 for analoguey stuff (i like knobs), i dont know what that will demand on my pc for ram. as well, i wonder how good the sound card has to be? pretty good i reckon |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 13:21 [#00060820] | |||||||||
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Just a question - why does it have to be a laptop you get A LOT more for your money if you get a desktop - Ram is cheaper, sound cards better value - etc. etc. ??? Yeah - soundcards are nice - I don't know .. depends how much you like clean production - and how much $'s you got to splosh n splash around ?? |
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hotpants from Delhi on 2001-12-14 14:05 [#00060824] | |||||||||
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cos i dont plan to be in one place for more than 6 months for the next 2 or 3 years but i hear so many amazing things around whatever country im in i need to do something with them. india has so many awesome samples and sounds i dont even want to get started about it |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-14 14:19 [#00060828] | |||||||||
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:) |
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Dirtypriest from Denmark on 2001-12-15 15:22 [#00061210] | |||||||||
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That computer should be ridicously cheap, so i would reccomend that you bought it. it should function.... but slowly. Cooledit editing will go slow as fuck, and perhaps the sequincing will hack a bit. You are gonna get anyoed, and buy something else after a couple of weeks :) |
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Quoth from Lincoln on 2001-12-15 19:02 [#00061233] | |||||||||
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dosle: is that the Sony Vaio that is as big and as light weight as a very small paper back book? My bro has that... it's a very very very fucking nice laptop |
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Jedi Chris from Coruscant on 2001-12-15 23:15 [#00061263] | |||||||||
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I agree the Sony Vaio laptops are the business! I have one myself - the screens on them are by far the best of all laptop flat tft panels!! |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-16 02:38 [#00061275] | |||||||||
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YOu could always get the laptop you speak of - and get a DSP powered sound card (quite expensive tho) - and I don't know how many exists for PCMIA or whatever ??? But the DSP chip does like the bulk of the audio processing - so your laptop should be fine doing the midi stuff, and come crunch time - DSP kicks in ? Mind you - VAIO or so is pretty damn good (no need for DSP) ??? |
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Scary Bear on 2001-12-16 16:54 [#00061373] | |||||||||
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Sorry, I couldn't be arsed to read the above so this may already have been said... I seem to remember reading somewhere that RDJ uses a souped up G4. What is that?? |
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