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For playing live. Do i go mac or windows? All i will use it for [pretty much] is music. Also, what software to people use to play live? Give me laptop ideas. I have a grand |
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if you only have a thousand you'll probably have to settle for a pc. |
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i have a pc worth over 3 and a half grand. I want a laptop damnit |
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mac is supposedly better for doing sound/video stuff |
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fuck! |
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yes, but the trouble is finding a mac laptop under a thousand |
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NOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
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laptops are more expensive and more crap than pc's for the same price |
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its true. I can hardly wield my PC to gigs though, its a monster of a machine. I need a laptooooooooooooooooooop. Maybe i'll rob a damn bank |
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You have a grand? Get some technics 1210s and buy the laptop in a pub in chelmsey wood for £100 |
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acer travelmate 661, 1400 bucks though |
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Hmm. I've been entertaining this idea, too... but I am broke. |
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Why waste money on Technics? There's far better decks out there now. |
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I don't agree... there may be decks with more features etc, but technics last forever and are so reliable, to me they are like the Marshall stack amp or Gibson Les Paul of turntables... I wouldn't want anything else (still ain't got em either!) |
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I don't like the pitch waver around 0% on mk2s and mk3s (and more recent models) aren't old enough to be proven as durable yet... |
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I think in their day they were the top dog and they're still an alright deck. I wouldn't choose a deck on it's abilities to do 50% and backwards stuff. Backwards is a laugh but not really that useful really. Very few tunes would sounds right backwards for starters. Technics also seem to be riding on their name of late. I mean what the fuck is the point of the MK5's? There's bascially no improvements over the previous models. They've done nothing to the design to improve it in years. I know things shouldn't change for the sake of it but there's little annoyances with them that add up to a whole big annoyance with me. Maybe I'm easily annoyed. |
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I'd go with Ableton Live, it's a great software for playing live sets. I would prefer a mac laptop but it depends on your budget. |
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To be honest I don't keep up with the newer models coming out and all that, all I know is I have used technics that are decades old and still work perfectly... the pitch thing at zero can be a pain but I can live with that. When I get some i'll get 2nd hand mk 1s probably. |
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" Backwards is a laugh but not really that useful really. Very few tunes would sounds right backwards for starters." *whispers* "Boards of Canada..." To be serious I don't use the backwards feature for anything 'cept turntabilism. The tracking does own though. |
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and sorry to go on (I'll leave it at this for today or I'll not shut up about it ;), but the +-50% is very useful for playing a tune using a single tone on an fx record... again only really useful for turntabilism, +-12% is fine for beatmixing. |
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pah, in my day we had to do rewinds by hand and all we could afford were belt drive sound labs ;) Maybe i'm wrong I dunno technics are just standard issue I spose... are Vestax much cheaper? |
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You're not wrong you just have a different opinion :) |
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Nope! Vestax cost the same as technics (give or take £10). I actually could of got some mark 3s for £50 less (for the pair) than my vestax due to a company discount... they are not cheap substitutes :) Last time I played out properly I mentioned to the other DJ we'd be using PDX2000s and he was saying it was a shame that they weren't mk3s as they were his favourite. 20 minutes into his set he called me over as I was walking by and said using them had changed his perception of technics entirely. The torque is incredible and when you press stop, they really do stop staight away. |
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Yep- it's just like any other instrument. Prince prefers Vestax (they made guitars under another name) guitars, whereas Fender are the popular choice. It's just a shame when people write off a particular sort without ever having used one for any length of time. |
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They have the shorter straight arm as well eh? Ah well i'll see, I haven't got the money anyway... bah! |
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I'm sitting here typing on my brand new Powerbook G4 :) I reccomend one of those, expensive though... but well worth it, OSX is so much nicer to use than Windows, and it never crashes. |
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you can probably find one of the 12" alluminium Powerbook G4's on ebay for about a thousand, or even a recent 15" titanium model. |
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all the best musicians use a mac :) |
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yeah i think mac is the way to go. Im talking a grand in sterling by the way, which is like, 1600 dollars american. I might save a little more if i can... |
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so what software do you guys use to play live? Do you just use your sequencers like fruity loops etc? |
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The new 15" has ambient light sensors which dim the screen brightness and activate the backlit keyboard in the dark which would be usefull for live gigs. |
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nice, first question - u ask witch laptop is best and after then u ask witch ware ppl use to play live. dumb? :P |
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i dont think it really matters what type of system you use, because chances are youll be using logic or cubase or max/msp or whatever, which are multiplatform just make sure youve got a good processor and a lot of ram |
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it depends, OSX is a much better imho operating system to use and seems to be a lot more stable... and macs look nicer :) |
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use linuxm, also i like mac logo light on font! know :) |
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if you have a look at the apple website there are new G4 ibooks which have just been released at good prices. |
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numark TTX>technics 1200 mac>pc nigel>the world |
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dude, get a sony viao laptop. thats what im getting next. after seeing squarepusher use one im like shit! i spent mad money on a toshiba. things giving me all types of problems |
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I bought a no name brand taiwanese laptop with all the fixins for about 1300 usd, uses standard pc laptop components, desktop processor, is easy to maintain, and is just as powerful as $2000+ shenanigans with little plastic names glued on them check pricewatch |
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i have HP ze4400 w/ 1.79G HD & 448 megs RAM and wireless G network. |
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I'm getting mine free from work when they get round to it :P |
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Yeah, mine is a no-name brand (amiericomp or something), but with name brand components mostly, got it for 1400 when elsewhere they are like 2000+ |
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yea I got mine from that americomp place too, I guess they are just a north american reseller for some eci jonter over in taiwan |
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Sony Vaio |
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are you correcting me neo? i dont like correcters. |
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just kiddin, a really good live program is audiomulch. you can download it at www.audiomulch.com after the time runs out you can just download it again. its a really dope program |
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No, to be honest I didn't read what you had written, just mentioning the Sony Vaio........your avatar scared me, and forced me to overlook it... BTW.....it is spelt 'Vaio' :P |
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oh yeah, audiomulch is just for pc by the way. |
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sony vaio + ableton live = has been known to work |
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