newbie to forum needs advice on a mac...

newbie to forum needs advice on a mac laptop

Posted on May 08, 2006 09:51 pm
vudumajik
Member Since: May 08, 2006

hey all

i found a mac laptop on craigslist that i wanted some opinions about.

i want to use this to record mainly myself on gtr, vox and keys. maybe a drum machine. in the future i'd like to try recording bands, and also working with Reason and other virtual instrument programs, loops etc to make commercial music (once i get the hang of everything!)

i will run Cubase on this. and i have an M-Audio firewire 410 interface.

heres the link to the laptop in question:

philadelphia.craigslist.org/sys/154249710.html

any comments on speed of CPU, memory size, etc greatly appreciated!

thanks much!

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dbmasters
Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

May 09, 2006 05:08 am

1.33 Ghz processor will surely get the job done for you as far as recording yourself one instrument at a time, but when it comes to recording a full band at once you may experience some issues with the speed, or lack of it. I would bump the RAM up as high as you can. It won't take the place of the CPU size, but it can help a bit.

Also, when recording a full band at once make sure you have no plugins running and other such CPU intensive things...it'll be nice for mixing down though...

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Member
Since: Jul 01, 2002

May 10, 2006 10:52 am

i record on a much lower spec machine than that. Garage Band ought to do a decent job of multitracking for you, hopefully without any addiditonal outlay. If not, maybe Logic Audio would be worth a look