Lap VS PC

Posted on Mar 23, 2009 11:53 am
Tinstryde
giv me gear
Member Since: Jan 29, 2009

well not exactly!but do people use laptops for recording and mixing?i don't mean the crappy ones.say a decent laptop with loads of ram and stuff like that?or is it a waste of money?

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pjk
Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004

Mar 23, 2009 01:03 pm

Nope, lots of people do it all the time. Many get a macbook pro, with a fireface, or motu, and really go to town.

I'd say you get more horsepower per $$$ with desktop, like me, as i build mine myself, but the high end lappys are certainly capable.

I would suggest removing some of the gunk that is installed onto box laptops, but that's usually not too difficult.

I have an older dell lappy, with centrino 1.6g & 512m ram. I've done quite a few 2 channel stereo captures. I don't add too many tracks, but the little stuff I do has worked well.

J-bot
Byte-Mixer
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Since: Dec 04, 2007

Mar 23, 2009 02:34 pm

Honestly, I really wish I had a laptop. It would be easy to pack it, my audiofire4, headphones, and my midi controller and take em with me when I visit the parents. or the future in-laws. Eh, maybe one of these days.

I think a decent laptop for my purposes (and I use FL Studio 8 with VST, SF2 and the like)would probably be about a 3.2GHz dual-core with at least 2GB RAM, and around a sizable hard-drive with at least a 10,000 RPM speed. Running XP.

It'd be nice because any sketches or ideas that take fruit, I could just take home with me, and plug the project file straight into the main DAW.

CptTripps
Czar of Turd Polish
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Since: Jun 20, 2006

Mar 24, 2009 01:27 pm

Honestly, todays crappy laptop is probably up to the task. At the rate computers are advancing a 4-600 laptop really does the job well imo. My 2.0ghz dual core with 3GB ram and a 5400rpm drive has captured 12 channels at once @ 48Khz and had no problems mixing either.

My new desktop is insane, but I knew I would be editing HD video with it. Thank god I went insane or I would be in hell with the gigantic files. For audio, it is overkill.