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Subject: laptop - suggestions
Original Message Date: 22-Jan-02 @ 06:12 PM - laptop - suggestions
pppetrick
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goin' against the grain here, but got my reasons, mainly cause i'm movin' round so much and i need somethin portable for school.
i wanna buy a lappy and if possible convert my studio to use that only. i'm runnin logic, exs24, reason and premiere (for movie stuff, but i suppose no one here knows much on that front). i'm doin' midi with an amt8, using usb.
1. Is anyone runnin something similar and if so, do you have any wisdom to depart.
2. Soundcard - it'll have to be usb or pcmcia, any suggestions (i'm looking at the emagic emi 216). am i gonna be fighting with the lappy to run 2 soundcards?
3. OS - all runs smoothly on win98se at the moment. the vaio comes with xp. i'm assuming i should load 98 instead - any issues here?
4. anyone have a better suggestion for a lappy? (i need firewire for the video stuff)
thanks all,
-p.
i wanna buy a lappy and if possible convert my studio to use that only. i'm runnin logic, exs24, reason and premiere (for movie stuff, but i suppose no one here knows much on that front). i'm doin' midi with an amt8, using usb.
1. Is anyone runnin something similar and if so, do you have any wisdom to depart.
2. Soundcard - it'll have to be usb or pcmcia, any suggestions (i'm looking at the emagic emi 216). am i gonna be fighting with the lappy to run 2 soundcards?
3. OS - all runs smoothly on win98se at the moment. the vaio comes with xp. i'm assuming i should load 98 instead - any issues here?
4. anyone have a better suggestion for a lappy? (i need firewire for the video stuff)
thanks all,
-p.
Message 11/11 03-Feb-02 @ 08:49 PM - RE: laptop - suggestions
Laptops are a viable alternative to desktops. I can take it with me to the local alternacoffee shop and work on arrangements or loops then come home and hook it up to "The Mothership". I use a Toshiba Satellite (get it?) 2755 DVD lappy. I began using it on the road then decided to integrate it into my main workstation at home instead of upgrading my desktop.
I use a Tascam US428 on the USB port for audio, control, and send it's MIDI port one into a MIDI PC Express PC 6x6 interface hooked up to an old 486DX 100mHz PC for my MIDI FX. A Midisport 8x8 interface is hooked up to the serial port for my synths. It took awhile to tweak and troubleshoot but it works well.
At some point I may get a desktop again but with the new RME MultiFace PCMCIA cards, it's doubtful (unless Steinberg's new CPU sharing thingy works out). Since the MultiFace has word clock I/O you can use two in the same laptop for 16 channels of analog I/O and maintain sample accurate sync. Add a fast, external, firewire drive and you're loaded for bear. A serial interface would handle you MIDI fine and still leave you USB port unused. The DigiFace card would be a great solution if you have a digital mixer and you don't mind taking it with you should you go mobile. The coolest thing about the RME cards are that if you do want a desktop for your main studio all you need to do is purchase the PCI card and the PCMCIA card together, the MultiFace/DigiFace breakout box works with both. I really, really, hope these things work and I am waiting for feedback from users to start trickling onto the newsgroups. Hey K, work out a loaner from RME and I'll test it with my Satellite and "Mothership" for a Dancetech review (I can dream, can't I?).
I honestly think that for anything but commercial studios the desktop's days could be numbered especially as laptops become more powerful and I/O options more plentiful.
I use a Tascam US428 on the USB port for audio, control, and send it's MIDI port one into a MIDI PC Express PC 6x6 interface hooked up to an old 486DX 100mHz PC for my MIDI FX. A Midisport 8x8 interface is hooked up to the serial port for my synths. It took awhile to tweak and troubleshoot but it works well.
At some point I may get a desktop again but with the new RME MultiFace PCMCIA cards, it's doubtful (unless Steinberg's new CPU sharing thingy works out). Since the MultiFace has word clock I/O you can use two in the same laptop for 16 channels of analog I/O and maintain sample accurate sync. Add a fast, external, firewire drive and you're loaded for bear. A serial interface would handle you MIDI fine and still leave you USB port unused. The DigiFace card would be a great solution if you have a digital mixer and you don't mind taking it with you should you go mobile. The coolest thing about the RME cards are that if you do want a desktop for your main studio all you need to do is purchase the PCI card and the PCMCIA card together, the MultiFace/DigiFace breakout box works with both. I really, really, hope these things work and I am waiting for feedback from users to start trickling onto the newsgroups. Hey K, work out a loaner from RME and I'll test it with my Satellite and "Mothership" for a Dancetech review (I can dream, can't I?).
I honestly think that for anything but commercial studios the desktop's days could be numbered especially as laptops become more powerful and I/O options more plentiful.
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