laptops for recording?
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45auto
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laptops for recording?
anybody ever record with a laptop? i've been looking at one of the m-audio usb interfaces. my old delta 44 has been pretty good to me. they update their drivers pretty nicely.
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rockstah
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Re: laptops for recording?
i have known people that do - just like with a desktop if u have atleast 512mb of ram - 1gig is better of ram- a 7200 rpm or better hd - dedicated recording drive is better - you should be okay with minimal tracks/effects - geting ito a firewire interface all the better with better laptop specs i mentioned.45auto wrote:anybody ever record with a laptop? i've been looking at one of the m-audio usb interfaces. my old delta 44 has been pretty good to me. they update their drivers pretty nicely.
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Bill Durham
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Recording with a laptop
I have done pretty succesfully... here's a song recorded on my laptop using a Motu 828 and an external HD on the same firewire bus. Source is the Mix out of a Yamaha 24 input console. I had planned on multi-tracking the session but my ignorance of things digital got in the way. I had a 48k vs 44.1k switch in the wrong place we found out after the fact.. oh well.
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The only problem with using a PC laptop is they aren't as DAW friendly as desktop machines are. The exception would be the ones built from scratch to be used as a DAW. My laptop is a Toshiba M35X, 1.6ghz, P4. I upgraded the ram to 1g, but the internal drive is only 4200 rpm, which makes it useless to record audio with. I use Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio for my recording app.
Thanks for the listen.
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The only problem with using a PC laptop is they aren't as DAW friendly as desktop machines are. The exception would be the ones built from scratch to be used as a DAW. My laptop is a Toshiba M35X, 1.6ghz, P4. I upgraded the ram to 1g, but the internal drive is only 4200 rpm, which makes it useless to record audio with. I use Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio for my recording app.
Thanks for the listen.
BD
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JimiJames
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Re: laptops for recording?
Just picked up the M-Audio Firewire 410. Berry Berry Nice at a nice price!45auto wrote:anybody ever record with a laptop? i've been looking at one of the m-audio usb interfaces. my old delta 44 has been pretty good to me. they update their drivers pretty nicely.
Has some of the best preamps in the bizzness ! ! !
I'll be making clips berry berry soon !
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45auto
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M-audio seems to be a pretty good company. They update their drivers well. Really decent stuff for the money.
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Bill Durham
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M-Audio
+1 for M-Audio. My desktop sound card is an AP2496 and I really like how it sounds.
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