Too much for the laptop or is it Reaper

[Charva]

I'm going to try to record on my laptop soon...gathering up gear and any mistakes you make, I hope to learn from.

So far..

I have a new Toshiba with Vista. I got it in November 2007 so it's pretty current. AMD Turion 64 X2 1.9 GHz with 2GB ram.


I need to get a firewire interface, looking towards...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...-26-Input-FireWire-Audio-Interface?sku=246031

I already have this mixing board..

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mackie-1402VLZ3-Compact-Mixer-120V-?sku=630132


I downloaded Reaper with ASIO for all drivers.

Been trying to learn reaper, the last multitracking I did was a few years ago with Cakewalk PA9 and Cool Edit Pro on my Windows98 machine....


I'll keep checking in for advice,

Dae

 

[Rokket]

I'm going to try to record on my laptop soon...gathering up gear and any mistakes you make, I hope to learn from.

So far..

I have a new Toshiba with Vista. I got it in November 2007 so it's pretty current. AMD Turion 64 X2 1.9 GHz with 2GB ram.


I need to get a firewire interface, looking towards...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...-26-Input-FireWire-Audio-Interface?sku=246031

I already have this mixing board..

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mackie-1402VLZ3-Compact-Mixer-120V-?sku=630132


I downloaded Reaper with ASIO for all drivers.

Been trying to learn reaper, the last multitracking I did was a few years ago with Cakewalk PA9 and Cool Edit Pro on my Windows98 machine....


I'll keep checking in for advice,

Dae

The biggest problem I've seen so far, besides this mess that I seem to have caused myself, is this:

are you using an external hard drive? if not, your laptop hard drive is probably the culprit. it is most likely going at 5400 rpms when you need at least 7200 rpms to handle a decent track count. hope this helps.

Good luck with it, keep us posted how it goes!