Anyone use Cubase with a Windows laptop?

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I play solo acoustic guitar and sometimes sing. That is about it. I have no need for midi, no need for 76 tracks. I got into Cubase because friends have used it for many, many years. I rarely use more than 16 tracks and that is primarily four microphones recorded four different times. I use Cubase SE because I really do not need more than that.

It works great, which is evident by the fact I join this forum about once every three years. :D

Now I may be going laptop. Does anyone use Cubase with one of those USB or Firewire boxes? Are there any issues with Cubase doing this?

I use the Aardvark card, which has a breakout box that has four excellent mike preamps. I can only find one company that makes an adaptor that would allow me to use a full-size PCI card like that with a laptop. It costs $989.00. :(

Does anyone know if it is possible to record FOUR tracks from such a USB/Firewire box into Cubase? The only ones I have seen imply there is only two-track stereo Ins from the box to the computer. I need to record with two stereo pairs of mics!

Should I give up hope of moving to a laptop?

Thanks!
 
I use a laptop with my mobile rig and I do not have any problems, I use a Presonus Firestudio (Firewire interface) that has 26 IO and Cubase SX3. I can record as many tracks as I like. I would stay away from USB interfaces. Maybe mosy on over to some websites that sell gear and see what your options are,
 
It's easily doable. Carter uses many inputs which is cool, but a firepod would give you 8 good quaity pre-amps (provided your laptop supports firewire) but after that, it comes down to processing power and ram.
 
I use the mobilePre and Cubase sx3. I also have FL studio. I run both on my laptop and have no probs at all.
 
Thanks! :D

It is VERY frustrating. Things either have 2 xlr imputs and cost around $300 or they have 8 or more inputs and cost way more than I can afford. I need 4.

Your posts got me searching in the right direction. The only one with 4 so far is this one from Alesis. Anyone have experience with their products? Is this going to be poor quality compared to the Firepod sort of product?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/prod...-14-Input-FireWire-Audio-Interface?sku=246030
 
USB was designed for mice, keyboards and attaching temporary items like digital cameras and backup drives. You won't find many devices with more than 2-channels because it gets dodgy quickly the way it's implemented on various computer (i.e. cheap).

Firewire was designed specifically to replace SCSI as a fast drive solution for video and audio production (and video is MUCH more intensive than audio).

I've been using Cubase on an XP laptop with a Motu828mkII daisy-chained to a Glyph firewire drive with ZERO problems.
 
Yep. I'm using a (now relatively ancient) Toshiba M40 with a Tascam FW1082 which gives me up to 10 simutaneous inputs and acts as a control surface too. The whole system is remarkably stable, considering it's PC-based.
 
HP laptop... Presonus Inspire 1394 interface... firewire... Cubase LE... all works just fine.
 
see my sig ..... that 1.7 is in a laptop. It has a 4 pin fw input, but since the cable and the card were the same price, I bought an HP pci FW card and run no problems, 8 tracks.

It took a while for me to get everything set up correctly, but it's cool now.

Get a nice FW interface like the firepod-- you will appreciate the extra inputs someday. Otherwise, the firebox is cool.
 
SE 3 on a Gateway MX7515 (Athlon 64 4000+, 1Gb RAM) connected to a Mackie Onyx 1220 with Firewire card.
 
I've got a gateway, 1.6ghz with 2g of ram. I use it solely in the studio. I love it. I do have XP stripped down to bare bones, but that's because I like it running as fast as humanly possible.

I run two Presonus Firepods chained together. No problems that could not be remedied by some simple tweaks.

When I'm recording all 16 tracks at once in SL3, I only use up about 15% of my CPU.... This thing's great.
 
a mixer and a USB or firwire interface should do fine... then there's no need for you to get a decent soundcard (I don't think anyway... is there?).
 
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