interface suggestion for crappy laptop...

[pikingrin]

Okay, so I have a crappy gateway laptop (Intel Celeron 1.6 Ghz, 512mb RAM, 40gb HD, etc..), and I really want to do field recording with it. I am seeing a girl that plays the piano like nobody's business, and I'm really wanting to record her. Problem is, my piano is downstairs on the other side of the house, and her's is over at her house. So, either way, I would need some kind of interface for my laptop.

On my recording computer, I have Cubase SL(3.0) so I was toying with the notion of getting one of those lexicon USB interfaces, either the lambda or the alpha, to use for recording on my laptop with Cubase Le. Given the specs on my laptop, would it be able to handle something like that? I have one game on there, it has really overdone graphics so (I think it's the reason that) my CPU meter jumps up to almost 100% when I have it running. I don't know for sure, but I want to make sure that it would be suitable for recording a few tracks without plugins, that I could put on my recording pc to futher mix and tinker with.

Thanks for your responses!

 

[andycerrone]

Okay, so I have a crappy gateway laptop (Intel Celeron 1.6 Ghz, 512mb RAM, 40gb HD, etc..), and I really want to do field recording with it. I am seeing a girl that plays the piano like nobody's business, and I'm really wanting to record her. Problem is, my piano is downstairs on the other side of the house, and her's is over at her house. So, either way, I would need some kind of interface for my laptop.

On my recording computer, I have Cubase SL(3.0) so I was toying with the notion of getting one of those lexicon USB interfaces, either the lambda or the alpha, to use for recording on my laptop with Cubase Le. Given the specs on my laptop, would it be able to handle something like that? I have one game on there, it has really overdone graphics so (I think it's the reason that) my CPU meter jumps up to almost 100% when I have it running. I don't know for sure, but I want to make sure that it would be suitable for recording a few tracks without plugins, that I could put on my recording pc to futher mix and tinker with.

Thanks for your responses!

As long as you're not trying to record more than a few tracks, I think you'll be fine. Just bounce the tracks over to your regular recording computer and do the rest of the work there.

 

[pikingrin]

As long as you're not trying to record more than a few tracks, I think you'll be fine. Just bounce the tracks over to your regular recording computer and do the rest of the work there.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I'm just a bit concerned that it won't be enough power to jack around with MIDI recording when I'm out of town without my guitars and stuff. I travel about 8-10 weeks out of the year and it drives me nuts watching t.v. in the hotels after everything is said and done.

 

[laststartoshine]

i think you should be fine doing that