New Laptop help!!

When whatever you buy arrives, I'd recommend ripping the hard drive out and putting it in a USB caddy.
Drop another £140 on a 256gb SSD on ebay and pop that in as the system drive.

Good to go for a long time!
Ok, it's not essential but it's definitely what I'd do. I can't even begin to recommend SSDs enough.
Nothing else exists now in my mind.
 
Thanks for all the info guys...had a good think about it and decided to go with the new macbook pro. Comes on Wednesday:thumbs up:
 
so you went from a 600 budget to 2300? lol

you should be good for years...

Im doing the same around here ..get one $1200 laptop, or a couple cheaper items, desktop and laptop $300+$800...hmm

Doing around 10 tracks or 12 doesn't require much really, imo. I guess its all relevant to what youre doing. guitars bass and drums and vocals isn't hard to do on even an older pc.
PLug-Ins seem to be the most taxing on the RAM, but today 4gig is normal...and 2 gigs was covering 12 tracks for a long time with plugs.
 
CoolCat said:
so you went from a 600 budget to 2300? l
Sorry, ignore that last message, they aren't rca. They are three-pin female mic sockets on the back of the monitors. The lead supplied is phono to male three-pin mic. Twl

you should be good for years...

Im doing the same around here ..get one $1200 laptop, or a couple cheaper items, desktop and laptop $300+$800...hmm

Doing around 10 tracks or 12 doesn't require much really, imo. I guess its all relevant to what youre doing. guitars bass and drums and vocals isn't hard to do on even an older pc.
PLug-Ins seem to be the most taxing on the RAM, but today 4gig is normal...and 2 gigs was covering 12 tracks for a long time with plugs.
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Aye budget changed a little. . Happy with what I've got, non retina as well so can upgrsde Ram and HDD to SSD:)


I'm wondering how I'm going to hook my monitor's up though...The connections are three-pin female mic sockets on the back of the monitors. The lead is phono to male three-pin mic. Anyone know the best way?? w
 
You don't have an audio interface?
I'd get one. Even if it's just a cheap one, at very least it'll give you balanced TRS outputs.
 
Steenamaroo said:
You don't have an audio interface?
I'd get one. Even if it's just a cheap one, at very least it'll give you balanced TRS outputs.
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Not at the moment, I'm just building this up stage by stage. I've been looking at them but don't really know what to go for yet. I've got a couple of pairs of good studio headphones which will do for the time baring. Any reccomendations or ones to stay clear of on the interface side of things?
 
With a new mac you have thunder bolt which is a $2 adapter away from being firewire, so that opens the market up.
There are reports of various Tascam interfaces not playing nice under OSX, so do your research first.

I don't know what operating system you're running, but Mavericks is still young so, again, do your research on drivers before you buy.
 
carter1888 said:
Any reccomendations or ones to stay clear of on the interface side of things?
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UAD Apollo are made for Macs, although they are a little pricey. But if you get one, you also get the power of UAD plugs. It's a slippery slope, I tellya!!! :D
 
Im reading this like you want portability so a small interface, seems to fit.

Small as in "to toss in the suitcase" and the interface will have 1 or 2 headphone outputs, and it will have your jacks for monitors when your home.
 
Got the Native instruments complete audio 6, seems a good wee bit of kit for the price. Also bought Arturia minilab while i was at it, had a wee shot and it comes with some amount of sounds/vst:thumbs up:
 
Just noticed the usb connection on the midi controller is a type b? Don't know how i'm going to connect that to my audio interface, i have usb>midi connections but never seen type b>midi:confused:
 
carter1888 said:
Just noticed the usb connection on the midi controller is a type b? Don't know how i'm going to connect that to my audio interface, i have usb>midi connections but never seen type b>midi:confused:
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Is the cable B both sides? Also, if you have a B (I assume your controller uses the B), then the A can go straight to the computer. Doesn't have to connect to the interface.
 
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