strangedogs
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1st of all I'll preface this by stating "I would love the FASTEST computer". I recorded for a long time on a G3 - I made movies on a G3 too and had a ball doing it. I moved up to a Sawtooth G4 (400 mhz.) and had a ball. I moved up to a Digital Audio Dual 450 G4 and had a ball. I now record using a 1st gen 20" Imac G5 (1.8 ghz.) with 2 gigs of ram - I run Logic Studio 9 on it and I have a ball. The specs on Studio 9 said it required an Intel-based Mac - WRONG - my PPC G5 runs it fine. I have a "bud" in the Apple Logic forums who is running Logic 9 with 512 megs of ram. He had 1.5 gigs but his 1-gig chip went bad - he's too poor right now to buy another one and is running Logic with 1 512-meg chip! He sent me some clips he just did and they sounded amazing using Amp Designer and the Pedalboard in Logic - WITH 512-MEGS OF RAM. He figured out how to GIT-R-DONE.
I don't record an entire Symphony Orchestra - I record me, playing my guitar. Then I add a Bass track, then some drums (usually loops cause I'm lazy - but when I feel froggy I use my Yamaha midi keyboard to do the percussion stuff. Then I might add keyboard, midi instruments, whatever... I layer tracks 1 at a time and I get by just fine. I'll wager to say probably 90% of "Home Recording" folks are just like me - lone wolves who do one track at a time... sure the fastest and best would be great but there's thousands and thousands of us (more like millions and millions) who get by with older machines and figure out ways to GIT-R-DONE. I know PC dudes from other forums using old outdated Windows XP machines who produce fantastic sounding stuff. In the GuitarAmpModeling forums there are guys from 3rd world countries getting by with old outdated stuff we'd probably set out with the trash - but they're recording with these rigs. I have a "new" Windows 7 64-bit laptop with dual 2 ghz Intel chips & 4-gigs of ram and I record with it too - my 2005 Mac can do everything it does and actually with a lot less "issues"...
Don't get so caught up in the "Fastest & Best" philosophy. All of us aren't rich and most of us can't afford to chuck out a perfectly good computer cause it's getting a bit "long in the tooth". There's DAW's that work fine with slower computers... just limit the plug-ins, tweak the OS - keep all the additional stuff from running in the background - WHATEVER it takes.
I don't plan on getting another G5 as long as my "old one" gets the job done and I can still have fun doing what I like with it. I don't care about Snow Leopard - 10.5 is sweet. When and if they quit producing anything for my PPC machine I'll make do with what I have right now THAT RUNS FINE ON IT. And if I happen to win the lottery or come into a sudden Windfall of $$$$ maybe I'll buy a killer new 27" Imac.
'nuff said - I just don't want noobs, wanting to get into recording, to think it's impossible without buying the "newest and fastest". I'm having a great time with an OLD computer. My interface is a 2005 model too (Boss GS-10) but it produces beautiful sound. What I have right now in front of me is a RECORDING STUDIO - and it doesn't have to "break the friggin' bank" to work fine.
I don't record an entire Symphony Orchestra - I record me, playing my guitar. Then I add a Bass track, then some drums (usually loops cause I'm lazy - but when I feel froggy I use my Yamaha midi keyboard to do the percussion stuff. Then I might add keyboard, midi instruments, whatever... I layer tracks 1 at a time and I get by just fine. I'll wager to say probably 90% of "Home Recording" folks are just like me - lone wolves who do one track at a time... sure the fastest and best would be great but there's thousands and thousands of us (more like millions and millions) who get by with older machines and figure out ways to GIT-R-DONE. I know PC dudes from other forums using old outdated Windows XP machines who produce fantastic sounding stuff. In the GuitarAmpModeling forums there are guys from 3rd world countries getting by with old outdated stuff we'd probably set out with the trash - but they're recording with these rigs. I have a "new" Windows 7 64-bit laptop with dual 2 ghz Intel chips & 4-gigs of ram and I record with it too - my 2005 Mac can do everything it does and actually with a lot less "issues"...
Don't get so caught up in the "Fastest & Best" philosophy. All of us aren't rich and most of us can't afford to chuck out a perfectly good computer cause it's getting a bit "long in the tooth". There's DAW's that work fine with slower computers... just limit the plug-ins, tweak the OS - keep all the additional stuff from running in the background - WHATEVER it takes.
I don't plan on getting another G5 as long as my "old one" gets the job done and I can still have fun doing what I like with it. I don't care about Snow Leopard - 10.5 is sweet. When and if they quit producing anything for my PPC machine I'll make do with what I have right now THAT RUNS FINE ON IT. And if I happen to win the lottery or come into a sudden Windfall of $$$$ maybe I'll buy a killer new 27" Imac.
'nuff said - I just don't want noobs, wanting to get into recording, to think it's impossible without buying the "newest and fastest". I'm having a great time with an OLD computer. My interface is a 2005 model too (Boss GS-10) but it produces beautiful sound. What I have right now in front of me is a RECORDING STUDIO - and it doesn't have to "break the friggin' bank" to work fine.
