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6th June 2006, 06:14 PM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canuk
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|  Protools on Macbook is FAST FAST FAST I cannot believe how fast PT on a Macbook (Dual Core 2 Ghz with 2 GB a RAM )is ... 63 voices ( About 42 tracks) 18,000 edits playing on Level 2!!!! No Consolidation needed on the edits! Sessions launch so fast And you can run more plug-ins on it too, compared to a Powerbook G4! Too bad Auto tune, Pitch N Time and a bunch of others won't work on it! But you can do basic editing without a hitch! |
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6th June 2006, 11:21 PM
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| Gear interested Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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| Sounds great! I'm looking at swapping my current setup for a Mac laptop with ProTools as I'm mainly recording in studios but editing at home. Is that a Macbook not a Macbook Pro? Also, I'm interested to find out what interface you're using and what bit depth/rate you use. Thanks! David |
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7th June 2006, 06:11 AM
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| 24 Bit 44.1 on a MBox 2 - Macbook (Not a Pro) |
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7th June 2006, 06:35 AM
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| the intel port of LE is indeed fast. my macbook pro (2ghz dual core as well) doesn't even crack 40% CPU. running 160 plug-ins (32 tracks, each with mono BF76, Digirack Eq3 7band, Limiter, Delay, Gate) 24bit, 44.1khz, Digi 002 Rack. 512 samples. i love it. |
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7th June 2006, 09:53 PM
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| Gear nut  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: MN
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| how does the macbook compare to the midrange G5s? the above stats are very impressive... it would be cool to have alll the mixing power you need in a laptop. mixing on my powerbook can be pretty depressing these days  |
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7th June 2006, 10:01 PM
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7th June 2006, 10:03 PM
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7th June 2006, 10:28 PM
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| Now imagine a Dual Dual Core PCIe - I am thinking my days of my 7 card system are coming to a close ... |
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7th June 2006, 10:34 PM
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For sure no need for ANY cards at all. And way more portable too. | |
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7th June 2006, 11:20 PM
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8th June 2006, 12:25 AM
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|  logic on a macintel mixing tons tons of track, maybe while drinkin a mocafrapulatte at starbucks or on a plane trip. too bad PT LE only allows upto (46 track i think) certain amount of tracks. maybe with one of the toolkits upgrade it can go up to 96 tracks. bye bye HD. |
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8th June 2006, 05:11 PM
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I don't really see Avid letting that particular "cat" outta the bag anytime soon. Glad to hear the port is fast. Would be cool for offline editing with a M-Audio Transit... 
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9th June 2006, 01:21 AM
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| hey guys, those of you having a macintel laptop, can you test how long can it go in terms of latency? I mean, what's the smallest buffer it tolerates without going bezzz, in a session with a reasonable bunch of tracks. I'm mostly interested in such a test to find out how useful they are as a (remote) tracking device, WITH software monitoring enabled thx in advance |
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9th June 2006, 02:39 AM
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FINALLY... You know, I bought my imac G5 literally DAYS before the Intel announcement. Had I known about the switch, I could have probably tolerated working on my B&W G3 (perhaps upgrading it with a G4 ZIF card) for another year and snagged one of these macbooks now... Oh well. Live and learn. | |
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9th June 2006, 09:22 AM
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| and I conveniently am selling the 1.83's new in box for a now lowered $1600. yeehaw! |
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9th June 2006, 05:14 PM
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| Gear Head Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Valley Village, CA
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 | For the record, I am running PT LE 7.1.1 on my intel iMac... I have been beta testing it for some time now, and I love it! The only real dilemma is that I have to use Waves on an old G4... the intel can handle all the plugs, but most of them aren't ready yet! Anyhow, I am beta testing for Pitch 'n Time Pro and Pitch 'n Time LE, both of which have no problems that I can see. Changing tempo and pitch up to 800% all in a few seconds! Good Stuff... I am dying waiting for Waves though, PT was a free update, Reason was a free update, I'd be willing to bet that Waves waits for the new WUP quarter and charges a healthy $300 any takers? -Roy |
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9th June 2006, 09:23 PM
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| 32 tracks (or damn close) at 96k on a dual 2.16... with lots of edits and a few verbs and 10 or so compressors. CPU reading at 40 to 50%. With all this processing power, my "editing" machine now has some serious plug-in processing capabilities. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I don't personally own many plugs. |
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12th June 2006, 08:36 AM
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Do you find the screen size 13" to small for serious audio editing?  Which softsynths have u used succesfully? I'm still kinda skeptical cuz this has not been Digi Approved.......only the Macbook Pro's have.
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13th June 2006, 03:03 PM
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| hey, can you set the buffer to its smallest setting -64samples, when you do not notice latency anymore- and report back on how far in terms of tracks and plugs the macintels go? thx |
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13th June 2006, 09:18 PM
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| 1280 X 800 Wide Screen Great for editing. I have not used any soiftsyths it is just and editor for now AFIK only Hybrid & Xpand work for now. Smallest Latency setting 256 Samples (I think that's what any LE system will do ???) It has the same processor as a Macbook Pro So I can't see why Digi will not qualify it. It's only been out for a month so it will take some time to get the official seal of approval. |
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14th June 2006, 12:54 AM
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14th June 2006, 09:19 AM
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Wow, that's pretty good, could u please post your computer system specs? I'm curious!
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14th June 2006, 04:47 PM
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| Sure! The specs for that system are: A8V motherboard (not deluxe or anything, just the regular one) AMD x2 4400+ processor 2 GB Corsair XMS (2x1024) Matrox G550 AGP video card Pyro 64 PCI firewire card (from Digi's recommended list) Enermax 450W power supply That's about it. Running it on XP Pro SP2. I was running 2 UAD-1 cards at one point (couldn't run 3,) but it proved to be a little unstable. Shouldn't be an issue with my new quad, tho...  |
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3rd June 2008, 03:31 PM
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| Macbook with Pro tools I was using a PC to run protools and I thought that a macbook would be better, so I bought a macbook with 80 Gb and I'm using my lacie hardrive to save all the files. But I cannot play one full song and the mac stops saying that it is too much information to be processed and tells me to change the H/W for a higher number. Is there any configuration that I'm missing ? Thanks Alex Quote:
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3rd June 2008, 03:52 PM
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3rd June 2008, 05:45 PM
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| bought a mbox micro to get used to pt... and it sux! i get double the plug count at half the latency, running cubase and my ensemble, this is on a first gen macbook. must be something wrong with the mbox drivers, had some serious crashes since i installed it... going to sell it  |
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3rd June 2008, 05:50 PM
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3rd June 2008, 11:18 PM
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Rail this thread is from 2006 I believe at that time PnT and A.tune were not Intel of course they are now. | |
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4th June 2008, 12:01 AM
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4th June 2008, 03:09 PM
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 | I had very little experience with a M-box on my macbook, and I must say it was not good experience. I'm curious about what PT and OS version are you guys using. |
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