Mobile Rig for Hotel Mixing

[matahari]

Does anyone have any suggestions for a laptop setup for scoring and mixing from a hotel room in europe.

I want to make a portable system of what I have in the studio.

I am using a quad core mac. With the kore as my interface. Ni komplete, Omnisphere, Stylus Rmx, VSL, Logic.

I will be scoring a commercial in Portugal.

any suggestions?

thanx

Hayley

[henryrobinett]

What do you need in terms of I/O?

[matahari]

you know im not sure yet..

I will need a keyboard.... I may not need interface. as i will be writing .. and the either mixing in the box or going to a studio to record vocals and mix.

[Cover'd]

MacBook Pro with your Mac software and instruments installed seems the most 'logical' way to go

A simple USB MIDI interface would do fine for keyboard input (assuming that's all you actually need to hook up..?) - something like the Edirol UM-1

[matahari]

thanx... i dont need a converter?

and do like the edirol?

[Cover'd]

Depending on the keyboard, you may not need the UM-1 either... you might be able to hook that straight up via a simple USB cable

[jmarkham]

Originally Posted by matahari

Does anyone have any suggestions for a laptop setup for scoring and mixing from a hotel room in europe.

I want to make a portable system of what I have in the studio.

I am using a quad core mac. With the kore as my interface. Ni komplete, Omnisphere, Stylus Rmx, VSL, Logic.

I will be scoring a commercial in Portugal.

any suggestions?

thanx

Hayley

I use a Macbook Pro with Protools for my portable Rig. I either bring the
Mbox2 mini or the Mbox2Pro depending on what I'm doing. If I need many
inputs, I'll bring my 003 with an external ADAT enabled interface.

For your needs, I don't think you'll need an external converter if you're
not recording anything from live sources.

The Macbook Pro has been very reliable, but I do recommend using an external
FW drive. Particularly if you have using samples.

jeff