Going To Get Myself A Computer., Any Tips? |
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Going To Get Myself A Computer., Any Tips? |
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Jul 3 2008, 11:31 PM |
Whilst a 7200 spin speed HD would be great a 5400 is not the end of the world unless you do a lot of sample streaming. (I have a laptop that I use as a back up portable music one that has a 5400 spin speed 80 Gb ATA HD and it works fine.) Do however multi-partition the disc - or get the shop to do it for you. It's also always possible to either retrofit a faster internal drive or use an external if you need to at a later date - drives are pretty cheap now a days anyway.
Everything that I've seen of the MBox with PT is good - offers good integration and with PT you can also share files with the more pro quality PT HD - which is used in a lot of studios. PT is a v good sequencer as well. MBox 2 comes with quite a bit of additional software plug-ins which is a bonus. If you buy it all from the same shop try to get them to give you some free stuff - headphones and a mic maybe . Maybe also get them to install and validate that PT works 'out of the box' with the MBox and the Apple OS version you get. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jul 4 2008, 11:33 AM |
You can't really work in DAW properly with integrated card, you must get an external one. SO cheap integrated is all you need really. You will barely use it.
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Jul 5 2008, 07:49 PM |
WOwo you work in very advanced fields I can see the look on the engineer's face, like "This is a real mess! Has anyone touched this?" and everyone suddenly had something to do I would have blamed the shipping By the way I'd be scared of taking apart such things.... I'm already worried about taking my amplifier apart because I'm scared of those mighty condensers... And that biiiiig warning sticker "do not disassemble" A spectrometer! Aren't those thingies for seeing what chemicals are on stuff? Nice and an electron beam gun? Aren't they used in CRT monitors? Your work sounds fun Used to work as a specialist in chemical analysis Freebird - mainly ultra low (ie sub parts per trillion) pesticide and forensics analysis . Mass spectrometry I did was all about forcing the chemical to fall apart in a controlled manner so that I could then detect and identify the constituent parts and from that work backwards to reassemble and identify the original. Computers can take a pretty good guesstimate at what the original chemical was but the software algorythms aren't perfect - so we always did a manual ID on unknowns. On national ID blind checks the good algos would generally get a 85% correct ID - over 4 years I drifted between 95- 100% (one 95% and 15 100% scores) . The beam gun was for different work - did some research work on novel intermetallic compounds - the way I made them was to use a beam gun to ablate them under vacuum. Basically you hit the metals with high energy electrons which vapourise them in seconds. You then then redeposit and recondense them in a controlled manner as a novel amalgam. Lots of fun - especially knowing that you can vapourise a lump of metal in a few seconds - very science fiction . Cheers, Tony ps sorry guys for going OT. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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