It depends on what you can afford, get the best computer for the price.
I had a desktop that I thought was the shit but it had some trouble with Traktor, it died on me and I wanted the best thing I could get and something that was going to last, I got a Macbook Pro and I am satisfied with it. I use it for school, net, and djing. I don't game on it, I don't download un needed music or movies or anything like that. Have a dedicated machine, that will help.
Can we all just accept that Macs are better?
"When you get so overly involved in the music scene you kinda tend to dance less. You get to a club and you usually know the promoter or the DJ, and you end up socialising instead of going nuts on the dancefloor. It’s shit actually.” - Jackmaster
Oh dear.Originally Posted by JuxtaPoser
"Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. What had caused this condition?" -- Albert Hofmann -- Laboratory Notes (1943)
I was helping a Mac owning friend of mine get everything set up to do multitrack recording last week.
The first thing he couldn't do was monitor the sound via line in. After Googling it, it seems that Apple removed this functionality from OS 9 to OS X so he had to install this: -
http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/LineIn is a simple application for OS X to enable the soft playthru of audio from input devices. In simpler terms, you can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port, just as was once available with OS 9's "Play input through output device" option.
That worked, except he had huge latency issues (more on that later).
Next he wanted to know how to do stereo mix recording. On Windows this is easy - select "stereo mix". On a Mac, well, another app was required and a bunch of configuration, as detailed here: -
http://www.shedosurashu.com/stereo-mix-for-mac-os-x
So now he just had to deal with his massive latency issues, so he ended up asking for advice on my forum and another Mac user drew him this diagram of how to set up his gear: -
He had to use the effect send on his mixer as an output, then compensate for the recording latency in Reaper (the multitrack software he's using).
And while all of this discussion was going on, just one thing was going through my mind: -
But oddly enough, I have had no issues like this on my Windows box which "just works" for multitrack recording and without "tons of tweaking and optimising".
Panasonic Tough book /Thread
well i have 4 $300 Dell's, and their better then my mac
I said it before and I'll say it again...
DON'T USE A COMPUTER IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAINTAIN IT!
Use what you like to use AND learn how to maintain it. If you know how to do both, then it won't matter which OS you use.
-KLH
^^^ agreed I bought my wife and i 2 toshibas 4 years or so ago. I use mine daily for internet, pictures, back up at gigs etc etc. It still works like the day I bought it. I keep it really well maintained, my wifes is a joke she has so much shit its always locking up etc because like a typicall woman, just drive it until the wheels fall off, or the engine siezes!!!
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DON'T USE A COMPUTER IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAINTAIN IT!
Use what you like to use AND learn how to maintain it. If you know how to do both, then it won't matter which OS you use.
-KLH
Why didn't your friend just use a decent sound interface? It sounds like he was trying to use the onboard sound, which is almost always a recipe for disaster.I was helping a Mac owning friend of mine get everything set up to do multitrack recording last week.
The first thing he couldn't do was monitor the sound via line in. After Googling it, it seems that Apple removed this functionality from OS 9 to OS X so he had to install this: -
http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/
That worked, except he had huge latency issues (more on that later).
Next he wanted to know how to do stereo mix recording. On Windows this is easy - select "stereo mix". On a Mac, well, another app was required and a bunch of configuration, as detailed here: -
http://www.shedosurashu.com/stereo-mix-for-mac-os-x
So now he just had to deal with his massive latency issues, so he ended up asking for advice on my forum and another Mac user drew him this diagram of how to set up his gear: -
He had to use the effect send on his mixer as an output, then compensate for the recording latency in Reaper (the multitrack software he's using).
And while all of this discussion was going on, just one thing was going through my mind: -
But oddly enough, I have had no issues like this on my Windows box which "just works" for multitrack recording and without "tons of tweaking and optimising".
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