Or better yet the 896...just saw the back of my new em mag today....neutrik in's..yum http://www.motu.com/english/motuaudio/896/body.html
I'm thinking 1394/firewire will be the defacto audio connect just like it has been in the desktop video sector....so motu896 is the your best bet. There is no need for an expensive PCMCIA card just a standard 1394 port....usb is just too low bandwidth at 12mbit great performance... As for the pc laptop....you want something indestructable....and dell latitude is the way to go....they had a streak for winning the laptop pc torture test (heat, cold, drop, coffee in the kb)...but alas the only dell laptop that has firewire is the Inspiron 8100...a very decent laptop in it's own right. But reality check now....apple invented firewire so I would highly reccomend an apple laptop for music production/recording. From my expierience with my firewire glyph drive on windows, I guessing mac firewire peformance is much better since firewire on windows hardware is an afterthought just like networking on win95 was. While I am typing this on my work latitude on my couch, I would definitely hesitate to bring a windows laptop into a stage production or live recording situtation...an apple ibook or powerbook would make me fell much better concering stability....check out any info on professional stage computer use and it always involves powerbooks.....of course this is only for peeps wanting more than dubplate production from their laptop, that want to bring part of their rig to the club along with the bag of records.... i guess the ideal system would be any apple powerbook with motu 896 and emagic amt8....so that your audio(firewire) and midi(usb) data are separate for performance purposes....with logic on os9 now and os10 this year....... snowed in LOS's angle.... peace James ----- Original Message ----- From: "theRENEGADEkemist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: Laptop... > My Suggestion is theMOTU 828! www.motu.com > > Peace out. > therenegadekemist. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:32 AM > Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: Laptop... > > > > > > Hiya James, > > > > I've got a Dell Latitude c600 here which I have used to do some audio > stuff > > with. > > > > It's a P3 1 ghz with 128 meg / cdrw / 14.1" LCD and it runs better than my > > desktop PC ! > > > > Admittedly I've done no external midi work with it but the internal > generic > > sound card (ESS maestro) > > seem to be fine for lite work. > > > > I use it for working with audio when Im out and about - for things like > > added effects to wavs or > > cutting up the odd breakbeat. > > > > When I get back to base the laptop connects via a mini LAN (crossover) to > > my studio PC where I can take all > > the wavs and up them into my sampler. > > > > I reckon any laptop these days above P3 900mhz will serve you well - as > for > > a dedicated sound card im not too > > sure - but if you dont mind hooking upto a desktop at the end of the day > > this solution is ideal. > > > > Ez > > > > Sol > > (www.djsol.fsnet.co.uk) > > (www.sophonic.com) > > (www.nwdnb.co.uk) > > > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: > > This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the > > intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or > > reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal > > offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the > > sender. > > > > > > --- > > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
