I don't know much about the accessibility of cubase and neuendo I just spoke to a mastering engineer a while back and he said that it is accessible he uses neuendo with VO but he said cubase would also work. haven't tried it myself yet, but hope to go to the guys studios soon then I'll give you more info.
Scott Chesworth wrote: > If Nuendo or Cubase are accessible, that's news to me! Would love to > know more man. > > Tricky to say whether a Mac mini would do the job without knowing what > you record. If you can give us more of an idea of where you're headed > with PT once you've made the switch, we'll probably be able to help > more. > > Yup, tracking to an external drive is always recommended. Firewire has > better thruput than USB2 even if the latter seems faster on paper in > terms of transfer rates, so go for an external Firewire drive. Make > sure it's running at at least 7200 rpm (most of the desktop drives > that are externally powered do), and you should be good to go. > > Hth > Scott > > On 4/5/11, bigboy529 <bigboy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys I just joined this group. I'm actually a pc guy looking in to > > getting a mac as I recently lost almost all my eye sight and there's > > no recording software accessible on pc using jaws. I understand PT 9 > > is very accessible these days but heard that neuendo and cubase is > > also accessible. Anyway my question, will a mac mini be fine for > > recording etc with any of the software mentioned above? I saw that it > > goes up to 2.9 GHz dual core and 8 GB ram, and must I get a external > > firewire hard drive? Some other people told me that I must rather go > > for a entry level mac book pro or imac as the mini would be to slow. > > But I'm sure you guys would be able to give me better advice as you > > also record. thanks > > > > Scott Chesworth wrote: > >> Hi Frank, > >> > >> Yup, point taken about memory and drives. Really I was only tracking > >> off of the system disk to check that I could if I need to. > >> Transferring the session over to the firewire drive I generally use > >> made a big difference to the responsiveness of PT, even if it's still > >> not as snappy as I'd like. > >> > >> Just checked the specs and this old beast can support up to 4gb of > >> ram, so I'll definitely be doubling that sooner rather than later as a > >> temporary solution until I can stump up the cash for a new system. > >> When I do, it's gonna be SSD for me. > >> > >> Scott > >> > >> On 4/4/11, Frank Carmickle <fr...@carmickle.com> wrote: > >> > Hey Scott > >> > > >> > Two things for sure. You need more ram and you really want a different > >> > drive just for audio. I have only experienced pro tools on two machines > >> > so > >> > far. One is my 2010 mbp 15" with an i7, 8 gb of ram and an ssd. The > >> > other > >> > was an older 8 core mp with I believe 8 gb of ram. That machine was > >> > running > >> > pro tools hd with an hd3 card and I found it slow in comparison to my > >> > dual > >> > core i7. I believe the most important thing to speeding up pro tools > >> > performance is the speed of the drive plus the ammount of ram. Another > >> > key > >> > factor is the performance of the io subsystem. In the new series of > >> > chips > >> > like the i3 i5 and i7 is the qpi bus. Quick path interconnect is a much > >> > more efficient way of moving data from different components of the > >> > system to > >> > the processor and back. The other thing that you have to keep in mind > >> > is > >> > the disk. It may be a 7200 rpm disk but if it is an older one then it > >> > will > >> > have a much lesser bit density. This effects read speed more than > >> > rotational latency. This means that on each rotation pro tools can > >> > buffer > >> > more audio in from the drive. > >> > > >> > The question really comes down to do you have money for a new system > >> > right > >> > now. This years mbp is really a step up from last years. I feel kind > >> > of > >> > cheated a little. Most of the time systems from year to year show a > >> > small > >> > percentage improvement. This year the same 15" gets two more cores with > >> > the > >> > same battery life. The 13" has the same processor that my 15" has. > >> > Either > >> > one would be fine. I put an ssd in mine and it is truly amazing. The > >> > higher end 13" with the 2.7 i7 dual core or the lower end 15" with the > >> > 2.0 > >> > quad core i7 are the sweet spots for price. If you don't have the money > >> > than upgrade the memory to as much as you can put in the thing you've > >> > got, > >> > get an firewire 800 7200 rpm disk and see how it goes. > >> > > >> > Take care > >> > --FC > >> > > >> > > >> > On Apr 4, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi folks, > >> >> > >> >> So yesterday, I started out recording my first entirely PT based > >> >> project since getting back on Avid's horse. For the most part, the > >> >> session went pretty well. I'm digging into comping takes and doing > >> >> some tidying up today, and noticing that my Mac is seriously > >> >> struggling. Wondered whether anyone more seasoned could give an > >> >> opinion about whether this is normal. > >> >> > >> >> So, I'm running a Core2Duo 2.4ghz, 2gb RAM, the session is running > >> >> from the system drive in an effort to see what the limitations of > >> >> traveling extra light are, but that drive is definitely 7200 RPM. The > >> >> session I'm working with has 20 tracks, most of which have two plugins > >> >> in the forms of compressor/gate/EQ etc. There's also two instances of > >> >> Sansamp PSA-1, and one instance of Eleven. Seeing as I'm no longer > >> >> recording, I've taken the H/W buffer size to 1024, and made pretty > >> >> much everything that I'm not using inactive. > >> >> > >> >> Should this spec of Mac really be on it's knees at this point? I know > >> >> it's not the latest and greatest, but a buddy of mine's Mac mini can > >> >> cope with this without breaking a sweat. The difference is that he's > >> >> using an older hence inaccessible version of PT, version 7 I think. > >> >> > >> >> Any advice welcome, even if it's time for my Mac to be checked into > >> >> the big genius bar in the sky... > >> >> > >> >> Scott > >> > > >> >
