Ricky wrote: I take it Money is not the issue you like myself would spend whatever it took to do an excellent job.
Phil replied: already spent quite a bit on this laptop, smile. Put in a Samsung solid-state Evo and 16GB of RAM. Currently running the audio on an external USB3 drive although long term will most likely move that to a thunderbolt drive. Ricky wrote: I have a 2000 1215 inch and I have a 500 gig hard drive. I took that out and use a hybrid drive but they sell a solid-state for around $300 you could get a three or 4 TB to go in there. When I track I have an external hard drive but I have used the internal with no plug-ins tracking a session and never crashed just with my hybrid hard drive. You can really make that laptop a hot rod for three or 400 bucks run your Boot Camp, have your ProTools and all that good stuff. This will help you make the decision on how much you want to try the Apple platform. I would have a logic installed as well because I believe you like to experiment as I do. Phil replied: correct. Am sure I will purchase Logic at some point. In the mean time, just purchased the Samplitude Pro X2 Suite for use on the Windows platform. There's a guy over here in the UK creating a very cool accessibility solution for it. We think we will probably be able to get per track spectral editing going which would be fantastic. BTW, if any of you on here use clip gain then using Samplitude is like that on steroids as you can add any affect you like and it's all non destructive. Ricky wrote: The ProTools 12 and Mavericks are going to get along good with the set up like I have described max out your RAM as well when you do this upgrade. Phil replied: well either on the Mac or Windows side it's all running suite here. _____ From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricky Prevatte Sent: 26 April 2016 17:48 To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag I take it Money is not the issue you like myself would spend whatever it took to do an excellent job. I have a 2000 1215 inch and I have a 500 gig hard drive. I took that out and use a hybrid drive but they sell a solid-state for around $300 you could get a three or 4 TB to go in there. When I track I have an external hard drive but I have used the internal with no plug-ins tracking a session and never crashed just with my hybrid hard drive. You can really make that laptop a hot rod for three or 400 bucks run your Boot Camp, have your ProTools and all that good stuff. This will help you make the decision on how much you want to try the Apple platform. I would have a logic installed as well because I believe you like to experiment as I do. The ProTools 12 and Mavericks are going to get along good with the set up like I have described max out your RAM as well when you do this upgrade. Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 On Apr 26, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Phil Muir <i...@accessibilitytraining.co.uk> wrote: True. _____ From: <mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com> ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Martin Sent: 26 April 2016 13:03 To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag The advantage of removing the DVD drive is so you can have two internal Hard drives. this can come in handy when traveling as Pro tools usually requires you to record to an separate HD than your system drive and that way you have two drives internally and won't have to bring an external USB or etc drive. Or just to have a separate OS on each drive. On Apr 26, 2016, at 6:15 AM, Phil Muir <i...@accessibilitytraining.co.uk> wrote: Gord. You don't need to remove the DVD drive. You may need to fit a larger hard drive and build a Mac installer. That's easy enough to do using command line tools. Just use the bootcamp manager to partition the disk for you. Doing that here with my Samsung EVO 500GB drive in this mid 2012 15 inch MacBook Pro. _____ From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto: <mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com> ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Kent Sent: 26 April 2016 02:54 To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag I might give this serious fault. My macbook pro is 4 years old now. If I ever get a newer mac, it will be a tower system, not a laptop. I could care less about the new features in el capitan. I would rather have pt working the way it should. Maverick solved some of the accessibility problems with pro tools not reading certain numeric values and the like. And apple still hasn't made the midi studio accessible. If I removed the Dvd drive, I could put in a second HD and run boot camp to switch between the os's if I wanted to. Gord From: Ricky <mailto:rickypreva...@gmail.com> Prevatte Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 9:40 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag I am running ProTools 12 and Mavericks. I had problem with Yosemite and had to roll back. All of that stuff works well with the latest version of logic as well on those older operating systems. I am not going to upgrade myself out of house and home I have thisDAW Running well I am going to keep it that way. I have a nice quick hard drive in the old laptop I have my CD drive I have no interest in a newer Apple Computer. Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Gordon Kent <dbmu...@cybernex.net> wrote: But don't I need to be running el capitan to run pro tools 12? I really liked maverick the best, but I would think yossemity would be as far back as you could go. Gord From: Ricky <mailto:rickypreva...@gmail.com> Prevatte Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 9:14 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag Hi Gordon I believe if you took your laptop in and have it rolled back to Mavericks or Yosemite your problem would be solved. If there is an issue that you need the newer update I understand but it may be cheaper and I know there is no learning curve there. I use my Presonus studio live for my console. It will not support El Capitan as well. I just bought a control surface and mackie MCU pro may not support it as well. I have heard that it did run with El Capitan. I am not going to take that chance. But all those surface issues you mentioned could be solved by abandoning El Capitan. Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Gordon Kent <dbmu...@cybernex.net> wrote: It's been quite a while since I've used pro tools. Back when I was running pt 10 with the older os's mountain lion etc., I had it working great with my alesis master control audio interface/control surface. Now alesis is no longer supporting it with el capitan. I don't think my m-audio project mix or the behringer bcf2000 will work either. Are we relegated to having to buy the Avid artist series surface? Would that be good enough or do we really need to spring for the s3. Gord -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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