Re: Internal drive or external for PT?

2013-02-26 Thread TheOreoMonster
if you have an iMac the answer is simple. External. It is not worth the hassle to take an iMac apart I don't know if you have read about whats involved in actually takeing one aparto to install hardware other than the RAM which they make really easy. If you really want internal like speeds you g

Internal drive or external for PT?

2013-02-26 Thread Poppa Bear
I was looking at getting another drive to record and save my PT projects because everywhere I read it is suggested for optamal recording. I have a 2011 21.5 Imac and was considering just adding another drive, but htere seem to be some issues with the heat detection sincers not detecting any over

Re: An excellent tutorial for pro tools on youtube

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Wow, you didn't have to do that converting them, I could have watched them online. Thank you though. I'm very greatful. That is very appreciated. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3

Re: An excellent tutorial for pro tools on youtube

2013-02-26 Thread trevor
For Chris and anyone else who is interested, find the links for the tutorials below. http://www.sendspace.com/file/ge36y8 http://www.sendspace.com/file/4zsvof Cheers, Trevor -Original Message- From: Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:29 AM To: ptaccess@g

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Casey
The annoying thing with the pro/vs retina is I can't seem to be able to configure a pro without retina with 16 gigs of ram. Think I'm going off mac for a while anyway, perhaps its not the time to jump in, there should be a new mac pro around in the next few years if they keep a high end soluti

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Monkey Pusher
Retina's don't have optical drives. they are essentially the Pro version of the AIR. Hell a maxxed out top of the line air is starting to get to the point of usuable for real work lol On 2/26/13, Brian Casey wrote: > The whole Retina model vs non retina model thing is bugging me > > There are s

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Casey
The whole Retina model vs non retina model thing is bugging me There are some interesting refurbished models knocking about at the moment, none with 8 or 16 gigs of ram hat have the optical drive though. But I think my questions about the apple audio chip are answered anyway, nobody seems

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Monkey Pusher
I believe the 13 inch are the ones that are limited to dual core processors. gotta go with a 15 inch if you want quad core in a laptop. Yeah cuz its an after market mod you would have to siled out the drive bay and put the cdrom drive back in if you had to take it in. T That being said, I challe

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Casey
Thanks for those thoughts. Yeah I'm confidednt of the performance of these new macbooks, but funnily enough I'm having trouble figuring the macbook pro vs retina thing on the mac websitemaybe the macbook pro without retina are restricted to dual core processors an d8 gigs ram or something,

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread TheOreoMonster
Any of the current Gen mac book pros or mac book pros retina should be fine. When you Boot Camp, apple provides you with all the windows drivers for the internal hardware of that speciffic computer so everything will work well under windows. If you get a current gen mac book pro with 8 or 16g

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Casey
Thanks Chris, From: Chris Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:10 AM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated Hire Brian. I use a macbook in my studio, and though its not anywhere near professional, I don't have any problems

Re: Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Chris
Hire Brian. I use a macbook in my studio, and though its not anywhere near professional, I don't have any problems with it, and its far from new, or even good spec. On the boot camp side, I rub that too, and it seems to do fine, although I only use it for less than demanding tasks. One thing

Re: An excellent tutorial for pro tools on youtube

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Can you provide us both the links or at least their watch ID's? Would love to throw them into mactubes. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time

Some boot camp questions quick responses very much appreciated

2013-02-26 Thread Brian Casey
Hey all, Appologies firstly, as some of these questions aren't directly PT related, but they all relate to me jumping back into protools, and really this list is the best knowledge base for this. Basically my studio windows machine is giving trouble and the daw builder in the UK I got it fro