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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: georgedk on July 08, 2004, 12:56:44 AM
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I have searched to the end of the internet for insight on this issue and only have received half answered answers. I'm considering investing in a 1.33 ghz powerbook g4 laptop to run protools. With an external firewire drive (7200 rpm) and 512 megs of ram or a gig what kind of performance should I expect? Will it be sufficient to run protools with 32 tracks with plugins going? I know I expect too much from the powerbook but I plan to do live recordings, so would the powerbook handle recording 16 tracks (8 in from the digi 002 rack and 8 via lightpipe, stand alone from a motu 828) at 48 k? and since the 12' powerbook g4 only has one firewire 400 port and I may have the digi 002 rack and two firewire drives daisy chained should i suspect stutters in performance.
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you should be fine. for more info on this you can ask over at gearslutz or tapeop, but you will be fine.
also as a side note, which im sure you are aware of, you might want to get a master word clock for your system. you are gonna have all sorts of problems with digidrift between the motu and the 002 and whatever other digi gear you might have.
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thanks jspchust. anyone else run a rig like this or has insight into this issue.
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i have run this only i have a slightly faster processor (not much). and more ram, but you will be fine. you might want to consider getting some more ram in the near future though.
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I realize I'm late on this topic...
with audio recording/processing, ram is not as big a factor with regards to system performance(of course, this can also be app dependant...not the case with Digital Performer).
of course, I would still have at least 768(256 on board + 512 dimm), but that is for general OS performance.
we use a 867MHz G4 Powerbook and routinely run 20 channels via firewire 400 daisychaining a MOTU828(8 analoug), MOTU828mkii(10 analoug + 2 spdif) and a Glyph 7200rpm hard drive with no jitter/artifacts.
when we need to sync slocks we can use either the 828mkii as the master, or slave that to a external...