Re: Was Re: mobius for mac Now, Slight Tangent ...

["Dennis Moser" <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Per ... that's exactly the kind of data I'm looking for ... I
figured Firewire was going to be my friend if I went the PC route
anyway and I probably won't be doing any serious effects chains in
that environment yet anyway (still using a lot of outboard hardware
for that as it is, adnd I what I do have in software is Mac-specific
... :-( ...).

Dennis

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on minimum specs for a USED PC laptop to run Möbius as an
>> audio machine? Obviously, I can add RAM (but it means having a machine
>> to which RAM can be added) and put in a new larger hard drive.
>
>
> Yes. My first Mobius laptop was a ZEPTO centrino with a single core 2
> GHz CPU (Intel P-M 755 2 MB Cache) and 1 GB ram. That machine worked
> perfectly well, crystal clear sound even when simultaneously
> manipulating eight parallel tracks or loops. I often made minute long
> stereo loops. It seems looping audio is pretty light on the processor.
>
> However, the ZEPTO could not handle everything when I started to build
> also sound design effect chains to play through. What happened then
> was that I got audio artifacts when playing through my most CPU heavy
> patches.
>
> For laptops I have only had good results with firewire (and card bus,
> PCMCIA) based audio interfaces. I have tried a couple of USB2 based
> interfaces but they did not deliver clear sound, so I took them back
> to the vendor.
>
> --
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
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