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Re: OT: new Macbook wíthOUT Firewire :(






> Per Boysen wrote:

>> I've just been around doing a bunch of gigs with Mobius VST/Windows
>> (on the MacBook) and I think a small miracle would be needed to get
>> the same performance power into the Mac version. My experience so far
>> is that for live processing of a live audio input Windows works better
>> (meaning zero tolerance for drop-outs or any kind of audio artifacts).
>> Then I have been a pro user of Mac since the early nineties and I do
>> prefer Mac OS X for everything else  ;-)
> 
van Sinn wrote:
> Interesting.  Last October I attended a Logic Studio seminar, held by 
> Erik Metall from Sweeden.  He ran a pretty large multi-track studio 
> arrangement in Logic on a Macbook, no hickups at all.
> Erik didn't loop at all, only played bass through this setup to demo 
> building the sound, so of cause I can't evaluate how robust it is.
>

..but multi-track studios aren't the same type of stress on the system as 
live audio processing.

I'd guess that the SRC used by mac audio to match the clock rate used by 
the application
to that of the audio interface is responsible for the difference.


andy butler