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--- weaviestonder <weaviestonder@hotmail.it> wrote: > > A couple of more question for Mark: > > 1. how much RAM would you say a laptop would need to > function as a > looper? Can you give me a frame of reference? I think they say on the Mobius site that 1 gig of memory is a good amount to have (and many laptops come with at least 1 gig these days), but my laptop came with 2 slots and if you get it custom configured one of those slots was filled with a 1 gig chip. A second 1 gig chip for $150 brought me to 2 gigs. I got this to be more safe and run sampler software. When I had 1 gig of RAM I was able to get Live and a bunch of instruments and effects running perfectly. I've always figured it's best to bring your machine up to the highest specs you can afford though. Makes them last longer. > 2. is software for Mac less functional than that on > PC? Not by nature, but in this case Mobius is XP only. Can XP apps, including Mobius run on a new Mac? Yes. If I had unlimited cash and wasn't impatient, I'd have waited and gotten a Macbook Pro. However, I had a budget and I was able to get exactly what I wanted with a Toshiba laptop. Is Windows XP a bizarre, clunky, annoying, pestery security nightmare? Yes. However, once you reconfigure it and keep it off the web it works just as well. (but man is it ugly compared to the Mac OS!) If you go XP, plan on giving yourself a week of tweaking time to get it running for music. My Mac G5 was good to go out of the box. I was planning > to get a Mac, since I have heard from many people > that they are more > reliable than computers (no crashes, etc), which is > a big deal when you > are performing live obviously. Again, as long as you learn how to take care of a Windows box, they're pretty damn stable. The one time Live 5 crashed on me Mobius kept going and responding to MIDI messages. In a performance situation this would have given me plenty of time to fade my loops, starting a new one using my Vox Tonelab so I could do a reboot and continue seamlessly. Also, I was doing something fairly stupid when it crashed, like adding VSTis while a sequence was running. Not something I'd do in a performance. Also, they told me > most PCs have longer > delay in handling MIDI signal (sorry this > explanation is poor but my > English is insufficient here). Again, I don't think MIDI latency is much of an issue in any new machine with a USB interface. > 3. If I chose to get a Mac, would the hardware > requirements be > different? I mean, would I need more or less RAM or > more or less CPU to > do the same thing? I know when Mac was using the G5 chip there was not a direct way to compare clock speed. Often a PC needed as much as twice the clock to run the same app according to Reaktor 5's box. I know a lot of how an app runs on any OS depends on how it's optimized. I find a lot of apps that are Mac only work really well (Like Digital Performer) but others like Live run better because to cut corners they're not fully optimized for the Mac OS. I think this got corrected in Live 5 though, but I only run that on the laptop. > > Thank you all very much again, it's great to get to > talk to people who > have experience in this field and are willing to > share it and so patient > in talking to a newbie! :) You're on what I consider by far to be the best music list. Enjoy! I don't know why, but loopers seem to be the most knowledgeable and helpful people on this planet. Good luck, you're about to learn a very fun way to make music. Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com