My old Ensoniq ESQ1 has been replaced by a Roland Juno-G but the ESQ1
is still in the basement somewhere. Weighs about 30-40 pounds so it
wasn't fun lugging around. I remember having a lot of fun with a Yamaha
DX7 in the early 80s making lots of interesting but not do musical
sounds with it. Now days there are kids and family life outside of work
so not much noodling with macs and music.
I still have some old PowerMac 9500s that I use for firewalls of all
things since they have no command line to hack into. As one dies I just
grab another from the pile.
CB
On 9/13/10 7:24 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
Speaking of old Mac gear, I know the Synclavier has been reworked around Modern
Intel Macs now. I wonder if you could grab an old post pro SD or 9600 from
Ebay and use it with Voice over. I saw one from Lucass Film on ebay for under
10 grand and I think you can get one from synclavier.com for under 25 grand
which might osund like a lot but they were 750 large back in the day.
I used to work with one (synclavier 6400) and loved it!
On Sep 13, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Right, this was just straight audio recording. Any processing was done with
outboard gear or post processed. Software synths and effects can definitely
chew up a lot of CPU. While I haven't played with this a lot I would assume
rendering out the processed track to a new track would free up some resources.
Back then we had a 32-channel analog Mackie fed into a Mac ProTools rig. At
home I was running a little MOTU 8-channel firewire box with their Sound Desk
software. Haven't played with it in years so I don't know if they even make it
anymore or if it would work with OSX. Someday I should put the stuff I don't
use up on ebay, just too much bother and would anyone still want a Emu Proteus
MIDI box or a DAT recorder anymore :)
CB
On 9/13/10 5:02 PM, Cameron wrote:
Hi. it depends on what sort of recording we're referring to; If we are
talking about audio tracks, or, soft synths/virtual instruments that use
wave streaming etc. the latter is where your processor and ram as well as
hd rpm really become important.
Are you a voiceover user by the way? If so, the current versions of logic
are not accessible. Pro tools is accessible for audio, but not for midi.
For example, the event list editor is not accessible with vo. Hopefully
that will be addressed in a future update.
Cameron.
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:51 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: duo core or i5 in mbp
Back in the day, like 10 years ago, I was able to record 8 concurrent
tracks on an old powerMac g4. I would suspect even mundane hardware
today could handle all but the most extreme cases.
CB
On 9/8/10 6:08 PM, Matthew Johnson wrote:
hi,
I'll be using this for lectures, some language stuff, and also
possibly for recording music with logic or garage band down the line.
My concern is future proofing. Unfortunately, you can't get the 7200
rpm harddrives in the 13 inch mbp's or I'd just go duo with a better
harddrive.
Gotta love apple's packaged deal options, instead of letting you
configure your heart out.
MJ
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