Looking for a program to…
I work 24 hour shifts. Sometimes I would rather make music than watch tv/ps3. I have a small Acer Aspire netbook and an Akai LPD8. Is there a light weight program I could install to make beats with?
maybe abelton live lite? not sure if that’s light enough!
I might try it. I am running an Atom core, 1.6 GHz, maxed out at 1.5GB ram
Magic music maker 
I’d do Ableton Live Lite as well. It’s the perfect program for all DAW needs and it’s the lite version so that way you don’t have to worry about space on your computer!
Anyway if you choose Ableton Live Lite (a.k.a. intro version) one of our esteemed members is selling theirs on the forum for $75. Here’s the link:
You are just shameless aren’t you 
there is a free daw called Kristal Audio Engine…
check it out. Not sure if it’s any good.
thanks a bunch fellas
you can also get teh demo of Ableton on their website…
I have ableton at home and love it. It also occurred to me that I have an issue of Computer Music magazine that has a stripped version of Reaper on it. I am probably going to give that a go (it is free).
Magic music maker looked promising but it costs around $50.
Kristal Audio Engine looked really cool, but no midi support.
If Reaper is sluggish/isn’t my cup of tea, I will probably go with Ableton Lite.
I’m not sure ableton is what you are looking for. It always seeed fairly beefy when I used it. Why not look at all the standard DAWs and see which one has the lowest system requirements?
24 hour shifts? Where the fuck do you work?
you’ll just have to freeze channels more often. I used live on a Celeron powered notebook for quite some years.