Hey, it is time to get me a new laptop, but my knowledge ends on gaming things and I dont know what spec’s is best for using vst plugins, abelton and traktor…
My aim is to get i7 core, loads of ram and probably intel graphichs or nvdia, I’m not sure about AMD or athlon.
Anyway what will work best for music production or mixing (mainly I’m mixing with 4-deck controller,) + if I add some more controllers?
And the last question is do I need a separate sound card if controller has one? How latency is affected by sound card? Thanks!
I would honestly recommend this computer … I have the same one except its the brushed steel one with beats audio. Better then a MAC BOOK in my opinion and way cheaper. I run ableton with vst’s all the time never have had any problems with it
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.
That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.
Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
I built a Custom ASUS laptop Dual SSD Drives, 24 GB of Ram, Custom LED Lighting 17 inch. More power than the 15 Inch Mac Book Pro can dish out for a much cheaper price.
FIrst choose the OS you are comfortable with and go from there. Its about ease of use for the user, there is no better choice over the other unless you are strapped for cash and simply cant spend another 500 bucks to get your moneys worth.
most laptops can handle the tasks these days… i would reccomend something designed with low noise (properly grounded motherboard) like a lenovo or a mac, which ever floats your boat. both have their advantages and both can run windows, mac and linux
i have had some success with some toshibas as well.
seems there are choices, but it is limited with a budged I got, which sucks now… anyways a random laptop with mac os? sounds interesting.
I got some problems with latency, when I set up asio4all on 512samples (default) I get 36ms on traktor, if I set it on terminalmix4 I get 20ms which cannot be adjusted, but why asio is so high? If I try to decrease samples on asio then I can hear craks and pops…
Well I hope the problem is solved with latency, downloaded win asio driver from reloop forums, and it gives more options on such things like latency, if I hear any pops or cracks then it must be my crappy old laptop. Seem that if traktor is set on REALTIME in task mananger it is more stable then.
I never liked beats, never tryed them, but is it really that good for at latency, delay time?
Yep, well said and same boat. It’s not a fanboy thing at all- OSX has huge real advantages over windows in terms of audio applications. I made the switch when I had a Xone: 4D as the windows drivers had issues and on a mac it was perfect. I’ve gone back and forth a bit and a year ago tried having a windows studio computer and it was a nightmare with audio latency and doing just about anything with MIDI. Good luck trying to do any complex midi routing or using something like Lemur or Touch OSC or the like- you will have to download and install ancient software from the windows 95 era called midiyoke to have a chance of getting it to work if you can manage to install it and get it running properly it is shaky at best. OSX midi routing is all native and flawless.
