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As far as I know, these both words are terms for the performance of Speakers they can last.

RMS is the sound intensity a speaker can keep playing without taking any damage.

Peak is the highest sound intensity a speaker can put out, but only for very short moments before it would take damage from ...

I got 2 another ideas for my hardware to start.

1.

NI Maschine: Sounds like lots of fun, but way of expensive for me atm.


2.

Novation Launchpad + Novation Nocturn 49

not as expensive as the Maschine, includes the Lite Version of Ableton and i think its nice to have a keyboard,especially as ...

@ Nick Shepherd: Okay, that answers my question better than I expect, thanks a lot!! :mrgreen:

And I'm really sorry for my noobielike-questions, but I bet they will become more complex when I've got more experience :wink:

@ necho: Mh that Geist is kind of mysterious, maybe not a good way if I ...

Hello guys,

I'm still totally unexperienced and for now I am thinking of buying a good Controller. In my researches in the internet I found this:

http://www.thomann.de/de/native_instruments_maschine.htm

Is the Maschine sth I can create sounds or little passages of a track with, in order to ...

The Macbook i bought is of the year 2009, but i think/hope it will work well ^^. Its my first Mac so i hope i don't get disappointed ^^

Okay, my Descision is made.

I bought a Macbook Pro on Ebay with the following specs:

- MacBook Aluminium Unibody 13"
- 2,4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 4GB Ram
- 250GB Festplatte
- DVD Combo-Laufwerk (DVD schauen, CD brennen)
- Grafikchip NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
- Apple Care bis 25.03.2012
- Snow Leopard ...

Spec wise it seems more than capable, but it's a home-entertainment machine, isn't it? How good is the internal soundcard of it since you won't be buying dedicated interface for now? I would sacrifice some of the specs and stick to MacBook or 13 inch MacBook Pro because I could trust the quality ...

What about this one for 1040 euro?

Intel® CoreTM i5-460M, 2,53GHz
Legales Windows® 7 Home Premium
Deutsch (QWERTZU)
Weiß
320 GB Serial ATA (7200 U/Min)
6 GB 1066MHz DDR3-SDRAM
Blu-ray Disc(TM) Player
39,4 cm LCD, 1920x1080, Kamera
ATI MobilityRadeon HD5650 1GB

Sounds interesting. What is the difference between ableton Intro and Ableton LE ?
do i need to upgrade it immeadiately or is LE just enough to start up?

Isnt the Akai apc sth like a launchpad? sry if my question is stupid, lack of knowledge and experience ^^

Which performance has ur Powerbook ...

Thanks, thats very helpfull! Now I am considering a Sony Vaio with 8 gb 1333 Ram, 500Gb 7200 HDD (cuz ssd is to expensive). and an intel i5 560m or i7 740qm. is the difference of 250 euros between this two intels worth it? My Moneybag says that 250 less would be nice ^^ and something else to ...

Thanks for your answers.

Could you give me some numbers? Is the recommended performance of ableton ok or is it still not enough?

Hello @ All,

this is my first topic in this forum and I need some help in order to start into the world of Ableton.
I have used the Search-Engine but couldn't found enough information.

So thank you, especially those who tries to help me ^^

So my first question is:

What do I really need to start ...