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by darcy
Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:00 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?
Replies: 16
Views: 4973

Re: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?

the guy's limited by money but needs a mac? get off the iHeroine and get a PC.


/had to be said.

I'm the biggest Mac fanboy you know and I even think the Macbook Air is a stupid choice here for music of any capacity. Beyond that it's also the stupidest priced computer they make. They ...
by darcy
Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:49 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?
Replies: 16
Views: 4973

Re: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?

Well, I deserve that - I replied to this topic because of my interest in the Macbook Air, but I am not interested in the 4200 RPM drive, rather the SSD - which is not what the topic subject reads at all...

If I got an MBP, I would opt for the SSD there too. SSD is the the big upgrade here in my ...
by darcy
Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:13 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?
Replies: 16
Views: 4973

Re: MacBook Air: is the 4200rpm HDD good for Live?

With a USB port, I wouldn't use an ext. hard drive. I also find 4200RPM is slow, and I would be nervous to make shows with such small speed. Maybe you could bring Live demo and a live set to the store and try it out.

Just my 2 cents.
It seems a good idea, I'll put everything on a flash drive and ...
by darcy
Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:33 pm
Forum: Users' Help Exchange - closed
Topic: Live 6.0 will not detect my firewire 410
Replies: 1
Views: 966

you probably will need to post more information about what setup you are running and any other relevant info so people can help.

did you have live 5 before and it worked?

i am running osx 10.4.8, live 6.0.1, macbook pro and it runs great with my 410
by darcy
Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:45 pm
Forum: Users' Help Exchange - closed
Topic: Updating ID3 tags caused ALS files to crash Live 6
Replies: 5
Views: 2306

Hello Amaury -

Sorry for the late reply. Yes this was just the ID3 tags, not the file name. I don't think the ID3 tags are the root of the problem, however.

For better clarification, here are the steps, I can recreate it every time.

1. create new live set
2. drag mp3 file into set (with or ...
by darcy
Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:09 pm
Forum: Users' Help Exchange - closed
Topic: Updating ID3 tags caused ALS files to crash Live 6
Replies: 5
Views: 2306

Updating ID3 tags caused ALS files to crash Live 6

Disclaimer: I took a look through the forum and didn't see anything about this, but I may have missed it.

All of a sudden, Live 6 started lagging in the browser and would crash as soon as I would attempt to bring in an als file into the session view - either via click and drag or copy/paste. Every ...