MAC MINI and ABLETON LIVE

ABRAXAS · Post by **ABRAXAS** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:22 pm

Does MAC MINI work well with ABLETON LIVE (3)?
Do i need an external hardware ?

best regards

anonymouse · Post by **anonymouse** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:16 pm

I'd recommend at least a mouse, keyboard and monitor.

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:23 pm

anonymouse wrote:I'd recommend at least a mouse, keyboard and monitor.

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Musicsoul · Post by **Musicsoul** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:55 pm

Yes it does work very well with ableton live 5.
(mac mini 1,25 1gig ram).

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:33 pm

My weapons of choice (3 months ago)

personally my set-up crashed quit a bit plus I was trying to run Reaktor, reverbs and what not and kept hitting a wall

so I sold it and bought a PC...I'm feeling the PC alot more than the mini - which will do the trick

but you might be better off saving some cheddar for a refurb'd IMAC or at least get the 1.4g mini and max out the ram

you'll still be able to write jams just might have to freeze and bounce a tad bit more

latezzz

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Alex Baldwin · Post by **Alex Baldwin** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:15 am

I run ableton live 5 on my mini...
It is 1.42Ghz w/ 1G ram.
It works well. I haven't maxed it out yet.
I do plan on getting a faster hardrive.
Probably the newertech from
www.macsales.com

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:37 am

running just one program with g4's aren't too bad but seriously when you start doing some serious stuff those machines will chug.

people dont understand the scope of how slow the g4 truly is.

my advice wait for intel machines if you're on the market for a new computer.

a standard mini has neither the speed, ram, or memory to handle music production.

its an entry level pc guys,

get an entry level windows pc and you'll run into the same problems.

kramerica · Post by **kramerica** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:42 am

Can anyone attest to the difference in speed b/w 1 and 2 gigs of RAM? I plan on getting a new MacBook and maxing the RAM but I wonder if the difference is minute or huuuuge.

Also, when buying a new mac, what harddrive should I be looking for (I don't really understand the differences in speed). Thx.

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:56 am

kramerica wrote:Can anyone attest to the difference in speed b/w 1 and 2 gigs of RAM? I plan on getting a new MacBook and maxing the RAM but I wonder if the difference is minute or huuuuge.

Also, when buying a new mac, what harddrive should I be looking for (I don't really understand the differences in speed). Thx.

well tell me what you're going for, what are your options?

speed, processor, etc.

1gig to a 2gig ram computer is a nice difference. you can def feel it, unless of course you aren't doing anything with the computer besides email,web, word then you cant really feel any difference for that matter.

think of the 5600rpm and 7200rpm just as you would view a car engine's rpm speeds.

however there are some reports that 7200rpm drives aren't that great.

say you get a 120gb running at 5600rpm vs a 100gb 7200rpm (which are equal in price) some say the 120 will be as fast or faster due to the leap in memory, some others will say no. its hard to really debate on forums. the only way is to really get to a tech, a real engineer to break it down for ya.

take note that if you get a 7200rpm drive that it will eat battery faster.

also note that if you plan on huge storage you're better off getting the standard 100gb drive and using an external drive to do most of your music storage.

really fast, really huge gb harddrives can be had a lot cheapter than upgradding the one on your laptop.

hope that helps.

leonard · Post by **leonard** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:21 am

Digi V wrote:people dont understand the scope of how slow the g4 truly is.

oh, I understand it alright.

leonard · Post by **leonard** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:42 am

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phil909 · Post by **phil909** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:18 pm

new intel based mac mini's look likely to be announced in the next month or so.

http://www.macrumors.com/

gaspode · Post by **gaspode** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:27 pm

Core Solo based mac mini's... Given how snappy my 2.0ghz centrino is I'd imagine that those bad boys will be a very good value...

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:29 pm

gaspode wrote:Core Solo based mac mini's... Given how snappy my 2.0ghz centrino is I'd imagine that those bad boys will be a very good value...

if the price points are the same they def would

for music production, when everything is optimized for duel core, then you really shouldn't be looking to buy a single core to do music.

i dont think people realize how fast and tasty this is all going to get =)

its all down to the developers though

gaspode · Post by **gaspode** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:58 pm

Digi V wrote:
for music production, when everything is optimized for duel core, then you really shouldn't be looking to buy a single core to do music.

i dont think people realize how fast and tasty this is all going to get =)

I agree that it'll certainly be nice, but for most of my tracks I generally am not taxing my 2.0ghz processor... I could certainly see having a very compact mac mini and a tiny display hooked into a portable rig to have some nice power squeezed in to some left over space...

though it would be pretty sick if they stuck a dual core 1.66ghz into the mac mini... we'll have to see where the price point lands for them