help for a new user

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dmas722
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help for a new user

Post by dmas722 » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:37 pm

I'm totally new to Live so I just have a few questions. I know most people have one or more laptops they use just for music, but can I use Live on my PC or will it use up all my memory? And can Live by itself make decent music or is there anything else I should get to go with it?

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Re: help for a new user

Post by kennerb » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:45 pm

dmas722 wrote:I'm totally new to Live so I just have a few questions. I know most people have one or more laptops they use just for music, but can I use Live on my PC or will it use up all my memory? And can Live by itself make decent music or is there anything else I should get to go with it?
These are extremely broad questions without much information given.

Live takes input (you) to make good music. There are enough tools in the package to get that done.

You're going to have to give tech specs for anyone to even touch you pc memory question. Best advice. Download the demo. It will take up just as much memory as the unlocked version. There are also threads on this site that give the performance results of many popular machines. Do a search for performance.

Cheers.
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dmas722
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Re: help for a new user

Post by dmas722 » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:53 pm

kennerb wrote:
dmas722 wrote:I'm totally new to Live so I just have a few questions. I know most people have one or more laptops they use just for music, but can I use Live on my PC or will it use up all my memory? And can Live by itself make decent music or is there anything else I should get to go with it?
These are extremely broad questions without much information given.

Live takes input (you) to make good music. There are enough tools in the package to get that done.

You're going to have to give tech specs for anyone to even touch you pc memory question. Best advice. Download the demo. It will take up just as much memory as the unlocked version. There are also threads on this site that give the performance results of many popular machines. Do a search for performance.

Cheers.
thanks. I didn't really need too technical of an answer for the PC memory question, I just wanted to make sure that I don't NEED a whole computer for this even though I know a lot of people like to keep their music stuff on a computer by itself. I have the demo installed and it runs fine, so thanks :D

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