New to Ableton

[philly5118]

Whats up everyone. First time poster, hope to be a long time one.

Just picked up Ableton after hearing so many good things about it. I have DJed for over 3 years now and never thought about incorporating a laptop and ableton into the mix.

I just bought a 2400 AMD , 512 ram, 40 gig hd, 64 vid ram, laptop from emachines. its a widescreen so i thought it would be perfect. The specs sound pretty good. but i was told other wise?

I just want to make sure that this lptop will work up to my standards, i just wanna make sure its fine for shows and that i wont have preformance problems.

Also i can mix live right with it? like import clips on the fly and have it smoothly?

Fill me in yall

Thanks

Dave

[mosca]

that machine should perform no problem in a live setting. just make sure you optimize it for music (rather than home use - search the threads for XP optimization)

partition your drive or better still get an external FW drive for your music stuff. i use a laptop solely now for both live work and studio work and i've had no problems with it at all

laptops used to be notoriously glitchy in a live setting - that's a lot better now

proper planning and preparation prevents piss poor performance

word
mosca

[spiderprod]

i ave te same macine as you exept it is a slower 2000xp cpu.
i have never had any problems running live,sometimes the drive crashed but its because a laptop drive runs at 4200rpm and can only handle 8 simultaneous audio tracks.so i bought an external drive at 10000rpm & it works perfectly now.
also make sure you have a good sound card as it can bring a lot of troubles.
the only time it crashes it s when i use reason+live rewired in cubase with 8 audio tracks , about 10 vsti & 50 plugins.
but dont be troubled by others,your machine will do the job,my system never crashed on a gig

[philly5118]

right on dude. thakns so much. do you have aol or aim? would love to talk to you about ableton and your laptop. if you do, my sn is philly5118 on aim, shout me a holler

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