Mac Pro Quad 2.66 4gb Ram. Good setup for Live?

[ICN]

I'm waiting for my brand new Mac Pro 2.66 quad to be delivered.. Any day now!! Cant wait.

I've got 4gb of Ram with it too.. so I was wondering if anyone could tell me how you find live responding on your Mac?

Does anyone have this same configuration? I'm getting 2x 250gb drives with it and a 192 Audiophile Soundcard.

Does / would it strain the Mac easily? Does its performance struggle? At what point does it start to give up on you or has it caused you any / many issues?

I think it should be an excellent set up (famous last words..) - but I would really appreciate your opinions as y'all have probably had the time to weigh up all the pros & cons!

My only worry about it is that Live seems quite a hungry program at times.

Cheers,

J

[dodgyedgy]

LOL

no its rubbish, send it back and get a dell.

[nowtime]

yeah, mine's so slow and weak I gave it away and bought a new powerful top-of-the-line 4-track casette recorder!

[nagal]

192 Audiophile Soundcard.

Wont work with the MacPro as there are no PCI slots in the machine.

[Tarekith]

Stupidest attempt at bragging ever...



"Hi guys, will my top of the line Mac work ok with Live?"

[sweetjesus]

i dont have a mac, but on my quad core live is a dream to use.

i was running vista which was the a bit nicer than xp, but had to go to xp due to problems in audio OUTSIDE of live... :S

either way 4 x cores + 4 gb ram = big boner

[ICN]

To the children: Thanks for the laugh Guys - maybe Santa Claus will bring you a Mac for Christmas!! Seriously - It wasn't meant to be bragging.

To the genuine advice: Cheers for that. Its nice to get feedback.. appreciate it!!

[Tarekith]

LOL, was just kinda funny that's all. Like asking "hey, I just go a new lamborghini, will it be ok on the autobahn?".

[ICN]

Its cool Man.. I'm in work & its keeping me going!!

[sweetjesus]

To the children: Thanks for the laugh Guys - maybe Santa Claus will bring you a Mac for Christmas!! Seriously - It wasn't meant to be bragging.

To the genuine advice: Cheers for that. Its nice to get feedback.. appreciate it!!

if i were you, i would wait like 3 weeks before deciding what to buy... theres gonna be some massive price drops coming our way soon.

[ICN]

Thanks for the tip.. Got an absolutely amazing deal on it.. Cant complain mate!

[ICN]

192 Audiophile Soundcard.

Wont work with the MacPro as there are no PCI slots in the machine.

Hi Nagal.. Thanks for the warning.. really appreciate it.

Just checked there - Mac Pro has PCI Express. Thanks a million.. you have saved me a lot of bother Mate!!

I've been looking at USB / Firewire S/card reviews for the last few Hrs.. My eyes are falling out of my head at this stage.. Anyway, think I will go with the Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1. Seems good VFM, and has a midi controller on it.

[noisetonepause]

The McPro (worst. name. ever.) has both analogue and digital inputs onboard. They'll work fine with Live and give you as low a latency as anything USB or Firewire (I can take it to about 10ms on my iBook G4 - you shouldn't have a problem with your McPro unless you're playing an actual instrument together)... You *might* want something of a higher quality, but to be honest I'd get the computer first and wait a few weeks to decide. The built-in audio on Macs is really good.

If you need more than one stereo in/out it's different, of course, but most people don't these days.

If you need a mic pre just get something with a digital out and connect it that way.

[mmikhjian]

if you get a external, make sure you get firewire and not usb

[Pasha]

if you get a external, make sure you get firewire and not usb

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