Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

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Re: Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

Post by darkcatt » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:54 pm

duckpow wrote:
Bizon wrote:Macbook Pro for Music and an HP laptop for everything else. Keeps it nice and simple.
same here.
Works really well, considering mac's one down fall: heavy programing based math tools... -.- Here I use win. But for music, stay away from win unless you wan't to spend hours tweaking it to bit's...

So one macbook pro for music and one hp laptop for math (internet, malware, vira, and other sorts of entertainment)!

If you get Ashampoo's Winoptimizer you can tweak your system in about 10 minutes.

MAc is based of a UFS or Unix kernal and is vastly superior to Microsofts NTFS, however the cost for a Mac Pro is just too high for me to justify. I have made a MAc Clone and had amazing success
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Re: Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

Post by swishniak » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:36 pm

i have 2 macbook pros, both on the road with me and ready to run any project, should one die or run away.

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Re: Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

Post by FrankieP » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:46 pm

Let's see... I got a new 17' MBP dedicated for running Live and Logic, Before that an ADK PC running Nuendo now being used solely for sample playback and a lil bit of mixing since it still houses 2 UAD1 cards. I got a Dell Laptop for financing, email and Office duties, got a Mac Mini in the kitchen for the kids and an iPad for the wife. To totally geek out, I have also 2 selfbuilt HTPCs for movies one in the family room and the other in my dedicated Home Theater. Oh, and a unRAID box for storage and mediaserver duties.

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Re: Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

Post by simpleton » Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:16 am

I only got one Axe, and she's finely tuned.
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Re: Does anyone use a sepearte computer for making music?

Post by Khazul » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:30 am

ark wrote:If you use a computer exclusively for making music, how can you check your email onstage?
Get an iphone ;)
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