Ableton Forum

spiral wrote:

dru wrote:I don't think any computer is equipped with MIDI in are they? That's part of the audio interface you use.

the last computer i saw with midi out of the box in was an atari st
macbook pro if you can afford it

the Atari 1024 ST is 'almost' portable...has midiin...and cubase is rock solid..

ok guys...

and now the big question: WHERE TO BUY ?

I am in germany and i searched around the web, but i only find 2 Shops where i can conifgure the system:

www.dell.de (ONLY VISTA ! )
www.alienware.com (good machines, bad design)

some other GOOD shops ??

thx

macbook pro with built-in MIDI??? Sounds like bullshit to me. I've never seen one and it isn't in the specs also.

A midi-in (like on the atari) also is not enough, you need midi out as well (certainly if you use a ctrller with motorized faders or rotary encoders (like the b-controls from behringer)). Otherwise your knobs won't get any feedback from live...

So I think any laptop user needs a seperate usb/midi interface or a controller with USB-interface...

Airwave wrote: I'd go for the macbook instead of the mbp because it's smaller, and you can change the hd on your own.

L.

Really?

I'm all set on getting a Macbook Pro in a few months, mainly with the inention of using it to play out live with eventually.

Are the main differences between the mb and mbp just size and memory?