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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

LOL

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

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

ICN wrote:192 Audiophile Soundcard.

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

Stupidest attempt at bragging ever...



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

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

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!!

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

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

ICN wrote: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.

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

nagal wrote:

ICN wrote: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.

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.

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

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

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