Ableton Forum

i am not especially technically minded, buttons scare me to be honest. am thinking of buying live, but not sure whether my soundcard will be brilliant for it. i am on a g3 ibook that i purchased about 9 months ago, no modifications or anything. will live kill my laptop, or will it treat it nice and i can bang out some tunes?

hey rnuk,

i'm on a G3 ibook as well and it runs Live very well.
I don't think you could use its internal souncard cause it's not the better sound u could get, i own a m-audio quattro and it works ok!

anyway Live on a G3 will work without any problems, i have a limit of 20 tracks more or less with some plugins.

cheers
M.

I have a G3/800 iBook, and apparently (on Macs) it doesn't get much better for Live.

So click on downloads and get the demo and see if it works for you.

I've used Live 3 on an iBook and it works pretty well.
I've been working with 4 or 5 tracks of loops or so 3-4 effects going and it does pretty well with that.

4 or 5 loops going at once with some effects going may not sound impressive, but it's totally usable, and for me it's more about being able to work in the unique way that live allows me, than being able to have a bazillion tracks going at once.

Get the most out of it by rerecording your loops through the effects that you don't tweak (such as compression), and putting effects on sends when possible.

I use a 900 mhz with 384 megs of RAM. You need some extra RAM, TBH... but I think Live runs very smoothly. I get maybe 10 tracks, some VST comps, a few filters and a Live Verb on a send. Works a treat.

The in built audio will be fine for most things but it won't give you an extra out for previewing and obviously there's no input, which may or may not bother you.

-Paws

oh..and i rewire reason.. which accounts for some cpu drain