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VST designed laptop
Posted on: 17.01.2013 by Mi Gabele
Hey, it is time to get me a new laptop, but my knowledge ends on gaming things and I dont know what spec's is best for using vst plugins, abelton and traktor...
My aim is to get i7 core, loads of ram and probably intel graphichs or nvdia, I'm not sure about AMD or athlon.
Anyway what will work best for music production or mixing (mainly I'm mixing with 4-deck controller,) + if I add some more controllers?
And the last question is do I need a separate sound card if controller has one? How latency is affected by sound card? Thanks!
Romelia Stankard
19.01.2013
Originally Posted by tekki
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
Yep, well said and same boat. It's not a fanboy thing at all- OSX has huge real advantages over windows in terms of audio applications. I made the switch when I had a Xone: 4D as the windows drivers had issues and on a mac it was perfect. I've gone back and forth a bit and a year ago tried having a windows studio computer and it was a evening mare with audio latency and doing just about anything with MIDI. Good luck trying to do any complex midi routing or using something like Lemur or Touch OSC or the like- you will have to download and install ancient software from the windows 95 era called midiyoke to have a chance of getting it to work if you can manage to install it and get it running properly it is shaky at best. OSX midi routing is all native and flawless.
Nedra Fresneda
19.01.2013
Originally Posted by tekki
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
+1 to everything tekki said.
Marybelle Parden
20.01.2013		OMG integrated Beats audio? Talk about 0 latency! If Dr. Dre uses that s*it it must be the best.














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Random X
18.01.2013
Originally Posted by kadeunit
I would honestly recommend this computer .... I have the same one except its the brushed steel one with beats audio. Better then a MAC BOOK in my opinion and way cheaper. I run ableton with vst's all the time never have had any problems with it hp.jpg
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
Nickolas Weschler
17.01.2013		I would honestly recommend this computer .... I have the same one except its the brushed steel one with beats audio. Better then a MAC BOOK in my opinion and way cheaper. I run ableton with vst's all the time never have had any problems with it hp.jpg
Rolanda Clodfelder
17.01.2013
Originally Posted by Kazkox
Hey, it is time to get me a new laptop, but my knowledge ends on gaming things and I dont know what spec's is best for using vst plugins, abelton and traktor...
My aim is to get i7 core, loads of ram and probably intel graphichs or nvdia, I'm not sure about AMD or athlon.
Anyway what will work best for music production or mixing (mainly I'm mixing with 4-deck controller,) + if I add some more controllers?
Macbook Pro (someones going to say it)

Originally Posted by Kazkox
And the last question is do I need a separate sound card if controller has one? How latency is affected by sound card? Thanks!
No you wont need a soundcard. Any decent controller will have decent latency.

Also reccommend you do a search for DJ laptop, topic comes up at least once a week and theres tons of threads on the subject.
Mi Gabele
17.01.2013		Hey, it is time to get me a new laptop, but my knowledge ends on gaming things and I dont know what spec's is best for using vst plugins, abelton and traktor...
My aim is to get i7 core, loads of ram and probably intel graphichs or nvdia, I'm not sure about AMD or athlon.
Anyway what will work best for music production or mixing (mainly I'm mixing with 4-deck controller,) + if I add some more controllers?
And the last question is do I need a separate sound card if controller has one? How latency is affected by sound card? Thanks!
Romelia Stankard
19.01.2013
Originally Posted by tekki
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
Yep, well said and same boat. It's not a fanboy thing at all- OSX has huge real advantages over windows in terms of audio applications. I made the switch when I had a Xone: 4D as the windows drivers had issues and on a mac it was perfect. I've gone back and forth a bit and a year ago tried having a windows studio computer and it was a evening mare with audio latency and doing just about anything with MIDI. Good luck trying to do any complex midi routing or using something like Lemur or Touch OSC or the like- you will have to download and install ancient software from the windows 95 era called midiyoke to have a chance of getting it to work if you can manage to install it and get it running properly it is shaky at best. OSX midi routing is all native and flawless.
Nedra Fresneda
19.01.2013
Originally Posted by tekki
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
+1 to everything tekki said.
Marybelle Parden
19.01.2013		I put Le Lenny face at the end of my post, I thought people would believe I was being sarcastic. :P
Dottie Tabet
19.01.2013		I just ordered an Asus lappy with i5 and 6144MB RAM, can't wait to see how it is :-)
Mi Gabele
19.01.2013		Well I hope the problem is solved with latency, downloaded win asio driver from reloop community s, and it gives more options on such things like latency, if I hear any pops or cracks then it must be my crappy old laptop. Seem that if traktor is set on REALTIME in task mananger it is more stable then.

I never liked beats, never tryed them, but is it really that good for at latency, delay time?
Marybelle Parden
20.01.2013		OMG integrated Beats audio? Talk about 0 latency! If Dr. Dre uses that s*it it must be the best.














( ͡
Mi Gabele
20.01.2013		seems there are choices, but it is limited with a budged I got, which sucks now... anyways a random laptop with mac os? sounds interesting.
I got some problems with latency, when I set up asio4all on 512samples (default) I get 36ms on traktor, if I set it on terminalmix4 I get 20ms which cannot be adjusted, but why asio is so high? If I try to decrease samples on asio then I can hear craks and pops...
Stanley Topoleski
18.01.2013		most laptops can handle the tasks these days... i would reccomend something designed with low noise (properly grounded motherboard) like a lenovo or a mac, which ever floats your boat. both have their advantages and both can run windows, mac and linux

i have had some success with some toshibas as well.
Shawn Vanhaitsma
18.01.2013		I built a Custom ASUS laptop Dual SSD Drives, 24 GB of Ram, Custom LED Lighting 17 inch. More power than the 15 Inch Mac Book Pro can dish out for a much cheaper price.

FIrst choose the OS you are comfortable with and go from there. Its about ease of use for the user, there is no better choice over the other unless you are strapped for cash and simply cant spend another 500 bucks to get your moneys worth.
Random X
18.01.2013
Originally Posted by kadeunit
I would honestly recommend this computer .... I have the same one except its the brushed steel one with beats audio. Better then a MAC BOOK in my opinion and way cheaper. I run ableton with vst's all the time never have had any problems with it hp.jpg
OSX has standard features like MIDI over LAN/MIDI over WiFi and sound device aggregation.
With windows this does not work properly, is not supported natively, you have to run exotic applications for it.

That and it being more of a hassle free OS, wins me over any time.

Yes, I have been windows based for yonks, but after enduring windows OS for more than 15 years, and also supporting it on professional level, I went for mac.
These days I still wonder why it took me this long to go for mac!
Ervin Calvery
17.01.2013		I would just go for a MacBook Pro.
Nickolas Weschler
17.01.2013		I would honestly recommend this computer .... I have the same one except its the brushed steel one with beats audio. Better then a MAC BOOK in my opinion and way cheaper. I run ableton with vst's all the time never have had any problems with it hp.jpg
Rolanda Clodfelder
17.01.2013
Originally Posted by Kazkox
Hey, it is time to get me a new laptop, but my knowledge ends on gaming things and I dont know what spec's is best for using vst plugins, abelton and traktor...
My aim is to get i7 core, loads of ram and probably intel graphichs or nvdia, I'm not sure about AMD or athlon.
Anyway what will work best for music production or mixing (mainly I'm mixing with 4-deck controller,) + if I add some more controllers?
Macbook Pro (someones going to say it)

Originally Posted by Kazkox
And the last question is do I need a separate sound card if controller has one? How latency is affected by sound card? Thanks!
No you wont need a soundcard. Any decent controller will have decent latency.

Also reccommend you do a search for DJ laptop, topic comes up at least once a week and theres tons of threads on the subject.

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