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okay deep breath..
I have a 550MHz Powerbook G4, (it's a few years old obviously) and I am currently discovering the joys of Ableton Live. I've been using it with Reason 2 and I'm making a right auld racket.
you see, I'm a bit out of touch with more recent soundcard technology, having been on hiatus from making and recording music on a computer for a while. besides I was previously a PC user!
anyway, my powerbook is from the era when apple made the baffling decision not to include line/mic inputs. I wish to record external material (eg: guitar) so obviously I need an input.. or inputs I guess! the more the merrier, (I also play drums apparantly..). Anyway here's what I'd like to do, and if anyone has any suggestions/recommendations regarding this annoying question, I'd be really grateful. THANK YOU!
1. I would like to record. more than one track at a time would be VERY nice, but not essential.
2. I don't need multiple outputs, but I'm not offended by them
3. something relatively portable. A break out box is perfectly cool with me. as long as it's not MASSIVE!
4. A latency related question. This is my biggest wonderment: I would like to be able to play (eg; guitar/voice) through my computer and monitor er, live through Live while adding effects in realtime. I've done this a few times before on a crappy old PC before but with an atrocious latency time. Is this issue solvable with a soundcard or is it purely a processor issue? oh, and I hope to run it with reason 2 as well. they seem to sync together quite nicely. does this impact on overall latency.
5. If there are solutions, I suppose the cheaper the better, but suggest away anyway, regardless of le price..
hmm.. I had another desired condition but I can't remember it right now. pardon my ignorance on this subject matter, but ta for reading!!!
cheers. plug
okay deep breath..
I have a 550MHz Powerbook G4, (it's a few years old obviously) and I am currently discovering the joys of Ableton Live. I've been using it with Reason 2 and I'm making a right auld racket.
you see, I'm a bit out of touch with more recent soundcard technology, having been on hiatus from making and recording music on a computer for a while. besides I was previously a PC user!
anyway, my powerbook is from the era when apple made the baffling decision not to include line/mic inputs. I wish to record external material (eg: guitar) so obviously I need an input.. or inputs I guess! the more the merrier, (I also play drums apparantly..). Anyway here's what I'd like to do, and if anyone has any suggestions/recommendations regarding this annoying question, I'd be really grateful. THANK YOU!
1. I would like to record. more than one track at a time would be VERY nice, but not essential.
2. I don't need multiple outputs, but I'm not offended by them
3. something relatively portable. A break out box is perfectly cool with me. as long as it's not MASSIVE!
4. A latency related question. This is my biggest wonderment: I would like to be able to play (eg; guitar/voice) through my computer and monitor er, live through Live while adding effects in realtime. I've done this a few times before on a crappy old PC before but with an atrocious latency time. Is this issue solvable with a soundcard or is it purely a processor issue? oh, and I hope to run it with reason 2 as well. they seem to sync together quite nicely. does this impact on overall latency.
5. If there are solutions, I suppose the cheaper the better, but suggest away anyway, regardless of le price..
hmm.. I had another desired condition but I can't remember it right now. pardon my ignorance on this subject matter, but ta for reading!!!
cheers. plug
