can any one recomend a laptop?

[mrbenn]

that is good for wokring with audio editing and production software?

[professor]

mac G-whatever'snewthismonth

[hiroprotagonist]

i got a dell. theyre cheap reliable and pretty customizable.
got me a p4 2.8 ghz / 40 gb hd (80 external) / 256 mb ram (512 on the way) / 15" monitor
for about 1900$
all you need then is a decent soundcard and youre set :)

[audioinjection]

yeah, Dell's are decent laptops and price isn't bad either

[professor]

yeah, mac is at least another $3-400.00

[FILTERZ]

Got a toshiba , seems to work well and looks funky, i believe a few company`s make laptops specifically for music , ie red submarine and also philip rees and probably a few others maybe carillion , find their adverts in sound on sound and computer music magazines

[audioinjection]

or try Alienware ;)

[DJZeMig_L]

Sony bundle mastering suite with flagship VAIO PCs 09/03/2004



Sony Oxford EQ and Waves plug-ins included in PC bundle for audio mastering



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Sony’s VAIO computers are named in recognition of their multimedia aspirations — VAIO stands for ‘Video and Audio Integrated Operation’. The audio capabilities of the company’s two flagship PCs — the VAIO GRT notebook (pictured above) and VAIO RZ desktop machine — have recently been boosted with the inclusion of the Sonic Stage Mastering Studio software bundle, which enables users to record and process audio from their cassette or vinyl collections, for example, prior to burning to CD-R or archiving in a music library system. This bundle is not available separately from Sony’s machines; the software checks for specific code used in the Sony VAIO BIOS to prevent software piracy.


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The user interface (shown above) has been designed to be simple and intuitive, with a logical three-stage process. The first step is to record audio into the computer, either via the analogue microphone or line sockets (where provided), or via a suitable USB audio interface. As part of the VAIO package, the Edirol UA5 USB interface can be supplied to enhance the system with two high-quality microphone inputs (with phantom power), DI, line and S/PDIF inputs, all at up to 24/96 resolution. The interface also provides stereo monitoring outputs in both analogue and digital formats.
Simple noise-reduction facilities are included in the software to deal with typical cassette hiss, vinyl crackle or mains-related hum, and basic editing tools allow tracks to be ‘topped and tailed’, reordered or discarded. There is no waveform display, but start and end points can be auditioned and adjusted in much the same way as they are on Minidisc. Automatic track division can also be performed based on an adjustable audio level threshold. The software includes facilities to set fade-in and fade-out times for each track, and it can even submit samples of each track to Mood Logic’s on-line track database automatically, to acquire the Artist and Track details for logging and labelling purposes (see www.moodlogic.com for more information on this).


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Four advanced mastering tools are included with the bundle — a slimline version of the Sony Oxford parametric equaliser (shown here) and three Waves plug-ins. Additional plug-ins are promised for future releases of Sonic Stage Mastering Studio. The basic equaliser is a three-band version of Sony’s Oxford EQ, but a five-band version which also includes high- and low-pass filters is also available as a download for a modest additional cost of about £30. The Waves plug-ins comprise the Renaissance Bass enhancer, S1 Stereo Imager, and L1 Ultramaximiser, all in their full versions but optimised to run within the Sonic Stage environment. All four plug-ins have associated parameter libraries providing presets for various music genres, and additional user presets can be stored.
After ‘mastering’, users can change word length and sample rate for burning the material to CD-R in Red Book format, or for archiving it within Sony’s Sonic Stage Jukebox media library system. Naturally, the algorithm used for performing the conversion is Sony’s own Super Bit Mapping process.
The Sonic Stage Mastering Studio is available from Sony VAIO dealers — to find the one nearest you, surf to: dealerlocator.sony.co.uk and select ‘Laptop and Desktop PCs’ from the drop-down menu in the centre of the page.
Sony have also produced a new plug-in in their Oxford range. Transient Modulator allows users to modify the transients of the selected programme material, to accentuate or softening the attack of instruments such as drums and increase or decrease the effects of ambience. This useful and versatile effect is presented in a simple and straightforward user interface with clear metering. The plug-in is compatible with Mac OS 9 and OS X, and TDM, RTAS and Audiosuite plug-in formats. The TDM version for Pro Tools HD and HD Accel costs £340, while the non-TDM version for Pro Tools LE systems costs £170. Sony are also now offering software bundles comprising their Oxford EQ, Dynamics and Inflator plug-ins for Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools LE and TC Powercore running under Windows or Mac OS. The Pro Tools HD bundle costs £1116.25, the Pro Tools LE bundle costs £528.75 and the TC Powercore bundle costs £705. All prices include VAT.
E support@sonyplugins.com
W www.sonyplugins.com

Source : Sound on Sound.




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[Jimfish]

I advise yu to stay away from dell laptops for music production.. they dont work with many firewire soundcards cos of the shite firewire controllers in em. Dell support is useless and costs a fortune and after spending £60 quid with them and £70 on a decent firewire pcmcia card they STILL couldnt tell me how to fix the problem and get things working.
As far as they were concerned the firwire port in them is solely for digital cameras and hard drives.. they didnt even know you could get firewire sound cards!!

[Jimfish]

also only one of the usb ports works at a time on my dell laptop :evil:

[Jimfish]

yeah ive got a vaio laptop too and it works with anything i throw at it and its totally rock solid unlike this crappy dell

[MARKEG]

I'd say Sony. I've heard so many horror stories RE: Dell.

[djvartan]

i will never buy anything with the word SONY on it.
:twisted:

[Analbumcover]

You really need to check you don't get interference from the power supply as well. Some laptop power supplies cause all manner of interference through sound systems. Might not be a problem at home, but take your laptop out to a gig and you might be stuck having to use batteries and watching the power meter in horror as it vanishes half way through your live set... Dell used to be one of the worst offenders for this.

[Antinoise]

You really need to check you don't get interference from the power supply as well. .....Dell used to be one of the worst offenders for this.

YA.. when I use my dell with Final Scratch it creates a big ground hum.. But the solution to that is to use a 3 prong to 2 prong power cord and eliminate the ground connection. This applies to anyone ever having any ground loop problems with anything.

[dirty_bass]

Spearmint Rhino

[dan the acid man]

yeah dell's support is shocking, stay away

[Jimfish]

its beyond shocking


its the most abysmal customer service i have ever dealt with bar none

[djvartan]

bah who needs support when your a wizz at computers...
:lol:

[Jimfish]

im on the phone to the cunts right now

ive been pissing about with them for a week now and i havent even recieved a computer yet!!

sometimes i fell so frustrated with thier phone system i get physical urges to throw myself out the window :doh: