surfmonkey Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 First, let me say I know nothing about mac's. Okay, now, my question is: Will a G4 500 be enough horsepower for me? I am planning on using this mac to do my sequencing, although I plan on converting my P.C. into a sampler. I would like to be able to run a few VSTi's, or soft samplers, alongside say 10-14 tracks of audio with minimal plug-in's . Is this asking too much? In the P.C. world this would definitely not be enough, but I know that mac's differ. Help me out. Thanks. I have no homepage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curve Dominant Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Go for it. You'll be fine. I run 24 tracks of 24 bit audio, lotsa plugins, and TONS of automation in Pro Tools on a B&W G3 350. Never crashes. Just make sure you DEFINITELY use a seperate hard drive for the audio. I use, and highly recommend, OWC Mercury Elite FireWire drives. 60GIG drives are $179. OWC Mercury Elite Pro 7200RPM FireWire Drive Solutions order# OWCMEFW60GB 1-800-275-4576 Have fun. Eric Vincent (ASCAP) www.curvedominant.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alndln Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by Curve Dominant: [b]I run 24 tracks of 24 bit audio, lotsa plugins[/b][/quote]Softsynths eat a lot more,especially in conjuction with plugs,but you should be able to get a workable balance,especially if you do a lot of rendering of soft synths. "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curve Dominant Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 [quote]posted by Alndln: [b]Softsynths eat a lot more,especially in conjuction with plugs,but you should be able to get a workable balance,especially if you do a lot of rendering of soft synths.[/b][/quote]Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that. But still, what the brother said. I use synths, but I play them and record them as audio. Kinda different yo? Still, you gotta just dive in, don't be shy, start recording and making music. Like the brother said, you'll find a balance, and your system will tell you what it can handle and what it can't. But you will only find those boundaries by testing those boundaries. Then it's a matter of working within those boundaries, and simultaneously innovating on ways to stretch the envelope of what your system can handle. It reminds me of a thread that's currently on the Gearslutz forum, about how to get a DAW to do things that one would do on a large-scale mixing console. Once you start thinking "out of the box," it's amazing what you can get even the most rudimentary rig to accomplish. What you need is a vision of what you want to accomplish in the end...then work backwards, and innovate techniques to accomplish that. Make it happen. Fortune favors boldness. Eric Vincent (ASCAP) www.curvedominant.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alon Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 A G4 500 is more than enough horsepower for the uses you described, as others have already pointed out. The amount of audio tracks isn't really a problem, as you will be able to get many. Get either a second internal IDE drive, or a firewire drive, or both, and use that for audio. Just don't expect to go softsynth crazy. You'll be able to run a few, but you''ll quickly run out of CPU power, if attemping to run a few heavy duty softsynths or effects. alon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
where02190 Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 [url=http://www.calculatedrisc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ptbench/]The DAVEC test and benchmarks for Macs[/url] Hope this is helpful. [url=http://www.npstudios.com]www.npstudios.com[/url] Hope this is helpful. NP Recording Studios Analog approach to digital recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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