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jhcontact
01-10-2002, 07:53 PM
Have a Dell pentium III 600 with 128MB RAM.

Wondering if this would be a good portable setup:

Tascam USB428
Sonar
10 GB hard drive (advice on RPM and seek times)

Thanks,

James
everett_chris
01-11-2002, 06:25 PM
What you describe should work pretty well, but how is the hard drive hooked up? Firewire is OK, but USB is worthless for this.
jhcontact
01-11-2002, 08:11 PM
It would be firewire. Talked to someone at Sweetwater today and they recommended the Glyph firewire drives.
AcousticPro
02-04-2002, 06:03 PM
The Glyph recommendation is good, but I'm wondering about the viability of a laptop for doing audio. Are you planning on it being an editing station primarily? I can't imagine recording a band on a laptop without hauling my favorite tracking monitors, at least a good pre or two, etc. I can't imagine mixing without good monitors and I definitely can't imagine mixing with a laptop whirring in my ear. I would think long and hard about how viable this type of situation is and whether it really is a solution. Hope this makes sense, just another outside perspective.