Jerry W.
07-22-2010, 12:15 PM
Hey everyone.
I was just responding to another thread where I reminded myself how up till now, I've always had less-than-stellar hardware to use when creating scores and music. Most of my hardware was on the very bottom end of the "minimum requirements" heading.
When scoring for film, I used to render the video clip to the lowest possible resolution just so it wouldn't KILL Finale or DP or Logic while trying to do anything musical for it. (And even then.... bleh!)
I used every little tweak and trick I could to maximize the ability for my pathetic system to run my music production apps. And I remember on many of those frustrating times thinking to myself: "I bet it is nice to have a decent computer to run things with, like So-and-So has, etc. I would get green with envy at reading the specs many of the Garritan Forum members' systems.
But no more! :) I have upgraded to a MacbookPro. Now, the one I bought is older, so I didn't really expect TOO MUCH of a performance boost. But I was really shocked. It is like a night and day difference!
Now, I can load up a full orchestra in Finale (ARIA GPO4) and have a video (FULL 1920x1040 HD) playing on an attached monitor and absolutely NO hiccups! I'm amazed and floored. The graphics card for my MB is very robust, so I know that helps,. but I have yet to experience the audio drop off and overload I used to get all the time. )(~
I haven't tried to max it out yet. I think I'll try that sometime. I know it will have limitations, but - I just cannot believe the difference between the Powerbook G4 and the MacBook pro.
(I can only imagine what an 8-core MacPro would do!!) :wow:
Sorry this is OT - but... It really takes a lot of the headache out of my workflow these days!
Jerry
I was just responding to another thread where I reminded myself how up till now, I've always had less-than-stellar hardware to use when creating scores and music. Most of my hardware was on the very bottom end of the "minimum requirements" heading.
When scoring for film, I used to render the video clip to the lowest possible resolution just so it wouldn't KILL Finale or DP or Logic while trying to do anything musical for it. (And even then.... bleh!)
I used every little tweak and trick I could to maximize the ability for my pathetic system to run my music production apps. And I remember on many of those frustrating times thinking to myself: "I bet it is nice to have a decent computer to run things with, like So-and-So has, etc. I would get green with envy at reading the specs many of the Garritan Forum members' systems.
But no more! :) I have upgraded to a MacbookPro. Now, the one I bought is older, so I didn't really expect TOO MUCH of a performance boost. But I was really shocked. It is like a night and day difference!
Now, I can load up a full orchestra in Finale (ARIA GPO4) and have a video (FULL 1920x1040 HD) playing on an attached monitor and absolutely NO hiccups! I'm amazed and floored. The graphics card for my MB is very robust, so I know that helps,. but I have yet to experience the audio drop off and overload I used to get all the time. )(~
I haven't tried to max it out yet. I think I'll try that sometime. I know it will have limitations, but - I just cannot believe the difference between the Powerbook G4 and the MacBook pro.
(I can only imagine what an 8-core MacPro would do!!) :wow:
Sorry this is OT - but... It really takes a lot of the headache out of my workflow these days!
Jerry