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What Dual Mac is enough for 002
I feel like I am running around in circles trying to decide what MAc to buy. I want to get Digi 002. At first I thought new Powerbook, but I would want to use the powerbook for many other computing needs and that will probably bog it down so now I am thinking I should buy a used dual g4 as a dedicated 002 machine and put nothing else on it. There are many used duals for sale. dual 533's on up. I need recomendations.. What do you think would be the lowest dual I should buy. MY purpose is for a songwriting demo studio and also music library. On the music library the finals will be mixed on a friends elaborate 888 studio. I am just recording the basics at my place. help!!
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Re: What Dual Mac is enough for 002
I am using a Quicksilver era dual gig G4, and it works very well. If you can find any of these, they would be fairly inexpensive.
Currently, I am still using OS9, but able to get fairly good performance; plenty of tracks and plugins. I expect better results when I finally switch over to OSX, but I'm not in a hurry. Dave |
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Re: What Dual Mac is enough for 002
IT may not have to be a DUAL mac.
At this time i am using a 466 which has been turned into an 800 with a 2 MB L3 cache. This thing with my 002 is able to have 4 RVERBs (Waves), 3 S1s, 8 RComps, couple delays, 6 buses, an L2, L1,*one linear multiband, RBass, 3 RVox; all in 16/44.1 of coarse, but still. I usually have 16-20 tracks, though so your needs are probably greater. I too, create spots for radio, jingles, etc. My point is, you can do great things with such a set-up, though most would find it flacid.
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