HD on a Laptop?

[Sui_City]

Hey all

Is anyone running HD on a laptop using the Magma Cardbus expansion chassis?

Is it possible?

Thanks

[Fritz]

in theory, possible, with the newer version of Magma.
there's info in compatibility/HD/laptop

[CPettigrew]

Lots of us do it. I have a 17" Powerbook, 4-slot Magma chassis (33 MHz, Silencer fans), HD3, and I run audio off of a couple of FW800 drives (one OWC and one Western Digital in a Granite Digital chassis) and video off of a FW400/Canopus through a Granite Digital firewire hub. I've dubbed 3 TV movies this way; not one crash or problem. Track/voice count will be less than your desktop, but it's not bad. Set Playback Engine to 4, max out CPU usage, and you should be good to go.

Craig

[TDMnovice]

You bet, I've got a couple of Magams and they work great.

Here's a similar setup to what I use.

[Sui_City]

Thanks for the replies guys!

Just wondering, from what i have seen it only runs 96Khz.

Is this correct?

[Toko]

Hi !
Anyone succesfully running HD Accel with ProTools 6.4, 17 ´Powerbook 1,5 Ghz and Magma 4-Slot ? What´s the maximum track count you get ?

Regards !
Tom

[Sui_City]

Sorry.

Just want to clarify the point of does this HD on Laptop only record at 96Khz?

Thanks again

[CPettigrew]

It will record at whatever you tell it; 44.1-192.

Craig

[6-ss.com]

17" Hammerhead (1Ghz, 1GB, OSX3.3)
6.4 TDM on HD-2 Accel - (Magma CB4 DRQ)
Glyph GT-308 (SCSI/FW400) (+1200GB)

108-120 trks@24/48k
80-90 trks@24/88.1k

I don't work at 192, but I'll post more figures when (if) I do. Works great, no flaws and I'm running this setup 14-20 hrs/day, everywhere. Mostly, I use it to track 32inputs at 24/48 or mix down up to 60 tracks with minimal DSP - which is a dream. How many of us out there really sport more than 100 tracks at once is a question I have..

I've seen this post up and wanted to let you know that THIS SYSTEM WORKS and works well. I'm hoping to transfer it all to a G5 which I'm having Glyph rackmount for me.

-Sean.

[Toko]

Hi Sean !

Great, thanks a lot for the info !

Tom