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Are you happy with that mbox 2? i had an original mbox but i loved the m-audio much better actually and the price was less then half. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As I said it's been flawless. Plugged it into my mac's usb, installed PTLE and never looked back. The reason i picked it over the M-audio cards was mainly because of those focusrite preamps they've got in there, same as in my soundcraft mixer.

An iBook G4 with maxed out RAM will do, and be more stable.

I'm using a 12" iBook 1.2 GHz with 768 megs to run both Pro Tools LE and Serato, and I can recommend it. Not the fastest in its kind, but it'll run 32+ tracks in PTLE just fine.

Audiophile 2496 for the PC, MBox2 on the iBook. Both have been flawless so far.

I didn't mean ask about the book there, I meant the daily newbie questions over there and the answers to them will teach you more than the actual book.

I have an xl but haven't read it. Search the forums at mpc-forums.com and you're likely to learn more there.

Dj Serious! His last two lp's were the bomb imo.

Wish it was already there. I haven't been cutting much lately because the mpc drew the attention away, then my Rane got nicked, and now I need to wait until the 57 drops...

dayum looks like they changed that price just today. I wonder if I'd have ordered it, would they HAVE to sell it at that price?

Agreed, it's butt-ugly. But I can't wait till summer to hook that bitch up to my ibook and spin parties all summer long without breaking my back. Price tag around $ 1200 seems fair to me, but I'm afraid it'll be a lot more over here. Nice that they lost the psu as well! Note it's 110/240. Rane stated it's a sound card as well, so you *might* be able to hook it up to another mixer and use the ttm57 as a regular serato soundcard. Anyway, put some black eq knobs on there and this is the mixer to end them all... EDIT: preorder on djdeals.com for $999???? We'll see...

At the moment the powerbook g4 seems the best offer. I'm not planning on even connecting it to my router, basically i'll just use it for recording in protools and sample editing in wavelab, and just keep using my windows pc for internet, flics, games... And a mac mostly for reliability, even though a similarly priced pc may be much faster. I know the g4 with 1Gb of ram can easily handle 32 tracks in 24/96 with over 16 plugins loaded, and that's the maximum I plan on doing atm.

Tnx, i know WaveLab does .snd. I don't know, I've taken a close look at the PB and it doesn't even have a lock, just clicks shut. Mac seems nice as even an old G3 will let me run Pro Tools with 32 tracks, but then again I'm unsure which is the minimum spec for fluent editing.

Tnx for the replies. The dell is a bit pricey, acer looks nice. We sell a Packard Bell at my work that's only € 1299 for a Centrino 1.7Ghz and 1024 mb of RAM, why is it like €300 cheaper then any alternative? I'm staying the fuck away from pb anyway but the price tag seems strange. The MAIN reason i need a laptop is so I can record into Protools in the studio and then track at home. Another thing: I also want to use it to edit MPC samples (.snd format) in wavelab from a CF card. Will a Mac be able to load and save FAT files?

Sup, I'm looking for a new notebook, to be used for recording in Pro Tools (through a digi001/002rack) and sample editing in Wavelab. I'm looking to buy an ultraportable model as I would like to have some battery life/portability. What I really need: 802.11G, firewire, PCMCIA, prefer 1Gb of RAM. What would be cool, though not a necessity: DVD-RW, decent vga card, fast harddisk (but can't eat up my cells), Bluetooth. I've been looking at the Acer 3004WLMiB, Apple G4 12" (not sure about apple though with the cpu change) and the Sony Vaio series although I'm not that loaded.

None of the softs mentioned sample right? Anyway you can sample easily, even in windows sound recorder.

Man just go buy two crates of records and sample! It'll do more for your music than any piece of software.

There's no 7-step guide to this really... Just start on your own, then compare to what you like. Anytime you hear a song, whether it's your genre or not, try to understand the measures used, hi-hat placement, type of bassline...whatever. Just dissect the song into every single instrument/percussion thingy, try to understand the song as a whole, meaning intro, hook, verse, bridge and make your own. Sample a single loop, the try to make basslines, breakdowns, verses all from this one sample (cut into stabs, LP filters (!)...) Because you already know how to play guiter this should be easy to you, pass the knowledge you got from there to other instruments. Song structure really is an important thing. Ableton is great to experiment with this, just make your parts and blend them on the fly with it. Gear won't do shit for ya, so find the piece you like the best, be it a computer with reason/logic/live, an mpc, an mv8000 or the crappy boss sampler madlib uses, find what works for ya, make it your own and STICK TO IT unless necessary. [rant] People always upgrading their gear has led to some of the worst turns in music ever! When blues got electric guitars it ruined the fun, when soul musicians switched from real drums and rhodes/moog to drummachines and synths (Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers, Grover Washington Jr. ...), when hiphop changed from sp1200s/mpc's and s950 to computers... You get the point [/rant]

CO-SIGN that!! All of DITC (well without Fat Joe) + ROC RAIDA! That was sick... With Grazz's tt big band coming in second.

This is something that comes with a Access Virus, but most of the stuff applies to all analog synths. The people over at vintagesynth are also very helpful, they used to have an enormous guide there, but it's mysteriously vanished last week (as has all of the FAQ section). Access Virus

Wears out your records three times as fast :s

Indeed, being 5.1 it's more of a multimedia oriented card. Look for something that has ASIO drivers, M-Audio 2496 for example.

Just got an Alesis 3630 for the studio, very cheap, nice sounding. At home i use a DBX 1BX-DS. None of the two are Avalon quality, but they do the job.

Aye no other comments then...?

If you burn them to a cd-r and send them to your self (not regular mail, the type where you have to sign a receipt) and DON'T open the envelope, there's a proof that you owned these beats at the date they were posted. Lots of people do this, it only protects you up to a certain level (you might have sold another cd-r and the rights to the music), but this way you have the intellectual copyright to those beats.

Yea it's in Africa Thanks mate