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Cool, Dennis! I can add that I too was combining the laptop with outboard hardware, like you are planning to. I was running a TC Electronics FirworX MIDI Clock synced to Mobius and plugged my instrument sound directly into the TC. The TC was digitally connected to the laptop audio interface by an optical ADAT pipe. That was an awesome system for a "not so powerful" laptop. per On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Per ... that's exactly the kind of data I'm looking for ... I > figured Firewire was going to be my friend if I went the PC route > anyway and I probably won't be doing any serious effects chains in > that environment yet anyway (still using a lot of outboard hardware > for that as it is, adnd I what I do have in software is Mac-specific > ... :-( ...). > > Dennis > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >>> Any thoughts on minimum specs for a USED PC laptop to run Möbius as an >>> audio machine? Obviously, I can add RAM (but it means having a machine >>> to which RAM can be added) and put in a new larger hard drive. >> >> >> Yes. My first Mobius laptop was a ZEPTO centrino with a single core 2 >> GHz CPU (Intel P-M 755 2 MB Cache) and 1 GB ram. That machine worked >> perfectly well, crystal clear sound even when simultaneously >> manipulating eight parallel tracks or loops. I often made minute long >> stereo loops. It seems looping audio is pretty light on the processor. >> >> However, the ZEPTO could not handle everything when I started to build >> also sound design effect chains to play through. What happened then >> was that I got audio artifacts when playing through my most CPU heavy >> patches. >> >> For laptops I have only had good results with firewire (and card bus, >> PCMCIA) based audio interfaces. I have tried a couple of USB2 based >> interfaces but they did not deliver clear sound, so I took them back >> to the vendor. >> >> -- >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.boysen.se (Swedish) >> www.looproom.com (international) >> www.myspace.com/perboysen >> >> > > -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) www.myspace.com/perboysen