Re: looping with a netbook

[Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

Mech,

I'm running 10.6.3 ... I had to do 2 clean installs to get it right
(complete HD reformats, user error, not the hardware. Follow
instructions first, before improvising! lol), but I've had it running
flawlessly for about three months now; performing and recording, even
used it on the 10" as a prime travel machine recently (had to do an
"on-the-fly" Android G1 Google phone tether at one point, making it
truly mobile!). The Dell forums for the Hackintosh are EXTREMELY
supportive and the best place to start for doing this.

At this point, it's still cheaper than buying dedicated looping
hardware and I'm able to create some highly customized delays,
filters, and synths with bidule and KORE Player, and STILL be able to
run SuperLooper (which I'm using more than Mobius of late). While I
still do the majority of my looping with the DD-20's, by the end of
summer I suspect I will have shifted over to more software (part of
that is stylistic, as I am in a phase of using more field recordings
and being able to pull together a library of sounds is much easier in
bidule).

Best,

Dennis

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> At 10:58 PM -0600 6/6/10, Dennis Moser wrote:
>>
>> I have, for the past 8 or so months been working with two Dell Mini
>> Netbooks: a 9" and a 10", which have been hacked and are running Snow
>> Leopard/Mac OS X. SooperLooper and Mobius both work, I use Kore
>> Player,  and I'm using bidule. Granted, I record off of the mixer to a
>> TASCAM DR100, but bidule would also let me record if I chose to do so.
>> I master in Reaper later on a Mac G5.
>>
>> If done right, the Dell Mini or the Lenovo equivalent can do quite a
>> good job for this kind of thing. And it's still less money than buying
>> a new "official" Mac. But you do have to think about it and work it
>> out.
>
> Dennis beat me to this same conclusion....  ;)
>
> I was just about to make a similar recommendation: do a quick 
>google-search
> on "hackintosh".  There are several online reviews/tutorials, and quite a
> number of people running OSX on their Netbooks.
>
> I'm preparing to blast my wife's HP Mini 1000 netbook and install 10.6 on
> there myself.  I hear from a few people that it works very nicely.  It's
> been a while since I did a comparison (circa ~Win2k/XP) but I've always
> found that almost *any* other OS makes better use of the Intel chip's
> horsepower than Windows.  That's why I spent most of the 90's nuking my 
>PC's
> and installing Linux or BeOS.  As I said, I haven't checked for a while, 
>but
> I'd bet that it's still the case. If so, OSX should run more efficiently 
>on
> a Netbook than its pre-installed OS.
>
> However, there was a previous question that asked about running Live in 
>Wine
> under Linux.  While Linux should be more robust overall, I believe the 
>Wine
> libraries essentially load a virtual Wiindows machine.  So you're kind of
> running a computer inside a computer. Not very efficient, I don't 
>believe,
> and I wouldn't recommend it, since Wine would probably eat up any
> performance gains you'd get from Linux.  However, take that with a grain 
>of
> salt, since I haven't actually played with Wine since its alpha releases.
>
> And Dennis, what version of OSX are you running on your Netbooks? I'd 
>heard
> that there was no problem through 10.6.2, but that there were some 
>issues if
> you moved up to the latest 10.6.3.
>
> Thanks!
>
>        --m.
>
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