Re: Minimum spec PC for Abelton Live

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

mark francombe schrieb:
> The question is simply...
> IF he has has an external sound card (I think its a NI AudioControl 1)...
> AND he is using external disks for (therofore not needing a really 
> HUGE hd)...
> What is the minimum spec PC I would need to go for for a lap-top for 
> pretty standard Abelton Live use. (By that I mean playing loops, 
> synths and effects... but not too much recording of live instruments I 
> imagine)
> I guerss Im talking memory AND CPU?
The stuff here http://moinlabs.bandcamp.com/album/weird-specialist was 
done on an old Pentium M (2GHz) and 1GB of RAM. My current €300 netbook 
outperforms that machine of old...of course, it was Live 4 or 5 running 
back then, and plugins selected to be CPU/memory efficient...

So as usual: "using ableton live" is rather wide a field. But if you 
know how to optimize a setup for performance, are able to play with high 
latencies and don't believe you need the latest gimmick for everything 
to make art, then really, you don't need that much power.
DPC latency however, that is what you need to be looking at, as that can 
be a showstopper...

Rainer

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