Laptop help with acid and soundforge -ACID Product Family

Subject:Laptop help with acid and soundforge Posted by: Darklight20 Date:10/30/2001 9:00:11 PM I'm planning on buying a laptop to do my music on because i find it most excessible and it gives me the freedom to move around more. I was wondering what to get and what sound card to get. Any suggestions?
Subject:RE: Laptop help with acid and soundforge Reply by: BPB Date:10/31/2001 12:44:41 AM Hey Darklight20 I used an old pentium 1 300mhz for years with ACID Rock 2.0 using a ROLAND UA-30 USB external box for in/out. It worked pretty darn good for an antique. Just about any of the new laptops out there will kick with ACID and Sound Forge. To go first class get any 1ghz machine with a firewire port and CDWR ..MOTU has some great firewire multi channel gear and Glyph as well as a couple other company's have some killer external hard disks. This would be a primo mobile pro recording setup. To save some dough get the fastest processor you can afford and go with any of the new USB interfaces (I would avoid using any internal sound cards for laptop audio as they are extremely noisy due to there proximity to the CPU.. don't know about pcmcia slot stuff as i never used one) and just use your internal HD for audio..it will work fine for ACID and SOUND FORGE, though it would bog down some with multi track audio..VEGAS LE would be a nice addition to this setup as it would share all the same Direct X plugins and give you some multi track capabilities that you won't get in the other programs. hope this helps..i'm getting that jones to buy a new laptop now so I better stop all the best Bryan

Hey Darklight20
I used an old pentium 1 300mhz for years with ACID Rock 2.0 using a ROLAND UA-30 USB external box for in/out. It worked pretty darn good for an antique. Just about any of the new laptops out there will kick with ACID and Sound Forge. To go first class get any 1ghz machine with a firewire port and CDWR ..MOTU has some great firewire multi channel gear and Glyph as well as a couple other company's have some killer external hard disks. This would be a primo mobile pro recording setup.

To save some dough get the fastest processor you can afford and go with any of the new USB interfaces (I would avoid using any internal sound cards for laptop audio as they are extremely noisy due to there proximity to the CPU.. don't know about pcmcia slot stuff as i never used one) and just use your internal HD for audio..it will work fine for ACID and SOUND FORGE, though it would bog down some with multi track audio..VEGAS LE would be a nice addition to this setup as it would share all the same Direct X plugins and give you some multi track capabilities that you won't get in the other programs.
hope this helps..i'm getting that jones to buy a new laptop now so I better stop
all the best
Bryan