[pugdog]

I am getting ready to write in a PB into my new budget, and I'm wanting to claim one use as a portable recording studio for multi-track recording. How do the PBs work with Logic? Do they run pretty smoothly? Thanks

[flukewurm]

depends on what youre doing with it specifically.

in any case. be sure to get a gig of ram (or more), an external firewire HD and a firewire audio interface (i have a firewire 410) and you should be golden.

even with the 1.33ghz model you should be fine considering logics freeze function - will render an individual track and free up any software synths or effects that is holding your CPU down.

for simple multitrack recording any of the powerbooks will be more than enough. adding softsynths or lots of higher quality effects (especially reverbs) without freezing tracks - thats where you could get into trouble.

[Spheric Harlot]

What he said.

12" Powerbook 867MHz here.

28 tracks with some compressors and a little reverb on some == fine.

Open up Space designer and set to a ten-second reverb room - stut-tut-...-tut-tutut.

utter.

And Logic stopped.

Whoops.

Well, okay...I was just playing around...um...

-s*