Logic Macbook air Duet 2 ?

I am a bassist who wants to start recording music. I was thinking of doing it with a macbook air haswell i5 4go, logic pro x and the duet 2 from apogee digital. What do you think about this set up? How far could I go with this ? Thanks for your answers

Personally, I would not purchase an Air for any semi pro or pro Audio work. The benefits of the Air over a Macbook Pro are that it is lighter and smaller with longer battery life.... and therefore more portable but as the host for a DAW it is not ideally suited at all. Its lack of real internal and external expansion capabilities are for me, a serious limitation... and for roughly the same price, you will get a faster, more capable Macbook Pro though one that is not as light or portable (though the latter is somewhat debatable!)
I have a top of the range 2012 Air myself.. and I have found it just doesn't cut it as a host for a DAW, for the reasons I gave above about lack of internal and external expandability, given the cost and what I could have bought in terms of a MBP for roughly the same price. The Air is a great little portable netbook for email and web access etc.. on the road... but for running a DAW? No...
LPX and a Duet 2 are okay choices... though again, personally I would choose a Motu interface over a Duet 2 but thats just my personal preference having used several different Motu's over the last several years without any issues of note... and having found their driver support to be excellent compared to a lot of other company's offerings out there.

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I have a 2011 i7 macbook air - 7 months old. About a month ago I went to use the computer after allowing it to sleep and it was totally dead. Apple authorized repair center said the logic board failed and needed to be replaced. Fast forward a month and I finally get the machine back. It works fine for 6 hours, I put it to sleep, and soon as the screen went out, I hear a pop, fizzle, then the machine is dead again. The authorized repair center wants to replace the logic board again, which should get me up and running, but its not likley that that is the root CAUSE of the problem here, since it happened twice now. I suggested to them that perhaps the power adaptor, battery, or some other component is the issue and they don't think so. I'm located overseas, and every repair attempt takes 1 month b/c of parts (total joke if you're listening apple!!). My biggest concern is that they replace the logic board again, I'm out of commission for 2 months now, and it just fails again. Does anyone have any suggestions on the possible causes of this problem?
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I have logic board problems too. I have had a late 2010 mac book air for 2 and half years. Its been a great machine in general - although it did go back within the warranty period for the track pad
Now it has logic board failure - symptons are the sound going and the battery is dead and it is unable to charge which means every time you put the power lead on the computer thinks it is starting from scratche.
I have been quoted over £400 for the repair! Like the above post I do not believe that this part should fail - and if it does then it is a major design problem and Apple should be doing something for us. I just dont know where to start.
I have used macs for 14 years and owned eight along the way. Most have them have lasted many years with full functionality the record was my G3 imac which was still working after 13 years.
I really cant believe the situation I am in and rather think I have bought my last mac!
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I don't think that your flash memory files are unrecoverable. That's because the logic board of the MacBook Air hasn't got the flash memory soldered. However, I don't know if Apple will replace the logic board, "recycling" your flash memory, or if they will install a whole new logic board replacing the flash memory, although the first option makes more sense and it would be the normal option.
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You should really be fine with battery life, but the Air does get quite hot under stress. It will also have a lot less power than your i7 MBP so it really depends on how much CPU your typical projects use, expect just over half of your current CPU use to max out your air. On the other front, having an SSD means you will get pretty awesome streaming from your HDD, meaning that you probably won't ever be able to load too many audio tracks.
The only counter I see to that is that you'll be pretty short on HDD space if you plan to keep your Mac portable. (IE no external HDD) and no FireWire is an instant No-Buy for all us FireWire interface based producers. Of course you have your bigger MacBook to pass things onto. All in all it's a great buy for a sketch pad type machine to get ideas down on the go, but understand that for a few reasons (FireWire, processing power, uselessness for me on a desktop due to small screen and keys) I would always plan to pass the song up to your MBP when I get home as its a superior machine in everything but size.
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I recently purchased a maxed out 13" MacBook Air and very successfully running Logic 9 on it. I posted my summary on Gearslutz a little while ago, but I'll copy it here for your information:
Just thought I would give a short report of my experience using Logic Pro 9.1.3 on a MacBook Air (late 2010). It is the 13.3” 2.13GHz, 4Gb memory, 256Gb SSD model.
First of all, I am not intending to use it for any kind of audio recording. I’m not saying that the MBA couldn’t handle the task; it’s just that I have no need of it. I want to be able to sketch out ideas in a hotel room with minimal equipment (in other words, a laptop, a two octave keyboard, a pair of headphones and me).
First of all, I tried the Logic Pro Multicore Benchmarktest several times. It gives a solid 17 tracks, which I am very happy about. My previous laptop, a MacBook Pro 15” (mid 2009) 2.66GHz 4Gb, could only get 20/21. So doing the maths, I was only expecting about 16 from the MBA anyway.
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Logic looks good on the 1440 x 900 screen and even though the pixel density is much higher than on the 15” MacBook Pro screen, everything was still easy to read and use.
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I'm considering purchasing a MacBook Air, 13 inch i5 with 8gb RAM.
I'm just wondering if logic pro will be useable on this machine?
Does anyone have any experience with this?
My demands arent all that professional.

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Sorry, I could have made myself clearer. Even though my Macbook is out of warranty I still get Genius Bar support without charge. Book a session online at your local Apple store, front up to the Genius Bar and see what happens. Or just drop by and ask them if there's a support charge.
You may be able to just simply download Mavericks via the Mac App Store. See the Apple website for details on which Mac support Mavericks, you should be fine with a 2011 model.
But by all means do a backup first. Connect your WD drive to the last operating system it was connected to and Format the drive (warning: erases everything)
Then connect it to your Mac and you should be able to Format the Drive for the Mac using something like Disk Utility. Launchpad>Other>Disk Utility. the rest should be follow your nose from there. But before you do all this, consider creating partitions (individual sections on the hard drive) 1 for Time Machine, 2 for Audio samples, loops etc. 3 for "Other" and 4 for something we both haven't even thought of yet.
You should think about the capacity that each partition will need. For example it may be a good idea to allocate 250GB for Time Machine so you can have multiple backups. But you should probably should only backup data like files instead of Applications otherwise you'll run out of room because you're gonna need room for Audio which could fill half your drive or more. And that doesn't leave room for much else like Docs and receipts, photos and any other plans you have for world domination.
I know it my be getting confusing so see a Apple Genius, they really are nice people even if they do have piercings and tattoos.
Don't forget to check out Computer Music mag because you'll churn out the tunes and become rich and famous overnight...... (that was a lie)
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I'm planning on travelling for a decent length of time and would like to continue to do this on a laptop.
The weight and SSD of the macbook air are really appealing to me. I'm wondering if it will be able to perform the above tasks? I read some reviews of people using photoshop on a 2011 macbook air with no issues, and from what I understand, the cheapest 2012 macbook air 13' is faster then the ultimate macbook air of 2011?
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USB should be fine as far as I can see. Is there a firewire adaptor just in case?
I was planning on keeping an external drive, and if I wanted to edit any substantial amount of footage, transfer it from the external drive to the MBA hardrive then just edit it from there.
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squillo,
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