Using macbook pro + logic for live - what to consider
so i just received the macbook pro which I will use live with logic for playing back bounced audio tracks, audio instruments and live inputs + effects.
I want to avoid (if possible) an additional external drive in order to keep the setup simple.
I`m thinking of partitioning the internal drive into two parts and use one partition for the audio material.
Or is it maybe better to keep the whole drive as one partition (80GB)?
Any further suggestions? e.g. Which os do you think is more stable 4.6. or 4.7?
Hi. I use my MBP live for Ivory Grand piano sounds and occasional backing tracks with live piano. I suggest you set it all up and suck and see. You will quickly get an idea of what will and won't work. Set up a scenario where it is doing a fair bit more work than you anticipate it doing live, and then you will be confident of it doing what you want it to do.
Partioning a hard drive just means that the same single hard drive is trying to split it's attention to two places at once, and so will probably give worse performance. It is no real big deal to carry a small firewire drive these days. By the time you have plugged in MIDI interfaces and cable, an extra firewire cable will not make much difference. Samples stream much faster from an external drive. Audio should play back just fine from the internal hard drive.
I am using 10.4.7 and I don't seem to be having any problems so far, touch wood.
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