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As portability and mobile technology become assumed requirements of daily living,
it’s no surprise that last year was coined “The Year of The
Laptop.” Given that, I decided it was prime time to get myself a new portable as the new core CPU for my studio.
So, you might be wondering, “Don’t I need a tower to run my studio efficiently? How will I make it work?”
First of
all, you don’t have to worry about connectability issues if you realize that
the FireWire and USB ports built into iBooks give you instant networking capability
to other components.
Connect Your iBook to External Drives and Interfaces
First of all, you don’t have to worry about connectability issues if you
realize that the USB and FireWire ports built into the iBook gives you instant
networking capability to other components. I use the FireWire ports on my studio
machine to connect to a couple rackmount FireWire external hard drives,
to my Apogee Trak
2 audio interface, and to all of my other studio machines. With FireWire, you
don’t even need a network hub. You can just daisy-chain them together and
every item connected will have access to the others along the daisy
chain.
I also use the USB ports on my studio machine to hook up to a Unitor 8 rackmount
MIDI interface, and also to my Logic Control
virtual mixing console.
The G4 iBooks
are great machines for doing audio work and can handle most of the high or
low-end apps currently out for Mac OS X.
Top that with the built-in ComboDrive (DVD readable and CD readable/writeable) and you can see that
this is the perfect machine for audioheads who want to compose, tweak and burn
from the same machine.
Plus, there are two sizes to choose from: the iBook with the 14” screen, or
the iBook with a 12” screen which is probably small enough to fit anywhere!
Great Portable Starter Studio Machine
The iBook is a great portable starter studio machine — if you’re just getting
into recording, mixing and playing with sound — but it also can be a serious
workhorse, so long as you don’t need to move up to a serious Pro Tools rig yet. In fact,
the iBook is a perfect engine to drive pretty much anything but apps
that require additional DSP (digital signal processing) cards.
So, if you’re ready to get a iBook now and starting engineering some serious
tracks in an all-in-one studio machine package, go ahead and select from the
options to the right. You’ll still need a USB or FireWire-connected
interface, and perhaps a keyboard controller and a mixing/control surface. Or,
you can just do it all in the machine.
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Mac Audiophiles
Read up on these Mac-using audioheads (featured
in the Interviews section) for insights on what they use and why.
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