new year, new sh%t.
wishlist for '07 time!
#1- new laptop.
MUST get a laptop this year. i've got 3 budgets worked out- ranging from moderately workable to strenuous- which will have me kitted out in the flyest portable power no later than march '07.
i'm looking for something dual core with a big drive and a lotta ram. i found this HP for just over a $G that has pretty much the stats i'm looking for.
i'm thinking i'd partition the drive (the hp's was around 120 gb) for a dual boot; use one boot for business stuff, email, web, movie watching and everyday whatever, and the other would strictly be for beats- that means no AIM, no Firefox, no resource hogging apps sitting in the ram and fingerf$cking the CPU. just FL Studio, Wavelab and the drivers for my external gear (usb midi/audio interface)
i'd want to get a pair of big external/portable drives too- somewhere in the 250-350gb range- for my downloaded music and movies and samples.
#2-bigger keyboard controller.
yeah i'm thinking in the 61-76 key range. something with semi-weighted hammer action keys, something with playability and real multioctave range.
#3-music theory and piano class.
man, as i've gone deeper into the pop aspect of production, it's one thing i've realized without a shadow of a doubt: the rodney jerkins and neptunes and jermaine dupris and everybody else that puts together bonafide r & b tracks can play. and they have the pop concept down, automatically audible. i wanna know how they do it.
#4-M-Audio Firewire 410/1814.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire1814-main.html
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire410-main.html
i don't think i'd need both. probably one 410 and maybe a lesser box for the laptop. see, i wanna upgrade to protools. i think it's best i start learning it now. the plan is to start making my beats directly on the laptop, and then track them into the desktop which would be running a DAW strictly. since most (if not all) studios are running protools, having native protools files to walk into the studio would be a really good look, plus knowing the system is fantastic; theoretically i won't have to employ too much in the way of engineers when it's time to really mix a beat. it's killing 2 birds with one stone.
if you didn't know already, m-audio runs protools m-powered, which for all intents and purposes is protools LE. i'm sure it will do everything i ask of it. and by the time i start turning over some real dividends with this stuff, i'll be able to afford a real LE (or better) system.
#5-17-19" LCD monitor for the desktop.
lol i need this so very bad.
i have a 19" CRT monitor at home, and it just dominates everything i sit it on. it's stupid. i hate it! i love the screen size but it's just way too big and heavy and space consuming. wow... breathing room on my desk... i wouldn't have to hold my keyboard on my desk!
wish me luck.
#1- new laptop.
MUST get a laptop this year. i've got 3 budgets worked out- ranging from moderately workable to strenuous- which will have me kitted out in the flyest portable power no later than march '07.
i'm looking for something dual core with a big drive and a lotta ram. i found this HP for just over a $G that has pretty much the stats i'm looking for.
i'm thinking i'd partition the drive (the hp's was around 120 gb) for a dual boot; use one boot for business stuff, email, web, movie watching and everyday whatever, and the other would strictly be for beats- that means no AIM, no Firefox, no resource hogging apps sitting in the ram and fingerf$cking the CPU. just FL Studio, Wavelab and the drivers for my external gear (usb midi/audio interface)
i'd want to get a pair of big external/portable drives too- somewhere in the 250-350gb range- for my downloaded music and movies and samples.
#2-bigger keyboard controller.
yeah i'm thinking in the 61-76 key range. something with semi-weighted hammer action keys, something with playability and real multioctave range.
#3-music theory and piano class.
man, as i've gone deeper into the pop aspect of production, it's one thing i've realized without a shadow of a doubt: the rodney jerkins and neptunes and jermaine dupris and everybody else that puts together bonafide r & b tracks can play. and they have the pop concept down, automatically audible. i wanna know how they do it.
#4-M-Audio Firewire 410/1814.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire1814-main.html
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWire410-main.html
i don't think i'd need both. probably one 410 and maybe a lesser box for the laptop. see, i wanna upgrade to protools. i think it's best i start learning it now. the plan is to start making my beats directly on the laptop, and then track them into the desktop which would be running a DAW strictly. since most (if not all) studios are running protools, having native protools files to walk into the studio would be a really good look, plus knowing the system is fantastic; theoretically i won't have to employ too much in the way of engineers when it's time to really mix a beat. it's killing 2 birds with one stone.
if you didn't know already, m-audio runs protools m-powered, which for all intents and purposes is protools LE. i'm sure it will do everything i ask of it. and by the time i start turning over some real dividends with this stuff, i'll be able to afford a real LE (or better) system.
#5-17-19" LCD monitor for the desktop.
lol i need this so very bad.
i have a 19" CRT monitor at home, and it just dominates everything i sit it on. it's stupid. i hate it! i love the screen size but it's just way too big and heavy and space consuming. wow... breathing room on my desk... i wouldn't have to hold my keyboard on my desk!
wish me luck.
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