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  1. The whole .mp3 thing is interesting. I mean each successive format has offered higher resolution, but with mp3 we seem to be taking a step backwards. Everyone here seems to care a lot about sound quality and they should. I know I do. But for some reason the lay person has obviously decided that mp3 is good enough for them. Anyways, hard drives are dirt cheap these days. I store everything in a lossless format. By the way is there any sites that offer lossless or even higher resolution downloads. There is obviously a demand for these types of download, but I heard of any.
  2. I was reading the forums on RME's website and I'm starting to even reconsider that option. Seems like a lot of people are having problems getting their products to work with the new Apple MacBook Pros. Anyways, with regards to latency I've read that some DAWs don't calculate it correctly. I don't know if Live is one of them. It shows the input latency and output latency separately and adds them together I guess. That's where I got the 20ms time from. I'm also using a seperate drive for my audio it is a G-Tech 200GB 7,200rpm drive. I have it connected to the sole firewire input on my computer. I'd like to get more mileage out of the Mini for now, but I'm not sure if that is possible. If I load two soft instruments into Live and have them play a simple midi track my CPU usage spikes to 25%. I'm looking to have up to 10 instantiations of soft synths, drums, etc. in my sets. Either way I probably have to buy a new laptop because I'm not hauling a CPU, monitor, keyboard, etc. around to gigs. Thanks for all or help and advice!
  3. I'll be using my newly acquired drumkat percussion pad to trigger synths, drum samples, etc. out of Ableton Live. Right now I'm using a Mac Mini that has a 1.5Ghz Core Duo processor with 2GB RAM and it is barely keeping up with basic sequencing. I'm also using the built-in audio and I can only get the latency down to 128 samples at an 80% CPU load. Live measures this as an overall latency of 20ms. No real surprise there and I don't expect to get super low latencies with this setup. Now, I'm looking to do live performance and need a setup with low latency and rock solid performance. I do plan on sticking with a Mac for a computer. I just don't know if I should do a laptop or a tower. A laptop would be the cheaper solution of the two. I just wanted to get some opinions because I can't afford to waste money on something that isn't going to work. Thanks!
  4. I just purchased a drumkat percussion controller and plan on using it for live performance. I also plan on using a laptop as my sound module. At first I planned on buying an Apogee Duet (solely for sound quality) and using my Emu MIDI to USB converter to get the MIDI into the computer. Now, I'm thinking that combination really isn't going to offer the responsiveness (low latency) that I need. I'm now looking at a RME Multiface with express 3/4 card. Does anyone here use that specific interface or a comparable PC card interface? Do PC card interfaces generally offer faster performance over firewire/USB? Any advice would be appreciated!
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