Hi Jim,
I use WinMe on a toshiba satellite 2800-400 PD runs fine except for the strange edit lock that seems to happen on windows machines.. (just close the patch and reopen it to allow editing again...) I use a midiman usb 2x2 midisport box for midi, although the timing isn't great (more windows than the usb I think) it's useable with a bit of tweaking... As for soundcards.. my advice is just to use your onboard card fo the time being cos it will pretty much gurantee compatibility with pd and wont hog any extra cpu time.. Externals.... theres the wami box, the digigram pocket and the almost mythical (here in UK anyway) hammerfall laptopcard... I've heard bad stuff about all of them so I'd suggest getting a trial run (return offer on the hardware e.t.c.) before you commit..There a new motu firewire unit thats sposed to be god,but i haven't got firewire so... anyway.. i hope this helps..I've done quite a few performances, just using the phones socket, and to be honest on an average PA in an average room you don't notice the quality level at all.
oh and as far as video cards go .. most newish laptops come with savage video cards (OK) ATI cards (OK again) or NVIDIA geforce (brilliant), they all have decent opengl drivers i think although the nvidia card is kinda geared towards T&L systems like DX..
Tom
http://www.nullpointer.co.uk http://www.dividebyzero.org http://www.orphanrecords.co.uk ________________________________________________________ C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\REM [Header] C:> C:>PATH=C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;\C:jdk1.2.2\bin ________________________________________________________
(all suffixes enabled)
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Ruxton cinetron@passport.ca To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Date: 22 October 2001 21:23 Subject: [PD] PD on a laptop??
I'm still what you'd consider a newbie with PD but I did my first performance using PD and know I want to continue exploring it. One thing I discovered however is it is a hassle lugging around my desktop PC to run
PD.
I'm considering buying a laptop to make my life easier. I have a couple of questions around this and was wondering if anyone can help out. Right now I am running PD on Win98. Most new laptops come with Windows Millenium or Windows XP . Does anyone have experience running PD under
these
operating systems? Should I just load Linux onto the laptop with the other resident operating system and use that? Does anyone have a recommendation for a good soundcard that would connect to a laptop? I guess this would be USB. I use MIDI so the soundcard would have to have MIDI ports. I haven't yet but if I decide to output video using GEM is there a recommended laptop video card? Finally if anyone can recommend a specific model/ configuration they use I would appreciate hearing about it. The other thing I'm considering is keeping the desktop and getting a flat screen. This would help a lot although the laptop would be more convenient. Thanks for any suggestions/advice! Jim