[RWP] getting a mac for reaper what's the deal??

[Scott Chesworth]

Yup, no doubt that the knowledge that those chaps designing purpose
built DAWs have wracked up is valuable man. I haven't owned a purpose
built and used that day in day out yet, but I've tracked in studios
running machines that were purpose built from two different venders
and they were both solid as a rock. In this case though, where build
quality was the first thing that sprung to mind, you'll probably pick
up on why I recommended what I recommended from your time tutoring.

BTW, I've been keeping an eye on the DPC latency of that Boot Camped
Macbook Pro I posted about a few days ago using the tool you
recommended. Seems to be running somewhere around 80 to 100. Could be
worse, but it could be better too. Haven't found time to read up on it
and see if there's anything I can tweak to get that lower yet, so if
you know of a good starting place, feel free to lay it on me.

On 5/15/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Scot, you can read a lot about dpc latencies on the net, a great machine
> with lots of power will be a dog with a daw if processes are demanding
> too much time in the kernel, and a lesser well tuned machine with the
> right parts and software will run circles around this.
>
> Don't mean to sound like a know it all, but I've been doing this lots of
> years, and been there and done that, and went through the torture with
> my students.
>
> That high dpc latency is what kills more windows machines for daw work.
>
> YOu want 30 m us or less Jim's machines get in the single digits or
> lower double digits, your usual windows machine is usually about 250 or
> 300, you can do things on some motherboards like turn of high precission
> event timer and get lower dpc, but it's much more than that.
>
> these daw vendors know what to tweak and they keep up with all the
> motherboard revissions, and it's something even experienced pc builders
> don't often know about.
>
> I went through it with a custom shop,
> several times, them when I got my first purpose built daw, which didn't
> cost really anymore than the shop machine it was like going from a buggy
> airplane that sort of work to a rocket ship which could go off planet
> without getting out of 2nd gear.
>
> I did 100 plus tracks in xp without having to freeze tracks, it made me
> smile when these guys over on hrs were talking about 30 tracks being a
> heavy load for their imacs,
>
> windows can be a real piece of crap, but with the right stuff and
> properly configured it's obscenely powerful.
> that's the beauty and the other side of windows people don't realize,
> our hardware choices allow us to pick beter not just bargain, and the os
> allows to tweak in ways the mac can't easily be done.
>
> But with all that, the mac still has many things to drool over, if we
> weren't blind and didn't have to take thing on an accessibility and
> useability first option, the world would be our oister.
>
> but that's just the way it is out west.
>
>
>
> On 5/15/2014 12:18 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> Ah, gotcha. Used to be the case, but not so much nowadays is the answer to
>> that.
>>
>> That's a pretty powerful machine you're running there already, so I
>> guess the first thing to do is ask what isn't working out with the
>> current setup?
>>
>> On 5/15/14, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just thought the hardware would be better.
>>>
>>> Does any one have recommendations for good laptops to run reaper on kind
>>> regards trey.
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