Need a laptop recommendation for supporting live audio production

Post #424,103 by drook 6/8/18 2:31:29 PM 6/8/18 2:31:29 PM Reply	Need a laptop recommendation for supporting live audio production My middle daughter has been running sound for all her high-school's productions for the past year. The teacher who oversees it is writing her a recommendation for an internship with a company that does sound for concerts. Her current Chromebook is getting a bit long in the tooth, and she's asking for something nicer this Christmas. (Planting the seed early ... good planning.) She wants something that she'll be able to install and run software that's used for that type of work. I've got no idea what people are using these days. Anyone current with this stuff? -- Drew
Post #424,108 by Another Scott 6/8/18 3:15:19 PM 6/8/18 3:15:19 PM Reply	Maybe look around B&H? Just to get an idea. They sell to the pros. It might be a good starting place, then you know what you're giving up as you move down in price. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/browse/Computer-Audio/ci/12157/N/4294550101 The requirements for https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1386334-REG/ableton_88177_live_10_suite_educational.html don't seem too onerous (64-bit CPU, iOS 10.11.6+ or Winders 7, 8, 10, i5 or better, 4GB RAM, etc.). Educational discount, also too. HTH a little. Cheers, Scott.
Post #424,111 by drook 6/8/18 3:50:53 PM 6/8/18 3:50:53 PM Reply	Well, that confirms my suspicion This is going to be expensive enough that I'll want the company she'll be interning with to tell me the specific package. No point in dropping a couple bills to spend a year learning the wrong system. -- Drew
Post #424,133 by malraux 6/8/18 9:44:12 PM 6/8/18 9:44:12 PM Reply	It might matter what the company with the internship is using We do video production as part of our company's business, and we're exclusively Apple here - audio production as well, which (with proper external hardware) is very similar to live audio production. But I know that people use software like Ableton on PCs for work like that too. If she's using a DAW like Logic Pro or Ableton the laptop will need to be beefy so she doesn't get the dreaded system overload alerts, unless she bounces individual tracks inline, but even then you want enough cores and memory to do all of the effects and mixing in realtime. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

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