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Hey,

This specific question is very loosely about "recording", I guess. I need to know what to look for in a laptop audio-wise to play with Reason. My current (general-use) laptop won't even play back MIDI sound to install Reason. I just want to be able to fool around with ideas on the laptop, then bring the projects to my desktop. Controller input isn't even necessary.

Can anyone tell me what I should look for in a laptop, if I'm upgrading my current, just so that Reason will be usable? Any search I've done on MIDI and Laptops focuses on interfaces and input devices.

Thanks.

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anonymous Sat, 08/07/2010 - 14:54

Thank you. That seems to have done the trick, on my current laptop no less! Although, I'm now wondering if I ever actually tried to install Reason on it. It's working without choosing ASIO4all in the sound settings. It's possible I just assumed it wouldn't work because MIDI didn't work when I installed a copy of Sonar.
Either way, I'm working now. Thanks for your help.

Shadow_7 Sat, 08/07/2010 - 23:07

ASIO and a full duplex soundcard for starters. Something with decent capacities if you're doing realtime stuff. Lots of ram, decent cpu specs. A video card worth a darn to free up cpu clocks. Basically any gaming type machine with a decent soundcard should do. If you don't need realtime or a lot of effects, you can get by with much less.