I just got the M-Audio Firewire Solo box today and it works great on my desktop but on my laptop while the laptop is plugged in it gives off this noise/static. I think it might be a ground loop isolation problem and i have a ground loop isolator from Radioshack but its for RCA connections. I'm thinking I might need a power conditioner. Any ideas?

I,m thinking of using a trigger pad and macbook laptop, and I,II need to connect the laptop to the PA. The only audio out is a 3.5mm stereo socket on the macbook(I havent actually bought the laptop yet, but I think that is the case) What is the best way to connect to the stage box? I will need to use two channels on the stage box for stereo mix.
thanks.

I'm looking to purchase a laptop for a mobile recording rig and to use for my home editing, tracking, and mixing. What is the best way of sending the audio out of the laptop? I may decide to route the signal back into a mixer or straight to the monitors. Is there an external sound card I could buy for the laptop that will have all the great connections going out.

Hi Guys,

I have an HP Pavilion laptop right now. I checked in the device manager under IEEE Bus Host Controller and it says Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller .

Could I try and use this one year old AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ML-2, 1.79 Ghz, 1 GB RAM laptop to do some basic audio recording using my PreSonus Firebox as the interface?

need help finding the right computer? these tips should help

Posted ADK audio

HI,
you do not want the XPC laptop or a dell.

do a search on this forum for laptop. there are several good threads.

but here is the basics

Issues with the majority of new laptops.

whats a good laptop for under 3000
that i'll uses for a DAW plus movies and games

I have been reading up on laptops for a while now... and have started to become a little frustrated. I am trying to find the perfect laptop to use in a live performance situation (ie, software looping/effects/virtual instruments) and some recording. I currently have a Firepod and usually use Cubase LE and Reason 3.0 for my recording setup (windows XP based).

I just made the plunge into firewire recording, just ordered a 16 channel firewire mixer. I am really nervous about the latency issue, I had a standalone unit which does not have that problem. How do I go about connecting a external firewire hard drive and the interface together on a laptop? Most recommend an external drive for recording.

Whats up guys,

I'm currently in the market for a laptop to run Cubase SX, Reason 3.0, Ableton Live, and SMAARTLive 5 for music creation and live audio work.
Since I do audio work on a cruise ship, I unfortunatly can't lug around a desktop.

I was wondering if anyone has had success or trouble multitracking onto laptops...

I'm afraid if I go out and grad a pretty nifty laptop that I will suffer horrible latency and problems actually mixing the music...(laggy / horrible performance)

I'm thinking a 2.0+ghz core 2 duo
2 gigs of ram

And can I record directly onto an external hd? too much latency?