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May 26, 2007 at 10:28 am #540899

bronzfiddla
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Hey everyone, im looking at buying a new computer for my home studio. I will be buying an Asio multimix 8 channel mixer/soundcard. I also have a yamaha MIDI keyboard. Does anyone know the sort of specidic requirements i need to run programs such as logic and reason at as faster rate as i can. I produce and write funky house and detroit techno. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know

Thanks

Tim

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May 26, 2007 at 10:28 am #622827

bronzfiddla
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Hey everyone, im looking at buying a new computer for my home studio. I will be buying an Asio multimix 8 channel mixer/soundcard. I also have a yamaha MIDI keyboard. Does anyone know the sort of specidic requirements i need to run programs such as logic and reason at as faster rate as i can. I produce and write funky house and detroit techno. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know

Thanks

Tim

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May 27, 2007 at 5:24 pm #622972

coojuice
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Reason 3 requirements:

Windows:

* PC with 300 MHz or faster Pentium compatible processor
* 128 MB of RAM or more
* CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
* Windows 2000, Windows XP (or later)
* 800×600 display (or better)
* 16-bit Windows compatible audio card, preferably with an ASIO or DirectX driver.

Mac:

* Power Macintosh G3, G4 or G5 processor (or better)
* 128 MB of RAM or more
* CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
* Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
* 800×600 display (or better).

Logic requirements:

* Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo; Intel Core Duo, PowerPC G5, or dual PowerPC G4 processor recommended
* Logic Node applications require PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
* 512MB of RAM
* Mac OS X v10.4.3 or later for PowerPC-based systems; Mac OS X v10.4.4 or later for Intel-based systems
* QuickTime 7.0.3 or later
* 8GB of available hard drive space
* DVD drive for software installation
* Available USB port for XSKey (copy protection)
* Low-latency multi-I/O audio hardware and MIDI interface recommended

Hope this helps;)

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May 28, 2007 at 1:13 am #623020

raven
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As tobacco_slammers mentioned you need a Mac for logic. I can’t help in this case. But the requirements tobacco_slammers listed won’t make you happy. These are the minimal requirements to >run< these programs, but not to >work< with them. You need much more performance.

If you haven’t already bought logic and you want to buy a PC I can help you. Just tell it… and how much you want to spend? I built a new PC one month ago and spent a lot of time in comparing components.

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May 28, 2007 at 12:58 pm #623063

bronzfiddla
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Im pretty sure u can run logic on windows, ive had it on my laptop before. Im willing to spend up to about £750 for a computer, possibly custom built and with a screen. If u can help me, i would appreciate it!

Audio Twiddla

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May 28, 2007 at 8:43 pm #623122

anisina
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You can no longer run the last two versions of Logic on a PC. The support for PC was brought to an end with Logic 6 onwards, because Apple Corp. bought eMagic, and quite a few people turned away from Logic because of Apple’s attempt to boost Mac sales. The last Logic for PC was Logic 5.5.

For PC, go with Cubase (or Nuendo) or Sonar, though only if you require the things that Logic can do.

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May 28, 2007 at 8:49 pm #623123

bronzfiddla
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that sucks, i really need the rhodes vst for logic though, the e88 or somethin like that, would it not be worth using 5.5? do u know of any good rhodes vst’s for cubase? because the e88 for logic is the best one i have used!!

Audio Twiddla

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June 1, 2007 at 10:41 pm #623684

daws
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you want to have as much memory (ram) as you can, also a lot of hard drive space if you are planning to keep music on your computer. a fast CPU will also boost performance levels.

the main thing you want is ram nd cpu, 1GB of ram should do the trick, and try to get a cpu of at least 2GHz. you should be able to get away with the hard drive provided

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June 17, 2007 at 3:27 pm #625709

raven
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Sorry that I’m answering so late. But my graphic chip(fan) died shortly after my reply and than I had to wait untill the new was delivered and than had alot to work.
But don’t be scared the PC I built one month ago was for my sister but also to make music with and it still works fine. I have to save money first. Only my own old one needed a new graphic card.

If you don’t want to build the PC for yourself, I recommend to find a store that has all the wanted parts and that will build it for you. I don’t think there is a complete PC that has all you wants and is as cheap as the built one.

I think it’s most important to have a good motherboard that has no bugs and a good BIOS with many possible settings. You have to decide if you want AMD or Intel. I chose AMD because an AMD CPU that costs as much as an Intel CPU has faster audio processing –> http://hardware.thgweb.de/charts/prozessoren.html

A high end AMD motherboard costs about 150 Euro and an Intel ca. 300 Euro. Intel mainboards with P965 (100 – 150 Euro) chipset seem to have bugs (e.g. on/off bug) and other issues.

That’s why I recommend the nvidia nforce 590sli chipset for socket AM2. If you use SLI-certified memory you will have an automatic performance increase of 25%. You should take 2GB or more RAM (2 * 1GB because of Dualchannel). I chose the Gigabyte GA-M59sli-S5, because it has the best BIOS imo, I found no bad experieces about it in www and it’s passiv cooled(no fan noises).

Because of your MIDI-Keyboard and low latencies: you should buy a multicore CPU, you shouldn’t take nforce4 or 3 chipset (latency issues).

Audio performance depents mostly on a high CPU-frequency, not on the L2 cache size or something else like other applications do.

It must have been about 5 years ago since logic 5.5 was released and I worked with it. I wouldn’t use such an old software only because of a plugin. I’m sure you will find a better newer vsti.

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September 9, 2007 at 12:16 pm #633338

DjStevieG
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Have a look at red submarine.
The dudes there make em to spec.
Cost a fair bit more than £750 though but u could just buy the parts u need.

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February 19, 2008 at 1:03 am #643652

J035u5
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[quote quote="bronzfiddla":33zdz3fw]that sucks, i really need the rhodes vst for logic though, the e88 or somethin like that, would it not be worth using 5.5? do u know of any good rhodes vst’s for cubase? because the e88 for logic is the best one i have used!!

Audio Twiddla [/quote:33zdz3fw]
VST is compatible with all sorts of DAWs (that includes cubase). I suggest you really don’t need any one virtual instrument that much anyway

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