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Hi guys,

Apologies if this has been asked a thousand times. Im looking to upgrade to a MBP but can only afford the basic model (dual core i5, 4gb ram) will this be adequate to produce using ableton live 8? Cheers

Yes 3 instances of it.

3 instances of Live? What about stacking up midi tracks? Will it handle loads.

I've got a basic mac pro (2012 - 13 inch model) and it's running Ableton better than my windows laptops ever did. I'm using tons of plugins and about 25-30 tracks of midi and audio sometimes. Never stutters, even when Ableton is renowned for shit CPU usage.

I don't think anyone has ever successfully finished any music on a Macbook Pro, so no, definitely not.

It will handle anything that would be considered sensible when it comes to producing music.
The system won't be holding you back in any way.

VirtualMark wrote:I don't think anyone has ever successfully finished any music on a Macbook Pro, so no, definitely not.

this is true

I bought one in January i5 4gig.

Yeh it runs good. - better than my quad 6600 hackintosh which never really ran out of grunt either.

Also you can put 16gig of ram in if you want.

buy it, then smash it

you could get a windows laptop with much better specs for half the price and then spend the money you save on red stripe to reach the same level of hip

Mason wrote:you could get a windows laptop with much better specs for half the price and then spend the money you save on red stripe to reach the same level of hip

Mason wrote: red stripe

lmfao.

Perej wrote:I've got a basic mac pro (2012 - 13 inch model) and it's running Ableton better than my windows laptops ever did. I'm using tons of plugins and about 25-30 tracks of midi and audio sometimes. Never stutters, even when Ableton is renowned for shit CPU usage.

Anecdotal.

I'm pretty confident that your Mac setup won't be identical in every way to your PC setup. The only fair way is to set a project up with the exact same settings and do it under test conditions.

I'm judging by the past tense phrasing "better than my windows laptop ever did" that your Macbook Pro is newer than your Windows laptop? This would probably mean that it has faster newer hardware? You didn't provide any details of CPU, RAM etc, sorry but your logic is flawed.

VirtualMark wrote:You didn't provide any details of CPU, RAM etc, sorry but your logic is flawed.

But he's using Ableton not Logic