New user with some issues...

emptysea wrote:First off, those benchmarks were done when the SDD Macbook Airs first came out and were being compared to then current Macbook Pros.

So why are you quoting it as though it is current and relevant information when it is quite obviously outdated?

Even in those irrelevant speed tests, the 11" (which you were endorsing) is not in any way a match for the basic 13" MBP. Even a child could see that 106 is a higher number than 85. Duh.

a swift kick to the nutts for this thread.

/over.

jimmie wrote:

emptysea wrote:

jimmie wrote:Well, I'll have to get one then emptysea, to sequence my hardware synths, keyboards, drum machines and samplers.

Oh... it doesn't do midi sequencing does it.

Maschine does do MIDI sequencing. Maschine can sequence multiple hardware just fine (up to 16 MIDI channels currently) and recognizes multiple MIDI ports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svnhwf7i3m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFBao4mbDkU

1. midi data is serial
2. ... therefore timing is effected using one cable and over multiple channels (this can most definitely can be heard, e.g when layering up arpeggios from multiple hardware synths over a beat from the mpc whilst syncing up a TR808)
3. mpc has four dedicated midi out ports
4. PC midi timing on current OS's is shocking, no matter how streamlined you make
5. no need for five. Nuff said.

+1