"Well my rig's a little old but that don't mean she's slow"

[guitar man]

That line from an old Dave Dudley song kept running through my head this evening as I was working on an an audio project on the old G4
tonight. It's like driving a Cadillac compared to my old windows rig . :evilgrin:

[MilesColtrane]

1. The only time I have to touch a Windows machine is when my poor, dear mother asks me to "fix" hers.

Much sadness and frustration ensues.

(I've been drooling for a Mackie Onyx 1620i FireWire Mixer for a while now. It looks to be a great hybrid of a nice analog mixer and a DAW controller.

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Mackie-Onyx-1620i-FireWire-Mixer?sku=501233

Maybe in a couple of months...)

[guitar man]

2. That looks pretty sweet

I'm still using an old 24x8 yamaha analog board circa '95. I'm going to put that Onyx on the wish list, I've got a FW800 port and 2 FW400 ports so I bet it will fit right in :)

[onehandle]

3. A G4 is still a Hell of a CPU. Audio projects do just fine. nt

[guitar man]

4. indeeed

and this one has 2 cpu's 1.42ghz each, the last and fastest G4 they ever made...it's a hell of a freebie! :D

[klook]

5. Nice -- is that Logic you've got running? (n/t)

[guitar man]

6. Good eye!

Yes, logic 7.2, I'm just learning it, but so far I love it.

I upgraded the os to Leopard 10.5.8 and added a 320gb slave drive and she runs like a bat out of hell. Tonight I was working on mixing down a live performance I recorded to multitrack of a friend's band. 12 tracks at 24 bits , each 45 min long so I had 9 songs at once open, running plugins on 8 or 9 tracks, multiple plugins on some and it never even blinked, ran as smooth as butter the whole time.

That windows box I was using before would have choked and died trying to run all that :P

edit for iPhone typos

[klook]

7. Very cool

Logic is like 6 applications in one -- amazing capabilities. I occasionally lurk on LogicProHelp.com for tips and tricks.

Have fun!