Hi Chris, Your Macbook will be fine to get started with Pro tools. However here are some things you'll want to know.
1. Pro Tools is not currently supported with Lion, so if you've got Lion, you'll need to go back to snow leopard for the time being. 2. I'd recommend getting an MBox 2 which is not a control surface but it's a USB high quality sound card so you'll plug your headphones into that. So you could use the mac for voiceover and the MBox for your recording and playback and actually you can have voiceover going through your MBox as well. I'd recommend picking one of those up on EBay, If you just buy Pro Tools 9 for 600 Bucks, You'll also need to buy some kind of audio as well, an MBox usually comes with the Pro Tools software. hth On 25 Jul 2011, at 21:10, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Fair enough, Ray, and if I came across that I thought my macbook couldn't do > this, I'm sorry as that was definitely not my intent. I'm actually not > honestly sure. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ray Foret Jr > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 3:58 PM > Subject: Re: [Bulk] Facing the Reality about my Mac > > Uh, just a second here. You can solve your problem another way. Sounds to > me like what you really need is what's called a control surface. I've heard > that the MBox is supposed to be pretty cheep nowadays. This audio interface > will allow you to do exactly what you want to do the way you want to do it; > and, besides, you may find it easier using Pro-Tools with a good control > surface anyhow. Don't jump off the cliff before you do a little research and > no for sure whether something will or will not work. Check out what you > really need to run Pro-Tools with respect both to hardware and software. I > don't own or use Pro-Tools myself; but, I'd really just take a step back and > do some objective research before coming to the conclusion you're Mac cannot > be manipulated to do what you need. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> Here is my question about ProTools. >> >> Really, is it worth my investment? Here's the thing... I have a mid 2010 >> white 13 inch Macbook. It's not a Pro, it's just stocked original white. My >> thing is, as you all probably know, these systems only have one external >> audio port. That one port serves as a line in, or! as a line out, depending >> on your settings in system preferences. This means Somehow I need to have a >> pair of headphones plugged in so I can monitor audio, especially when doing >> vocals. OK, no problem, boom, headphones're plugged in. Well, now I wanna >> plug in my mixer so I can get audio out of the mixer into the macbook. Well, >> crap! I can't! I already have something plugged into my only port. My >> headphones. OK, well, run the audio from the macbook out and into the board >> then monitor it with your headphones on the board, not on the macbook... >> well, that's all great in all, but how am I gonna send signal out the audio >> port on the macbook and send signal into! the port. You can't have it both >> ways. The port is either/or, not both. I honestly wonder, being I was >> going to go into audio production and am going back to school to go into >> that field, I'm very convinced maybe I made a mistake asking my church for >> the macbook. Maybe what I needed was either an IMac, or better yet, an MBP, >> not just an MB. This way I'd have two audio jacks. I know it's really hard >> without you all looking at my mixer to know if maybe we could set this up >> differently, plus this is getting a bit OT from Voiceover, so I don't wanna >> flood the list with this thread, nor highjack it, so I'm asking all further >> responses please come off list to me. My e-mail address is as follows: >> >> [email protected] >> >> alternatively, if that doesn't work, then try me at: >> >> [email protected] >> >> If you think it would be easier to chat me on Skype, that's fine, my contact >> is: >> >> twinklesfriend2007 >> >> I do use Facetime. >> >> You need to add: >> >> [email protected] >> >> I also do use google Talk with my above gmail address, though I'm hardly on >> there. >> >> I'm also available if anyone would like to discuss my future possibilities >> via phone, although I'd rather not give my number out publicly on list, but >> if you write me off list, I'll give it to ya. >> >> I just need to know where to proceed. I feel so bad that my priest, Fr. >> Steve, donated this thing to me, yet, I feel I'm just using the macbook kind >> of as a toy. It's time that I take things to the next level. I've played >> with voiceover a lot since April, I've obviously become very! proficient >> with the Mac, for what it's worth. I almost feel ready to make it my >> primary system. I just now need to know the next step. >> >> Obviously I've done a fair amount with Garage Band, but I've really not >> played much with Pro Tools. At least not enough to form an opinion. >> >> I'm also caught between that, Logic, or QBase. >> >> My best of me is saying ProTools, but I just wanna be sure, as if I invest >> several hundred dollars in this, I want to be certained that it really is >> worth my time to save up for it. >> >> I open myself to talk to anyone on this list or off that you may could refer >> me to, but, I almost wonder if it may be better to talk to someone who not >> only's used Protools, but has used it extensively, not in the old days of >> Outspoken, but in the now days of Voiceover. This way I truely can get my >> questions answered. I went with Ben bloomgren who's also on this list, to >> my local music store, and Ben will tell you the same thing here as he was >> standing right there with me... he and I went in the recording department, >> and talked to a guy who's name neither Ben nor I will reveal, for his >> protection, but, I had him turn on voiceover on the Mac they had in the >> room, and I tried looking at ProTools 9. This guy, I know he was doing >> this, as I am not a total. I have some usable vision, though not much... >> Every time that I would try moving around in ProTools to see how it behaved, >> he refused to let me and reached up to the control surface and turned down >> the master volume. I normally have balls, but this time, I said nothing. I >> was too hurt that he would treat Ben and I that way to do much of anything. >> I was totally in shock. This is why I'd rather speak to someone who >> actually knows what they're half way doing, that I truely could trust who >> would not try to purposefully lead me away from my dreams. >> >> My thing too is I cannot afford a Mac, not even the difference to take this >> one back and get a Pro. >> >> the only reason I have a Macbook is because Fr. Steve was so generous out of >> the goodness of his heart to fundraise through the church to get me one for >> school. It's about time I start really putting it to use and reaching for >> my long-term goal. >> >> Can any of you all help me with making the best choice? I also have a 10 >> channel Yamaha Mixer that ran me about 100 bucks, and a studioware Fantom >> powered condincer Samsung microphone with both 20DB gain as well as a low >> frequency pass filter, plus then my Yamaha keyboard. So, I just dont' >> know... do I have enough hardware to even think about getting protools? >> Then I just have a 40 dollar el cheapo pare of Plantronics headphones. Yeah, >> it's a full headset with microphone, but I don't use the mike as it's not >> good enough for studio quality. >> >> What do you all suggest? >> >> Chris. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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