Hi Tim, all.
Because I already have pro tools hardware, including a fast external USB drive on
which I do all my production work, some of this is not relevant.
I cannot speak for the music people, but the first thing I was told in
radio production is never put pro tools itself and your production on the
same drive. therefore drive speed is not an issue the pro tools program
itself and the stuff it will be working on are not going to be on the same
hard drive.
second the need for a cd optical drive is critical. If the retina machines
do not have a cd optical drive then they are not options.
so if I understand the earlier suggestions, I will need to get a macbook
pro circle 2012 in order to insure the firewire 800 and obtain the 800 to
400 adapter for this to be workable?
If this machine will have any value to me for production, I must connect my
already existing several thousand dollar control surface.
If I am incorrect about the earlier model retina units and the cd optical
drive let me know.
I might compromise slightly on the firewire because I have perfectly
functional older mac for production in this studio. However I cannot
compromise on the cd drive for transferring things
between the several other pieces of professional production equipment
here.
Although I might have missed one, no one has addressed the pick up in
local apple store need, even if basically put together from
site information so i suppose this is doable.
Thanks all,
Karen
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013,
Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Much of what I suggest has already been mentioned but I'll chime in anyway.
• Due to speed and RAM on-board, I suggest you get one of the Retina Display
units. It will come with more RAM, usually 8 GB and with the SSD HD which is
considerably faster for doing the production work of Pro Tools.
• The external SuperDrive is a USB3 model which connects easily with the Retina
Display models and has very quick transfer speeds.
• The Thunderbolt to Firewire adaptor is available although you may need to
purchase a Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 as well as the 800/400 Firewire cable to
make your scenario work.
This would be a very quick machine with the likelihood of being useful longer
than the older models.
Just my opinion, of course.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-04-25, at 6:14 PM, Cameron Strife <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi. As previously stated, any of the mac book pros that are non retina
display models will have the superdrive on board.
Whether you're talking about the firewire 800 port or the Intel
Thunderbolt port, the digi 002 would work with both via a reasonably
priced adapter. (I believe mine cost me around $25US.)
If you're going to be using it for pt, be sure to get a solid state
hard drive, or, at least upgrade the stock drive to a 7200rpm drive.
(A hard drive upgrade is one of the options if you order from the
online apple store for example.)
Cameron.
On 4/25/13, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Only the retina model Macbook pros, and all Macbook airs do not have optical
drives. You can get a non retina 2012 Macbook pro and it will have an
optical drive and firewire 800 which is backwards compatible with firewire
400.
hth
Ricardo Walker
[email protected]
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi folks,
Granted I could ask this on the pro tools list too.
Still I really enjoyed the wisdom Anita got when she was putting hers
together, and I have some of the same goals.
Let me ask the more pro-tools like question first however.
My desire will be a laptop. I want to put things together much the way
people guided Anita to doing, being sure I still has a cd optical drive
being very very sure I can still have firewire 400 access. I use a digi
002, and want absolutely to connect this device to the machine. I think
there is still an adapter for this if needful.
Now, my goal would be if I can to put what I want together, but pick it up
in store, the apple store here in Toronto where I intend taking advantage
of the in store training apple provides.
I want to support this effort with my business.
Assuming I can actually finance the machine in the first place smiles, can
I
1, still find a laptop with the sort of firewire connection required for
the digi 002? That one is for those on list here who can answer that.
2, if I follow the steps in the other thread choosing the size and other
pieces I desire can I indeed place the order either on the phone, on
line, or in a store with the item going to a store for pick up?
I imagine this will be a unit or so back, which is perfectly okay.
My registered copy of pro-tools goes back a bit. it is critical that I
can connect the digi if this is impossible, then I will either wait to get
the new mac, or get one still with things like the cd optical drive and
be sure I can connect other aspects of production to that machine.
I know I will be using the full sized keyboard I have with this older mac
anyway, so I can type normally lol.
I have an older mac here already that I use for production now.
I know that seems confusing, but trust me lol.
Let me stop here, as I am wanting to be very firm about what I do not wish
to negotiate on smiles.
Thanks,
Karen
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