I am a hobby musician that have way too little time for making music. I want to use the time commuting on the bus too, so I have been reading a lot of music production books and watched a lot of tutorials lately. I have done this so much that I am sure that theoretical knowledge is not the bottleneck of my production - I need to practice, playing around actually making music.
I have tried using my ol' OP-1 and it is quite nice, but that is unfortunately another complicated piece of equipment that I need to practice a lot to master... I realize more and more that I must cut down on my equipment, hardware as well as various VSTs - with little time for music, I want to spend the time making it rather than learning all different stuff. Thus, I consider selling my OP-1 and buy a pretty low budget laptop to run Live on.
I know, a low end laptop can not run a lot of tracks with a lot of CPU hungry VSTs, but I can liv with that as long as I get a portable sketch pad with a workflow that I am used to. And if I come up with something worth keeping, it should be easy to transfer to my desktop later.
For this to work: * The laptop can not be too big (i.e. too wide for a bus seat ;-)) * Be able to run decently on headphones Bose QC25 without any external soundcard - it won't be practical to bring a soundcard too. The sound has to be decent, not stellar. But the latency needs to be Ok. * I need to be able to run at least one instance of Sylenth1, Spire and Serum. It is Ok if I have to bounce (freeze and flatten) a lot. * The laptop has to be fairly cheap, I can not afford a monster right now.
Would this be possible at all ?
Submitted May 02, 2017 at 03:35PM by svenhe https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/68uzdy/simple_windows_laptop_for_music_sketches_needed/?utm_source=ifttt