Best Laptop for Live Performace

Deadly Buda · Post by **Deadly Buda** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:29 am

Hi, I'm new to Ms. Pinky, but I just got my vinyl today!

From browsing the forum, I know I have to get a U46DJ, and some Shure M44-7s, but what would the most reliable laptop specifications be for playing live? Video card, audio card, CPU, memory, etc.??? I'll be using Neuromixer.

Maybe slightly off topic, but any video projector suggestions?

simonbal · Post by **simonbal** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:22 pm

if you want the best dont get the u46dj get somthing like a RME Multiface or a EMU 1616m

as for a laptop the best hmmm in single treaded apps the FX60 wins for processing most things, it also wins in multithreaded apps as well so if you want the best look for a laptop with one of the 2gb or more of ram and a nice GPU

http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks/xtreme64_cons.htm

lol expensive but realistly a pentium M 160 with a decend GPU and some ram will be good enough

Deadly Buda · Post by **Deadly Buda** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:45 am

Hi simonbal,

Thanks for the insight. Unfortunately, I got the news too late and had gotten the U46DJ and it came close to driving me insane. So now it's back to the drawing board... You mention the RME Multiface - is that a better solution than the RME RPM?

The other thing is syncing the audio crossfade with the video crossfade - does this mean getting one of those fancy MIDI DJ mixers, or is there another way?

simonbal · Post by **simonbal** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:40 pm

the ecler is a good midi mixer as far as im away that is the only way at the min, the RME's are both pretter similar they will get hte same latency values, the multiface i prefer because you can add more devices out and in :S,

you oculd perhaps try to make a midi device what reads the movements opticaly :S

Deadly Buda · Post by **Deadly Buda** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:40 am

I saw the new Pioneer DJM 800 has midi out and a digital out. I hooked the digital out of my Pioneer DJM3000 and Maxi-Patch responded but still no video fade.

Check out this preview of the new Dell M90 (page translated from French)

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en ... %26t%3D214

simonbal · Post by **simonbal** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:09 am

i dont like dell, their computers are ok but people think they are getting a good deal, their not realy... its probally exactly the same price as the vaio as the same spec, or any other brand.......

Deadly Buda · Post by **Deadly Buda** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:40 pm

It has a 512mb nvidia quadro card. And the whole thing is under 7 lbs. That's sorta cool.