[CUBE] Best $$ I ever spent on my Cube

[George Pepper]

I too have that LaCie drive, but it's connected to my Xserve: G4 1GHz 
[Soon to be 360GB of HD storage]... Encore is my primary composition 
program: I don't even use a MIDI keyboard... The LaCie drive does 
rock!...

MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV
E-MU Virtuoso 2000
[Soon to have FireWire Digi 02 Rack]

Macs are the ultimate artist computers ;^)...

Pep

On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 11:30  AM, jesse v wrote:

> 1.2ghz PowerLogix 7457 upgrade card
> MotU 828mk2 FireWire audio interface
> LaCie L2 8x DVD-/+RW
> Belkin 6-port FireWire hub
>
> Why?
>
> FCP4, SoundTrack, DVD Studio Pro 2, Digital Performer 4 etc... run 
> like a dream.
>
> Audio levels (from the system level to my receiver) are LOUD, crisp, 
> and PERECT, not to mention I now have 24bit, 96kHz 24 simultaneous 
> tracks in and out, as well as optical and coaxial I/O, midi I/O, and 2 
> MIC/Guitar XLR pre's in. The system won't even let me control the 
> audio from my volume slider or keys, it's all done with whatever 
> receiver or device I'm playing my audio from (and unlike Apple's 
> analog or USB audio, with ALL volume sliders at full blast, there's no 
> distortion)
>
> At first when I got the PL upgrade, I was only able to encode CD's at 
> 7x tops, but with the LaCie DVDR, it rips at 17-20x. The shortcoming 
> was in the cubes DVD drive. Not to mention, 24x CD burning, and 8x DVD 
> burning and along with the drive ($250) came Toast 6 Ti. The drive has 
> no on or off switch, but only engages when it's called on by media or 
> software, so it's constantly cool, SILENT, and ready. (Very nice 
> aluminum enclosure to boot).
>
> All this plugged into my Cube, and I have 3 firewire ports left to 
> hot-swap DV cams, iPods, external HD's, and what not.
>
> All this for less than a new iBook.
>
> I won't be buying a new machine until at least late '05
>
>
> jesse
>
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