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Laptop for Music Production

  • 09-10-2018 12:45pm
    #1
    Arrival
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    Hey guys, I'm hoping you can help me choose the most suitable laptop for producing electronic music using Ableton Live and FL Studio. Ideally the price range would be around €800 or lower but I understand some laptops could justify spending up to €1,000.

    I'd appreciate any advice with this, thank you!


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  • #2
    mordeith
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    Arrival wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm hoping you can help me choose the most suitable laptop for producing electronic music using Ableton Live and FL Studio. Ideally the price range would be around €800 or lower but I understand some laptops could justify spending up to €1,000.

    I'd appreciate any advice with this, thank you!

    It depends somewhat on your productions. Will you using a lot of audio samples or is it mainly soft synths? Will you using much outboard gear? Will you playing live or just home production stuff?


  • #3
    Arrival
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    mordeith wrote: »
    It depends somewhat on your productions. Will you using a lot of audio samples or is it mainly soft synths? Will you using much outboard gear? Will you playing live or just home production stuff?

    Thanks for replying! Just getting started on home production and at most I'd be connecting a midi controller. I'll more than likely get an external HDD for the samples so I'm not too worried about storage also, although an SSD would be pretty sweet


  • #4
    mordeith
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    Arrival wrote: »
    Thanks for replying! Just getting started on home production and at most I'd be connecting a midi controller. I'll more than likely get an external HDD for the samples so I'm not too worried about storage also, although an SSD would be pretty sweet

    You don't need a whole lot then. I'm running FL Studio 12 with an AKAI MPK mini.
    I've 8GB RAM and an SSD with samples stored on another internal HDD.
    The only change I had to make is using ASIO drivers to reduce latency from the MIDI controller. Apart from that all is good. An SSD is a must though.


  • #5
    Arrival
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    mordeith wrote: »
    You don't need a whole lot then. I'm running FL Studio 12 with an AKAI MPK mini.
    I've 8GB RAM and an SSD with samples stored on another internal HDD.
    The only change I had to make is using ASIO drivers to reduce latency from the MIDI controller. Apart from that all is good. An SSD is a must though.

    What are your thoughts on this one?

    https://www.dell.com/en-ie/work/shop/laptops/inspiron-15-7000/spd/inspiron-15-7570-laptop/bn757010

    Or would it be worth spending the extra to get this?

    https://www.dell.com/en-ie/work/shop/laptops/inspiron-15-5000-2-in-1/spd/inspiron-15-5579-2-in-1-laptop/bn57909


  • #6
    Useful.Idiot
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    Just be mindful if considering Dell laptops for music production. Have read a lot about latency issues that may even persist with workarounds:

    https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Win-10-Home-High-DPC-latency-XPS-15-9570-ACPI-sys/td-p/6113042


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  • #7
    mordeith
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    Didn't see your earlier post. I don't think the extra is worth it. You won't need 16GB RAM. A bigger SSD is always good though. As poster above says there may be latency issues. I previously had a Dell XPS Studio. Absolutely beautiful machine but latency was very annoying. I was always having to tinker with buffer size one I got past a certain amount of tracks. Plus response from the midi controller was delayed significantly at times (had to manually quantize stuff sometimes as a result)


  • #8
    Arrival
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    Crap! Would ye have any suggestions on similar ones without that issue? I never would've thought of latency as a possible issue before this


  • #9
    mordeith
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    Arrival wrote: »
    Crap! Would ye have any suggestions on similar ones without that issue? I never would've thought of latency as a possible issue before this

    Well I can't vouch for current models so you might want to do some research on it. May not be an such an issue. Asus might be an option. I've always liked their more premium models.


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