any of you use your HP for music recording?

any of you use your HP for music recording? Do any of you use something such as Sonar, pro tools, cubase, Reason 3, or something similar?

How does it work? does the laptop handle it well?

 

I don't use it for music recording, but I do know my stuff

If you're going to be doing some major recording, you'll want to bump the hard drive up to a 7200RPM for that extra boost of speed.

Plus the system has Firewire, so you'll be good as far as being able to connect any Firewire soundcards or mixing devices.

But if you're only going to have a couple of tracks going, then a 5400RPM drive and 2GB of RAM should be fine. Just keep in mind that Vista is hog and you might want to upgrade to XP.

 

I just installed my sonar 7 on my hp dv2000. i havent ran it yet. I plan to upgrade the memory to 4gb and use a external HD as well *too bad i cant find a 7200rpm hd that runs off internal power.

Im only using it for mixing and arranging stuff i already recorded on my music computer at home. I just hope it can handle the waves bundle plug ins i have, and a few large cpu hog vst's i have. but i guess thats the importants of the freeze functions in your daw and mixing down to audio and working with audio only inside my laptop.

I will come back and let u know how this lower end laptop holds up to some music stuff.

 

have you noticed any hardware issues with the HP's?

 

hp pavilion 9500t
Reaper. line 6 ux1. m audio bax5 monitors.
No problems, plenty of power.