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[Tito83]

Cracked and got a ToneX one. Crap.

 

[gearJunkie]

Cracked and got a ToneX one. Crap.

me too. Tonex, Capture, and Tonex One.


That's 147 freebies. What should I choose?

 

[[Nathan]]

me too. Tonex, Capture, and Tonex One.


That's 147 freebies. What should I choose?

Pretty much everything guitar related and more
Havent had much time with the TRacks6 stuff but the Triad Chorus was insta tone for 80's guitars

 

[Sascha Franck]

That's 147 freebies. What should I choose?

A new SSD.

 

[gearJunkie]

A new SSD.

So true. Fortunately, I was recently able to free up 6 TB of space on my music laptop by dumping old projects (and other files) to a UGREEN NAS that has about 56 TB of available RAID5 storage.

 

[Sascha Franck]

So true. Fortunately, I was recently able to free up 6 TB of space on my music laptop by dumping old projects (and other files) to a UGREEN NAS that has about 56 TB of available RAID5 storage.

How can you have 6TB of space on a laptop? Likely not a Macbook, because that space would cost as much as the computer...
And yes, I'm jealous. And I hate Apple, too.

 

[gearJunkie]

How can you have 6TB of space on a laptop? Likely not a Macbook, because that space would cost as much as the computer...
And yes, I'm jealous. And I hate Apple, too.

I only have 2 TB out of 4 TB in my 2019 macbook Pro 16 (Intel).

My main media production machine is a Lenovo Legion 7i Pro with 2 x 4 TB SSD, 64 GB DDR5 RAM, Intel i9 14900HX, RTX 4090.

I haven't done any music production on a desktop in over a decade. I prefer beefy laptops for their portability.

Even when it comes to computers, my "gearJunkie" moniker seems somewhat appropriate.

 

[Shask]

I Have 3 hard drives in my computer, so I just threw all the IK and NI sample libraries on a different drive.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, for a short while, I had a higher amount of storage space in my 2008 plastic Macbook than in my 2024 fancy new MBA for €2600. Back in the days, you couldn't only exchange the main internal drive in a matter of seconds (after you've mirrored your system drive, which isn't possible anymore, either) but you could as well rip the optical drive out in favour of a second HDD frame, which is what I did. So I ended up with a 1TB system SSD and a 2TB HDD for storage. These days, I could easily go for 2x4TB SSD storage space. Would even still be cheaper than what I paid for my MBA's upgrade from 512GB (which is pathetic to even start with) to 2TB.
There's a lot of reasons to hate Apple with a passion...
(I quite love my MBA, though, at least so far.)

 

[Shask]

Never been an Apple fan because of BS like this. I don't buy anything Apple other than their stocks.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Never been an Apple fan because of BS like this.

Well, I'm a Logic user since around 1997, so I can't really help it anymore. Should've switched when Apple bought Emagic, but here we are...
But then, apart from all the issues I'm having with Apple, there's still no other laptop delivering that much at such a form factor. No moving parts inside, does only get lukewarm under load (mind you, with the lid closed) and battery life is good for an entire day, including working in pretty heavy Logic sessions.