My new Acer Aspire 5515 notebook

I got myself a new laptop to use as my recording pc. It came with Windows Vista Home Basic installed and it has an AMD64 processor. It’s only a 1.6Ghz processor though. I’ve already installed all my recording programs except for Samplitude. I’ve also installed the EZdrummer VST which is the main reason I need a computer in the first place. The 3Gb’s of installed ram really help out in using EZdrummer. The onboard sound is not that great which I expected so I will need to get a usb sound card to record with. I tried to record through the built-in sound card input but the latency was impossible to work with. I could try the ASIO4all driver but I’d rather just buy a new soundcard and use it’s drivers. I’m currently dual booting Ubuntu 8.04 with Vista and I’ll probably write up a dedicated post to explain the problems I encountered.

• Acer 5515 and Ubuntu Jaunty alpha 5
  25 March 2009 11:59 AM | No Comments

  I’ve had my Acer 5515 laptop for a while now. It came with Windows Vista Home Basic preinstalled, which works very well. However, I prefer to use linux most of the time, Ubuntu being my favorite version of linux. When I first got the laptop...

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• Ubuntu 10.04 on Acer 5515: Be Careful
  08 May 2010 9:44 AM | 11 Comments

  Oh snap! Where'd Vista go?

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• PreSonus AudioBox USB vs. Edirol UA-4FX USB
  12 April 2009 4:21 PM | 3 Comments

  It’s become obvious to me that I need a soundcard for my laptop. Seeing as how I can’t use one of the many quality soundcards I have in my desktop pc’s, they’re pci, it looks like I need to start looking for a usb soundcard....

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• Reaper v2.100 released!
  01 February 2008 6:39 AM | No Comments

  About REAPER REAPER is reasonably priced Windows software for multitrack audio production.   REAPER requires no dongle, has no copy protection, and can be evaluated with full functionality.   Portable – supports running from USB keys or other removable media 64 bit audio engine Excellent...

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• Reaper v2.102 released
  05 February 2008 11:55 AM | No Comments

  About REAPER REAPER is reasonably priced Windows software for multitrack audio production. REAPER requires no dongle, has no copy protection, and can be evaluated with full functionality. Portable – supports running from USB keys or other removable media 64 bit audio engine Excellent low-latency performance...

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