Will X1 work with my computer?

I am looking into getting X1 soon and i just need to know will my laptop work with it good the way that it is or do I possibly need to upgrade for instance ram ect..
 
I have an HP Pavilion dv6 running 64bit Windows 7 
It has a Intel Core Duo 2 - 2.20Ghz with 4 gig of ram

What sound card? The computer looks, but if you're planning to use the built in sound, then you won't get good results. 

KrazieSevenSign


i was planning on using the soundcard that comes with the laptop...

you should be fine to run this..but dont exspect your sound card to work to well.youll need an interface if you wanna say,plug your guitar in or drum machines,bass...exc..youll run into latency issues..if your not sure what latency is do a quick search..its when you hit a note and it comes out a half second later

KrazieSevenSign


I am looking into getting X1 soon and i just need to know will my laptop work with it good the way that it is or do I possibly need to upgrade for instance ram ect..
 
I have an HP Pavilion dv6 running 64bit Windows 7 
It has a Intel Core Duo 2 - 2.20Ghz with 4 gig of ram

Hi, Krazie - I've been running Sonar on my laptop which is similar to yours.  Works great with 8.5, and it's OK with X1, except that with X1 the interface components don't adapt to screen size.   I need to collapse the control bar to see the tops of things like the inspector, but that works OK.

Mine is an HP Pavilion dv9700, 64 bits, Vista, AMD Dual core at 2.10 Ghz, 4 gigs of ram.  I'd say your computer is a bit more high powered than mine.

BUT there's no way you'd make things work with your built in sound card.  You really can't even consider doing that.  I'm using a relatively humble Alesis iO|2 for my interface - it's mandatory you get something like that.  You need Asio.  It's impossible to make the built in card work for a recording program like Sonar.

EDIT:  I meant to add that I have large 17" model, and the highest resolution is 1400 X 900.  That's less than Cakewalk says is the minimum - hence not being able to see everything, as I mentioned.  I have a second monitor plugged into the laptop, and that makes life a lot easier, but of course that still doesn't fix the slight vertical disadvantage I'm at.

Randy B.

rbowser

KrazieSevenSign


I am looking into getting X1 soon and i just need to know will my laptop work with it good the way that it is or do I possibly need to upgrade for instance ram ect..

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 running 64bit Windows 7 
It has a Intel Core Duo 2 - 2.20Ghz with 4 gig of ram

Hi, Krazie - I've been running Sonar on my laptop which is similar to yours.  Works great with 8.5, and it's OK with X1, except that with X1 the interface components don't adapt to screen size.   I need to collapse the control bar to see the tops of things like the inspector, but that works OK.

Mine is an HP Pavilion dv9700, 64 bits, Vista, AMD Dual core at 2.10 Ghz, 4 gigs of ram.  I'd say your computer is a bit more high powered than mine.

BUT there's no way you'd make things work with your built in sound card.  You really can't even consider doing that.  I'm using a relatively humble Alesis iO|2 for my interface - it's mandatory you get something like that.  You need Asio.  It's impossible to make the built in card work for a recording program like Sonar.

Randy B.

randy,that alesis i02,did you use asio4all??it dont come with drivers does it..only the io2 portable.
but that wouldnt be a bad interface for him to start with,budget wise.its only a hundred bucks

KrazieSevenSign
i was planning on using the soundcard that comes with the laptop...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"Since X1 is only working on a few computers in the world"


Gee, it worked on my Vista Intel dual core and when I upgraded to Win7 64bit it also works. How lucky am I! Probably I don't do enough "demanding" work on it to crash it.