Digi001 on a G3

Steve, I have a G3 266 that I am using with the Digi 001 and it is working fine. I was considering upgrading my board to 400 mghz; you should be fine.

Where is a good place to get a deal on a G3? Any suggestions? rdp

Go to cnet.com, click on the compare prices, go to Computer Systems-Mac. Also, outpost.com & powermax.com have some good prices.

thanks steve-o! checkin' it out now... rdp

If you go this route.Get the rev 2 (with the rails above the ATA drive for mounting a 2nd ATA drive. I've had 24 tracks, 2 comp II, 1 gate, 2 Deverbs, 4 Eq's, 2 mono to stereo delays, MIDI, with some automation- all on a 400. No sign of sluggishness or slowing down.

That's what I wanted to hear! The guy at the music store was trying to sell me a G4, telling me I was going to have performance issues with the G3. After looking at some of the Macbench scores at XCLR8yourmac.com (an excellent resource, take note Stewari) the G4 looked a little overpriced. I sure like the way they look though. Thanks for everyone's help.

got my digi001 on a G3 233(beige). i was afraid that it wont work fine, but hey, a week after and i finished a track like pure butter. the thing is that on this system(before that i worked with cubase 4) you simply work and get results, and good ones. say hello to all the "hyped and cool" cyber look plug-ins and windows, its **** ! PT LE+digi 001 takes you down to the road of creativity and music making. thanks digidesign for making a simple working tool for those project studio people. So groove on brothers, Make some Noise.

Ditto on that! I have a b/w G-3 300 mhz with 194 Meg Ram & a 20gig U-ATA Seagate Barracuda and I have not had any problems or latency issues. I think that this is just a superb system and I am totally happy with it. The sound quality is just great and it is so easy to use. Just a little reading and I was on my way to working with it. I can see why so many people use the digidesign stuff! Paul G.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you pay $1500 for a G3/400 when you can get a G4/350 for about the same $$$? ...and just to go along with the flow here... Now that I have all the right extensions, and versions of drivers (and eliminated some extensions), PTLE is working reliably for me. I've run it virtually all night with no crashes, on quite a few nights now. I also have been trying to get Cubase 4.1 working longer than 20 minutes - unsuccessfully. The PT environment is much more conducive to just making music sound good, not tweaking with the latest freeware plugin. I don't end up "playing" in Protools like I do with Cubase, but I end up getting a great-sounding mix. My machine of choice is a G4/400 Sawtooth with a USB MTP A/V. ------------------ Larry W.