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It's currently more powerful than some Macbooks of pretty recent vintage which people do run pianos from. It is certainly far, far closer to a Macbook than an iPad (touchscreen, one port, no expandable storage or RAM, and you know, a different OS.) The Macbook air is really an iPad with a keyboard. I'm sure the OP is well aware whether FW is an option and I would advise him to use it because it really does do better with streaming audio than USB in my experience - provided the drive is fast enough of course. They have discontinued that line and now all Macbooks are Macbook Pros, and all have FW. Yes, you are right that the first small Macbook with the unibody didn't have firewire, but every other Macbook has/does. I don't really consider it a Macbook/laptop. I wouldn't even consider it as a laptop powerful enough for this discussion. Well, the Macbook air is really an iPad with a keyboard.
Macbook Pros have always had Firewire as of June 2, 2012. But in Oct 2008 the Macbook 4,2 was introduced without Firewire and subsequent MacBooks never had Firewire again. I believe the OP's Macbook, from the description, is either a Macbook2,1 or Macbook3,1 which did have Firewire 400. MacBooks did NOT have Firewire after October 2008. But since that doesn't meet the manufacturers minimum hard drive requirements, you may have to deal with that issue later depending on what piano you use and what else you run simultaneously.
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So you can inexpensively maximize the RAM in your Mac and try some piano software using the single internal drive in your Mac.
If you wanted to use an external drive and your Macbook does not have a Firewire interface you would have to use a USB 2.0 external hard drive, which is the minimum recommended external interface for some piano software and not recommended for others. Kits for adding a 2nd internal hard drive are available from a number of sources. Some people here will tell you to ignore these recommendations (some of them don't use Macs), but if you want to follow the manufacturers recommendations you would either need to use an external drive or replace the internal optical drive in your Mac with a 7200 RPM drive (or an SSD but they are quite expensive per GB of storage). The latter means you would need a separate 7200 RPM hard drive for the samples. That may cause limitations (such as having to use more latency) depending on set-up and what else you want to run simultaneously with the piano software.īeyond RAM you will find that the 5400 RPM disc drive (unless it was upgraded to 7200 RPM) does not meet the recommended minimum requirements of most software pianos, and running the sample library on the same drive as OS X is not recommended. Your processor meets the minimum requirement for the virtual piano software I am familiar with, but just barely in some cases. The former is limited to 3 GB and the latter 6 GB of addressable RAM, although Apple officially only supported 2 GB and 4 GB respectively. Check the Model Identifier in the System Profiler to see which it is. If your Macbook originally shipped with 1 GB RAM it should be a MacBook2,1 or MacBook3,1. I don't believe the latter was ever sold with that processor.
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Piano Tuner can be used by someone who wants to learn how to tune a piano by using a tuning lever and also be used by a professional piano tuner to help the tuning process. The slightest difference between the actual pitch and the ideal pitch accumulates over time and appears as a movement on the strobe tuning meter. Strobe tuners are extremely accurate compare to regular tuners with a needle or LEDs. Piano Tuner is a 12-note chromatic scale strobe tuner and partial analyzer application that utilizes sound input devices such as built-in microphone, line in and iSight.
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