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Rain Recording Livebook L7 Laptop Audio Computer

Core 2 Duo power on the road.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           9 out of 10
Features:
           7 out of 10
Quality:
           9 out of 10
Value:
           7 out of 10
I Want It:
           8 out of 10
Sound:
           7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           8 out of 10
Support:
           9 out of 10
 
 

"Great Laptop DAW less about flash and more about getting to work. Solid."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from gmail.com
Submitted: 6/22/2008
Style of Music: Rock and others
Musical Experience: Active Musician and Engineer
Location: New York, NY, USA

 

 
Feature:
The LiveBook comes with a few nice accessories. One really useful one is the separate FireWire card which helped when I discovered my Presonus Firebox doesn't always play so well with certain cards. It did work great with the LiveBook though.

Quality:
It is very well constructed. Feels real sturdy and the picture quality of the screen is very impressive. I have had several laptops from many companies like Dell and HP and can honestly say this is a breath of fresh air. It's a LOT more stable for recording music!!

Value:
So far so good. I really like this laptop DAW and am getting a lot of great use out of it. It feels solid and run very well.

Desirability:
Hard to comment on se appeal of a laptop, I have had some ugly laptops, but this certainly isn't if that says anything. Overall, I think it's a great DAW.

Sound:
While it's difficult to judge a laptop DAW for sound as your monitors and soundcard are what provide that, I can say that the on-board speakers provide a nice sound quality for watching the occasional DVD, playing back MP3's etc. This laptop is also fairly quiet which is really nice as fan noise can be a problem on most laptops- not with the LiveBook though.

Ease of Use:
It was very easy to get started recording and making beats. I opted for audio integration which meant that all of my software and interface was set up and ready to go when it arrived. Very nice touch.

Support:
Rain's support has been very helpful though I have only contacted them a few times with set-up questions mostly, they were always friendly and provided great answers quickly.

Overall:
This was exactly what my home studio needed. I move around doing live shows, but needed something I could set up at home and use as a DAW too and this fits the bill perfectly. I don't see the need to replace it and it seems like I'll get a lot of use out of it over the next few years.

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"Lacking ANY useful features for musicians, like built-in high quality audio I/O, phantom power, or maybe something neat like fad"

Overall:
          1 out of 10
Features:
          1 out of 10
Quality:
          5 out of 10
Value:
          1 out of 10
I Want It:
          1 out of 10
Sound:
          1 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          1 out of 10
Support:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from gmail.com
Submitted: 5/21/2008
Style of Music: various / world music
Musical Experience: Recording Engineer
Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

 
Feature:
there are no music specific features, unless you buy other stuff, which will then make for extra little boxes and extra power cables. Make a laptop with some audio I/O and built in faders, phantom power for our microphones, so we can actually carry less crap around... Why would I buy an ugly no-name product that has nothing over any Apple, Sony or HP notebook???

Quality:
just a middle of the road no-name OEM notebook. You can probably find the exact same thing in 30 different adds in computer shopper from companies like Sager etc. Lame...

Value:
where IS the special value to a musician? I can sell you some snake oil to make your fingers play faster too.

Desirability:
a bit lacking in the design department for any "I want it" factor... maybe if it came with a Luis Vuitton handbag for my girlfriend :P

Sound:
its a sham... its just a regular laptop computer... there's not even a high quality music I/O built in, let alone faders or controllers. I could use any number of notebooks to achieve the exact same thing, and I'd have to shell out less for most of them, leaving me more money to buy the actual musician's goodies you need to make this do anything :P I'm flabbergasted at this brazen attempt at selling us the emperor's new clothes...

Ease of Use:
Ease of use... for musicians: none for the same reasons stated above.

Support:
no idea, didn't use

Overall:
humm, yeah, what more to say...

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