Normal Laptop & USB Midi Piano - All you'd need?

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LeAnne

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Yes you can use your normal soundcard but you must use Asio4All, google it. That way you won't get any delay when you press the key on your keyboard to when you hear the sound (latency).
 
Trying to buy a laptop for DAW music making can be quite confusing and only a handful of companies make laptops specifically for this purpose.
A big thing appears to be 'Texas Instruments Firewire Chipset' - apparently its a must!

But here's the thing: if all you want to do is play your midi piano IN and then arrange and tweak in Cubase or another DAW, do you actually need 'Midi Interfaces' and all that stuff?
What I mean is, with a USB Midi piano plugged directly into a laptops USB 2.0 slot, and with no live outputting or multi-instrument requirements, the only thing I can think of would be latency. Would this be an issue with a generic high-end laptop, for instance the HP Pavillion range?

I'm probably missing something here, hopefully somebody could fill me in!
Thankyou
Fred
 
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