Hi:
What do you plan to do with your audio workstation? As you can imagine, editing one file with Audacity is very different from running a SuperCollider server for many users while simultaneously recording its output with Ardour *and* broadcasting it on the Internet.
A very good point indeed.
I would like to be able to record stuff from guitar, midi-keyboard, microphone, DJ setup (via line input I suppose), and then edit the results with the appropriate applications. Not all at once, but maybe 1-3 inputs at a time. The ability to play in real-time through the computer's output would be very important I think as I reckon it's much harder to work any other way.
That's all I can think of right now. I currently have an SB Live with the LiveDrive thing, which has all the inputs I need, but I am thinking in terms of general system horsepower (RAM/CPU/disk etc). Finding a supported sound card it's really a problem, I'll just go with M-Audio for that. But I would like to know if I need to get one to do what I want.
K.
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On 03/04/2012 07:23 AM, Kyrian wrote:
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I would like to be able to record stuff from guitar, midi-keyboard, microphone, DJ setup (via line input I suppose), and then edit the results with the appropriate applications. Not all at once, but maybe 1-3 inputs at a time. The ability to play in real-time through the computer's output would be very important I think as I reckon it's much harder to work any other way.
That's all I can think of right now. I currently have an SB Live with the LiveDrive thing, which has all the inputs I need, but I am thinking in terms of general system horsepower (RAM/CPU/disk etc).
I can only speak for my computer, which works well for the needs you describe.
AMD Phenom II X3 720 ASUS M4A78T-E motherboard (no longer sold) 4GB memory 7500RPM SATAII hard drives
I heard that "NewEgg" is having a sale on Socket AM3 CPUs.
Finding a supported sound card it's really a problem, I'll just go with M-Audio for that. But I would like to know if I need to get one to do what I want.
M-AUDIO MobilePre USB works fine. I feel like the A->D converter is very important in a sound card, but I don't have proof, and preliminary research at the McGill Audio Quality Lab suggests otherwise.[0]
However, SoundBlaster hardware isn't designed for music so much as for movies and games. If you're going to use it for music, you may want to be more rigourous about your equalizer settings.
I'm curious what other list contributors think about this.
Christopher.
[0] http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca/MAQ/home
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