Music Making with a Computer for Dummies

[Txema]

Hi, I'm NOT a musician but a computer geek.
The first article is pretty basic so let me put my 2 cents:
Modern processors, CPU's, have cores and threads, a two core four threads CPU will be "read" by the operating system as 4 CPU's but won't be as efficient as a 4 cores 4 threads that's also "read" as 4 CPU's. Examples an Intel i3 is a two core four threads while the i7 is 4 cores 4 threads.
The ammount of Cache memory and Front Side Bus, FSB, speed will benefit the over all processing.
As for memory, the more the merrier, but if you match the FSB of the CPU with the FSB of the memory there won't be any delays on the transit of the information.
But remember, an 32 bit OS would only accept 4 GB of RAM, so go for a 64 Bit OS.
An finally the Hard Disk, SSD are the fastest kid on the town, and the more expensive. So you can get a 10,000 RPM SATA 2, 32 or 64 KB cache memory HD and get a pretty good performance.

[dmiller91]

Um that was great and stuff, but is part 2 posted? That was a pretty basic article.

[nortone]

I recently purchased sonar X1 essential and I'm just getting familiar with it so far I see great potential .
I have a Peavey Studiomix control surface that works well with the Daw but for some reason the mike input and the line in stopped working...tape in and outs work as well as the soundcard I/O's.
I'm thinking something inside the board is the culprit.I read the manual over and over but I can't find out what the problem is.any suggestions ?

[witzendoz]

I recently purchased sonar X1 essential and I'm just getting familiar with it so far I see great potential .
I have a Peavey Studiomix control surface that works well with the Daw but for some reason the mike input and the line in stopped working...tape in and outs work as well as the soundcard I/O's.
I'm thinking something inside the board is the culprit.I read the manual over and over but I can't find out what the problem is.any suggestions ?

Start this as a new thread, you will get more replies. People coming here think the subject is "Music Making with a Computer for Dummies"

[ralphmconger]

nice post chater! i will wait for your article about "making music on computer". Thanks for post

[cyborgmusic]

good post