Hello,
I'm a computer guy but never a sound person. It's all really greek and doesn't make sense. My son is the musician and he's not technical. I am, but finding this not all that intuitive.
So helping my son I enrolled him into an Ableton DAW school to learn the tool. We got him set up with a beefy old computer I had. Was fast but not so much anymore. I got some external monitor speakers and a firewire M-Audio firewire solo. That worked for plugging into the computer and the speakers. But my son has a Yamaha midi keyboard and a USB microphone.
So my question is, do we just plug the USB intruments into the computer directly? I keep thinking the M-Audio controller or some kind of controller that can take these USB plugs plus do analog inputs too, would be best. But I can't seem to find anything like that. I just seem like I can't figure this out.
I was thinking the Ableton software could sort it out via the software, but I'm not sure what the best approach is.
thanks for any help.
I'm a computer guy but never a sound person. It's all really greek and doesn't make sense. My son is the musician and he's not technical. I am, but finding this not all that intuitive.
So helping my son I enrolled him into an Ableton DAW school to learn the tool. We got him set up with a beefy old computer I had. Was fast but not so much anymore. I got some external monitor speakers and a firewire M-Audio firewire solo. That worked for plugging into the computer and the speakers. But my son has a Yamaha midi keyboard and a USB microphone.
So my question is, do we just plug the USB intruments into the computer directly? I keep thinking the M-Audio controller or some kind of controller that can take these USB plugs plus do analog inputs too, would be best. But I can't seem to find anything like that. I just seem like I can't figure this out.
I was thinking the Ableton software could sort it out via the software, but I'm not sure what the best approach is.
thanks for any help.