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Hi, I'm considering purchasing either the RME Fireface 400 or Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O (firewire based audio interfaces) for use with my soon-to-be-assembled DAW. In reading about these, and other audio interfaces, I have been a bit unclear about the purpose/role of the digital mixers that...

Hi, I was reading about microphone emulation software in one of the audio magazines, and wondered what people think of this kind of thing. Are any of the programs that emulate mics. any good? I know this is a highly subjective question, so maybe a better one would be: are there distinctive...

Hi, I saw a post on the Sonar 6 forum from someone who was running Sonar on an iMac through Bootcamp without a problem, and was wondering what the experience of others' here might be in relation to this because I had read an article an article in an audio magazine shortly after Bootcamp came out...

Hi, I've been considering cases for my new DAW, bearing in mind that I'd like to be editing video as well (that means a total of 3 HD's I think, and the attendant heat and noise issues). I've read good things about Antech and Thermaltake, but am confused about several issues and would like some...

I definitely have to buy Sonar for my new DAW (soon to be purchased, assembled and used), but was thinking that, for economy sake, I would go with 5 rather than 6 if I could find an unused copy (because they can't be re-used/sold secondhand, right?). Does anyone know of anywhere in Toronto...

Hi, I have a pretty thin sounding voice which I don't like (although I quite like my performances and the way that I sing); it kind of sounds almost rasping at times, and grates on me. When I first began recording on my Tascam 424MKII way back when, and couldn't afford outboard gear, I (sin of...

Hi, I'm about to buy an RME Fireface 400 as the audio interface for my soon-to-be DAW, and was wondering what advice you all have about plugging an electric guitar into it. I had just assumed that this is what people do, but then a friend cast doubt on this, so, for the record, is there any...

After years of procrastination in which I have driven myself, and one of my friends, crazy, I am finally in the home straight of buying a DAW. The following specs./products are what I'm aiming for, and I'm wondering what people would say about the potential conflicts with Sonar Home Studio or...

Hi, I think (please take that with a grain of salt) that I've narrowed down the choice for the type of soundcard down to either the Emu 1820 M or Presonus Firepod. My requirements are multiple inputs, built-in good preamps, abiliity to do MIDI, and keeping the price under about $800 U.S. for...

Hi, Does anyone have any knowledge experience of how the Nusystems cases (http://www.nusystems.co.uk) compare with the Antec ones (www.antec.com)? GVDV

Hi, I don't want to violate any niceties of cross-forum posting, so I'll simply ask this question for now - would this forum be the appropriate place for asking advice about what hardware to use for a Sonar 4 P based DAW, or would this question be more appropriate on the Computers and Soundcards...

Hi, Given a decent amount of RAM, and appropriately matched components and electronics (motherboard, Front Side Bus, hard drive cache etc.) is it realistic to expect virtually no latency issues in Sonar 4 PE when recording approximately 8 tracks simultaneously with 3 or 4 plug-ins (reverb, drum...

Hi, Over the past year or so I have been researching assembling a PC based DAW. However, I have also decided that I would like the PC to be capable of video editing (digital mostly, and analogue-to-digital conversion). I have asked on another part of this website if there are any *general*...

Hi, Over the past year or so I have been researching assembling a PC based DAW. However, I have also decided that I would like the PC to be capable of video editing (digital mostly, and analogue-to-digital conversion). Are there any *general* issues that I need to look out for (I'm going to...

Hi, I've been wanting to switch to a non-separate portable media player/recorder for a while, but for various reasons am not satisfied with any of the alternatives to minidisc that are currently available. I noticed the other day that there are now 1GB MD recorders around, and was wondering if...

Hi, I'm researching putting together a PC based DAW, using Sonar 4 PE as the sequencer/multitrack program. I live in Toronto, Canada, and am planning on doing some work with my cousin - who lives in the U.K., and who has a Mac - by sending tracks back and forth over the net. For now my cousin...

Hi, I'm still in the process of trying to decide what OS and components to use for my soon-to-be-purchased DAW. I read the other day that Cakewalk recommend using Windows 2000 as an OS for Sonar 4, but it seems to me that a lot of people are using Win XP. Is the latter stable with Sonar 4...

In assembling my new DAW, should I be looking to go for a Firewire 800 or a PCI based system? What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each of these types of connection? I think that I read somewhere that if one uses a PCI based system for audio, one has to make sure not to use...

Hi, It seems to me that many people who post here seem to use programs such as Fruity Loops to generate drum tracks, rather than using MIDI (which, to me, gives more control over specific programming, rather than cutting and pasting a looped .WAV file). Is this perception of mine accurate? If...

Hi, I'm in the final stage of my 'research' on hardware and software for my first DAW, and I had some questions regarding sequencing software. Because I'd like to initially spend most of my money on hardware, I'm considering going with a cheaper sequencer, such as N-Track when I first build my...