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Actually, every studio owner I know is an uber geek and every one of the, chooses Mac. These are guys who are unafraid to bust open every single bit of gear and reconfigure it by screwdriver or by soldering iron. This includes their computers. They buy Macs not because they lack the...

The Mac Mini with Core Duo will have plenty of processor power, but you will want to upgrade the ram and possibly the hard drive as well. The stock hard drive is a 5400 which you could get by with but if you have a ton of tracks and edits you will need a 7200 hard drive.

It's really only FREE for the first 30 days, although it is fully functional, non-expiring shareware, which means that technically you won't lose any functionality by going past the 30 days. But the truth is you can't beat the price for what you get, which is a fully-featured Digital Audio...

I have tried Tracktion 2, and while it is good, Reaper's routing flexibility and overall quality trumps it any day. Reaper now includes ReWire and is undergoing a midi overhaul at the moment. Another great thing about Reaper is that it is updated on and almost weekly basis, yet the updates...

There are good solutions out there for the poor (like me). I work at a church and get paid very little because the church does not have much money. So I go online and find a site that sells PT M-Powered for a hundred bucks cheaper to students, churches, and non-profits. (At the time, the...

The problem is, there is simply no stopping it. Whenever someone comes up with a legal or technological solution, those who pirate software just find another way to get around it. The only way to stop online trading of illegal files is to shut down the internet. Good luck with that. I guess...

The Fasttrack Pro is the only M-Audio Product I have had an issue with. I bought one to use with my iBook G4 and I was getting unrelenting clicks and pops and the problem ended up being unsolvable. M-Audio tech support said that they very very rarely have problems with it and macs, and they...

Agreed. I used to have a 350 Mhz PII laptop w/ 256 MB of RAM that ran great with XP and no Service Packs. Also, a complete wipe is probably the best way to go.

OK. Basically, what you will need is some kind of basic audio interface and a mic or two. I am assuming you have some instruments already. If you need a mixer or not will depend on which audio interface you pick up. It will be easiest to pick up an M-Audio Fasttrack USB (...

Don't be afraid to use pitch correction a little bit if needed. Not everyone can be on all the time and pitch correction is good to help out takes that are great except for one part. Using it too much will make your vocal sound unnatural because part of the beauty of a human voice is the...

Garageband is really, really good. Out of every program I have ever tried, GB is the easiest and quickest I have ever used. I think it may be the greatest songwriting software I have ever used, just because it is SO damn easy to use. It is my main tool for writing songs using my keyboard and...

I think the bottom line here is that it won't hurt you to give Reaper a shot. You go to the website reaper.fm and then go to the download page and download the full version. It is fully functional and does not stop working even after your 30 day trial is done, which means if you need an extra...

Groove Agent is not freeware or shareware and there is no demo available that I am aware of. If you are looking for shareware drums, check out JamStix at: http://www.rayzoon.com/ It is a great program and there is a demo available to try out.

ASIO definitely helps with midi latency. I get around 10-12 ms latency without ASIO on my PC, and switching to ASIO I get 2-3ms.

Also, inserts are placed on a specific track and only apply to the track they are placed on. Using sends, however, you can create and aux track, insert an effect on the aux track, and then use send to route signals from many other tracks through the aux track thus applying the same effect to...

I disagree about the RAM. you should get as much as you can afford if you like virtual instruments, those tend to eat up all of your RAM and then politely ask for more. It will not impact your system speed much overall, but any program that likes to load up stuff into RAM will utilize all of...

You can get by without it if you need to, but the bottom line is that your OS is going to reference files on your system drive at some point while you are recording and that will in turn impact the number of audio files that can be played and recorded at the same time, hurting your overall...

You may have your buffer settings too low. I have a very similar system and I will usually run 128 samples during recording and then move up to 1024 samples during mixing when latency is not so important. I also hold off on adding effects like reverb until I am done recording so that the...

You might pick up an M-Audio Fast track Pro USB. It goes for about $250.00 and comes with GT Player Express (amp and stomp box models) and it has midi in and out. I am going to pick one up myself to replace my old Omnistudio USB (the Fast Track Pro is bus powered, good for using on a laptop).

I have ardour for OS X on my iBook and I also have it on my linux box. I only have to experiment with though. While I am pretty advanced in gui-heavy OS's like Windows and OS X, when it comes to an OS where I have to use a console alot I get headaches. On OS X it doesn't load all of the time...