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You are plugging a $200 microphone into a soundcard with 40 cents worth of chips. Onboard soundcards are NOT made for music production. Get yourself a real asio usb audio interface.

I moved from Reaper PC to Reaper on iMac 2 years ago. Zero problems. Your Reaper projects will open just fine (minus any PC-only plugins of course) OSX will READ pc ntfs drives just fine for moving files. You'll need to format any external drives for osx of course.

Microphones don't know style of music. You have to find something that sounds good with your voice in your space with the way you sing. (thats why so many people take so long to find what works for them)

You're almost up to the price of a Shure SM7b, a standard for radio voices worldwide. Try to pick one up second-hand or stretch your budget another $50...

midi is not sound it is only performance data (note #xx on, velocity xx, note off). If you want the internal sounds you need to run the line out to line in on your interface and record audio in your daw. You CAN record the midi via usb, edit it then send it out to the keyboard and record the...

Agree with Ethan. Unless you have a multi-million dollar studio, 24bit/44.1khz is all you need.

Well you should keep archival backups in cases out of the light anyway. I've got cdr's that I burned on a 1x scsi burner 15+ years ago that are still perfect. (btw: blanks were $25 EACH back then...) Everything keeps getting bigger. I still remember 5 1/4" floppies that held 180 KILObytes on...

If you already have a drive, use it. But if you are buying new drives, there is NO reason not to get 7200rpm drives.

Have you tried plugging it into another usb port? After that, I'd uninstall and reinstall the Digitech's drivers. (I have an rp 355 but I dont bother with the usb, I run the audio outs directly into my main interface.)

To be precise, a "quilt" is a decorative cover. What you really want is a thick polyester "duvet". And what you really should read is an article posted here instead on how to make cheap treatment panels.

Q: Why is your iMac struggling? What is it's specs and how much RAM do you have in it?

You are over-thinking. An interface IS a soundcard; you just need one to replace the cheap junk built into your computer.

Why would you not contact Steinberg or whoever manages the licenser first?

Have you done any room treatments at all? An often-quoted figure is that 2/3rd of your 'sound' is in the room (that's why studios spend million$ building them) There are cheap techniques for creating vocal spaces. Plus you need to work on technique, especially if you're silibant.

Even the replication houses use burners unless you're willing to pay for pressing or doing large runs. It won't matter. However it's REALLY tedious to do more than a few dozen discs on your own. Check around and use a service.

There is always SOME latency (it does take time for a signal to move down the wires and be processed). But it's so small in modern interfaces that you cannot detect it. Dont worry about it.

The general rule is that audio interfaces go LAST in the chain. I've always used the following, both on my windows laptop and now my iMac: Computer ---> Projects Drive ---> Sample library drive ----> Audio Interface. Another rule is that you put firewire400 devices last as the chain slows to...

That doesn't mean he didn't get lucky for HIS voice and you got unlucky for YOUR voice. There's a reason the big studios spend million$ to build their rooms and it isn't for 'cool factor'.

Have you treated your room? Chances are that's what's causing the differences.

Motu's interfaces work in stand-alone mode (that's one of the reasons I bought my 828mkII years ago....) Not all interfaces will do this. You need to check before whipping out the plastic, as usual.