A little help for a newbie setup please

[born2die]

Ok I am now starting to mess around with recording etc after a few years of just piano playing and I have invested in some new keyboard gear but I am now wondering if I should invest a little more to help me get to grips with mixing etc.

Currently I have a fatar master keyboard, A korg nx5r module, a roland juno-g synth on order and a pair of edirol ma7 monitors coming from ebay (very cheap and I will be upgrading to the ma15's in due course. Now I am looking at recording what I play I know that I can just use the roland's sequencer and then transfer to pc but I like the hands on sliders route so I was thinking of getting a zoom mrs4 4 track recorder to help me on my way to understanding recording and mixing.

if I went down this road would I be able to then mixdown onto the pc or a minidisk player etc for further tweaking or would I be better just recording on the roland transfering to pc and mixing from there.

any advice would be very welcome and thanks for reading this post

tristian

 

[Track Rat]

I'd stick with a PC all the way for recording/ sequencing/ mixing, etc. You could record just the midi and playback to a high quality sound card for mix down or play real time to the sound card. You could record multitrack there and mix back into the PC. Then make your CD-R in the smae machine. It's one stop shopping.

 

[born2die]

Hi thanks for the quick reply. I had thought about going the pc route but I would prefer to keep it hardware as far as I can I am already learning how to make my own beats, backings etc so I would like to keep it as simple as possible and I think that going pc only will give me to many choices to start with and I am a hardware junkie afterall. again many thanks for the quick response

tristian