Computer for creating audio and edit hd plus graphics

[BLP]

I need a computer that I can

1. produce, record and mix music with FL STUDIO, REASON, AND ADOBE AUDITION 3

2. I need to be able to run CREATIVE SUITE 5- MASTER COLLECTION >> http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/mastercollection/ for video production and graphic designing

Which includes

Photoshop CS5 Extended
Illustrator CS5
InDesign CS5
Acrobat 9 Pro
Flash Catalyst CS5
Flash Professional CS5
Flash Builder 4 Standard
Dreamweaver CS5
Fireworks CS5
Contribute CS5
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
After Effects CS5
Soundbooth CS5
Adobe OnLocation CS5
Encore CS5
Bridge CS5
Device Central CS5

Mainly for me to web design, make album covers, party flyers,
EDIT HD footage for music videos, short films, documentaries.


Can I do all this on ONE COMPUTER?

http://www.gateway.com/programs/pseries/index.php?cmpid=topnav_computers CHECK This ONE OUT.

It will not be used for gaming. just audio production video production and graphic design.

Will I need to purchase other external hard drives to be on safe side?

OPINIONS? GREATLY APPRECIATED.

 

[TimOBrien]

I've always used all my DAW computers for graphics.
(I used to run a graphics studio that pumped out 10million catalogs a year)

Audio and video is far more stressful on a CPU than graphics programs.

My main DAW right now is an ancient Gateway M520, single-core 2.8Ghz with 2Gb ram.
Daisy-chained to my Glyph firewire drive and Motu828mkII, I've had ZERO problems.

(You should, however, try to find out if the firewire chips in there are Texas Instruments - the required chips for all firewire audio interfaces. My M520 has them, but I don't know about the current laptops....)

 

[BLP]

Can anybody else help with this question?

 

[oretez]

Can anybody else help with this question?

What kind of response do you want? Yes? No?

not trying to be a dick here but chances of anyone stumbling across this forum and willing to respond actually having that specific computer platform and that specific list of apps is pretty astronomical.

for now I'm so 'OK' with CS3 (the elements I have installed, despise Adobes 'bridge' architecture) that 'upgrading' to CS-x+ etc is a horrifying idea. While I probably have the skill set to do both static and animated (including vid) graphics suitable for Web/inter/intra net deployment I lack mind set to position them effectively in a seach engine social network dominated market (and have enough experience to know that I'm old enough that this is not going to be an easy hurdle to master)

So while I'm a big believer of 'cheap' (if effective) and use computers I have for extensive audio, video and graphics work (and have been using computers for this stuff for over 20 years) I have no functional, direct, yes/no, response to your question.

rest, succinct, answer is: Maybe!

 

[oretez]

while, generally, I applaud the concept of select software first then find hardware that supports it, based on 20+ yr. experience with Adobe it is doubtful that I'd recommend any gateway machine to run CS5 dependent enterprise

that said one of the machines on which I depend that is, as much as possible, set up to support both audio, graphics & animation dates from 2001 and physically max's @ 1 gig RAM, is single processor CPU weighting in at a whopping 1.8 gHz . . . it has been road hard, put up wet; so obviously has a decent physical build; there is stuff I do not do on it at all (like surf the web), but it can be Networked (left to run for days at a time while rendering vid @ 9 frame/sec) to assist in tasks can't execute in 'real time'. But I evolved the way I work based on getting paid for what I do starting more then 20 yr. ago . . . if I started today, yesterday, a year ago, two years ago recomendations would be entirely different.

it is doubtful one can legally acquire CS3 at the moment, nor is there necessarily any reason to. I find CS5 to be, for me, a steaming pile of pooh primarily because of the way work process evolved to allow me to be competitive over a period of 20 yr. Neither starting point, nor evolution could be the same now. While it might seem like a subtle, and unnecessary point, I am not saying gateways (in general) or CS5 (in general) is/are steaming piles of pooh . . . but marketers of both have evolved their product in ways that diverges from my needs based on how my work process has evolved.

But off the cuff general recomendation would be to find a cost effective custom assembled (you don't really custom build the bastards) hardware platform, stripped of as much bloat as possible

even then you run into an unavoidable compromise between audio support and graphics 'acceleration', nearly every configuration that supports adequate OpenGL is going to face potential audio hiccups . . . at this point it is nature of the beast (as one half assed specific example)

so even even knowing software you want to support is not adequate for practical short winded (& functional) response . . . we have to have some idea of both specific goals and more importantly 'how' you work

way more info then you either want to provide or to which 'we' want to listen (for free, I actually get paid to consult on these types of issues) . . . So?

answer is Maybe!

good luck

 

[TimOBrien]

What kind of response do you want? Yes? No?

not trying to be a dick here but chances of anyone stumbling across this forum and willing to respond actually having that specific computer platform and that specific list of apps is pretty astronomical.

I guess he didn't actually read my reply.

Let me be a little clearer: YES A DAW WILL RUN THOSE APPS.

That plain enough?

Like I said I only produced 10million catalogs a year and ran a graphics studio....

 

[oretez]

yeah, but I'm also pretty sure based on what I've seen my nephews (and for that matter my brother) buy to abuse that it is possible to buy computer hardware that might have a problem doing anything

in a very general way I do not think one needs a very highly spec'd computer to do both audio & video work commercially. Caveats tend to concern internet connection (while even with no direct internet access the fact that computers in the studio are networked can cause problems, with Audio tasks. Not insurmountable problems and not anything, that as a rule is brand specific, but ability to manage a network is handy if your systems are networked), and avoiding game (gamer) spec'd vid cards

pretty sure I do not have any computer platforms newer then three years (three and a half now) and on a daily basis use hardware that is 9 yr. old. Right now, end of summer is sargasso sea doldrums for audio work (as I refrained from doing any hardcore sound reinforcement or intense live recording this year) so I've got a half dozen graphics intensive projects running of machines primarily meant for audio work and reviewing tracks recorded a year ago (8/29/09) for overdubs and finish vocals come Sept. during time not posting here and working of graphics, etc.

machine he listed might work fine, my experience with very specific hardware recommendations (even an API 3124) is that a month later the client is beating my door in with a baseball bat, unless I'm handson with installation and shakedown

My nephew with a yr. old quad core 64 bit 8gig (each core something like 3.2 gHz) attempting to 'get into' Anime is currently quite angry with me because his system is stumbling at tasks that he thinks I'm 'blazing' through and I, for some reason won't tell him the secrets. The fact that I don't 'do' Anime (specifically) and that for the past two yr. I'm not sure he has said a single polite utterance to me, even when I mildly suggested some trouble shooting approaches for problems he was having on his 'blazing muthr fkng system', seems to have eluded him as a reason why I might want to retain secrets I don't possess in the first place

so short answer remains: Lot's of people do it, Maybe you can to (if you hold your mouth just right

 

[oretez]

I guess he didn't actually read my reply.

Let me be a little clearer: YES A DAW WILL RUN THOSE APPS.

That plain enough?

Like I said I only produced 10million catalogs a year and ran a graphics studio....

since the take out life I rent is still a half hour away

didn't respond initially because though your answer pretty well cover'd it

but? did you use the specific hardware platform with his specific list of software apps?

and don't mention that because I think that with a certain level of experience it actually makes all that much difference . . . but a difference between hobby and commercial is not even, so much, which tools you use, but in how you define those tools. While I find certain Adobe offerings to pretty much essential I have also struggled with them for more then a decade because, as a client (since one does not 'own' commercial software the relationship is 'client' not consumer) they have made integrating my software tools more, not less, convenient and are relatively indifferent to my concerns (all the evidence of that is the Adobe sponsered forum, if anything else is required)