computer, soundcard and midi quest.

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Well... Let me just start off by saying...
I have become accustomed to 32 track digital computer based studio with soundproof booth.
3 key's the least expensive of which I believe was Alesis qs8... Numerous sound modules DM5.. Proteus.. etc... Compressors.. hard drive recording.. adat .. dat.. I believe Elogic software... Now let's consider that I could barely afford to buy time to do tracks yet alone...work into the wee hours of the night... So I've been thinking!! Although, I produced the music and recorded the vocals in the studio.. Mainly the work was done by the engineers.. (though I had a little work with the seqeuncing programs on the computer.. mostly record, play, stop, rewind, mute track(for breakdowns), etc... Let's just say the hook was great.. So I've been debating.. I love my music and I want to do it non stop... I've been destroying the net..reading about everything : midi.. what computers.. sound cards.. mixing..etc....So I picked a name for this forem readytodothis, because I am... my questions? I'll narrow them down to sound cards and computers for now...

forget about cost... but consider that I want an affordable studio (without defining affordable :) Let's say I want to use either my pentium III or celeron one at 550 and another at 500 respectively.. both with 128mb sdram.. a 20 gigabyte drive 7200rpm ..
One with 128k level 2 cach the celeron..
the other (p3) with 512k pipeline (I've read but am not sure I believe that one form is better than the other as far as studio recording, but i'm not sure.) both were originally home/office, out of the pc's but I have the ability to alter them, and I don't want to buy a new.. I also really would like to only ahve to install at the most another hard drive and a good sound card...or dual soundcards as the case may be...but if I am leaving something out please let me know.. I guess I should say I am looking at 24 track mixer I would like to record using multiple midi hook ups.. I believe that midi interfaces help that out.. but these sound cards with multiple outs and ins are they midi( LAyla and delta 1010) does getting one of these mean I can by pass interfaces... I would like digital processing, but I'm not sure exactly the routing of the music/vocals.. mixer to computer .. sequencer(software), mixer, computer... do I get digital processors for my studio, or get a sound card with digital outs... At that point.. I'm lost.. I think my problem is that I understand midi.. but not track/patchbay hook, nor do I fully understand the computers integration into multiple tracks studio (except for the software sequencers and recording vocals to the hard drive) I guess I need to know alot .. I have a lot of mountains the only problem is the vallies in between.. For thos who will attempt to help and require a price range.. Let me say if the Layla ar delta will enable me to bypass whole bunch of midiman interfaces in order to record a lot of tracks... then I would buy it... But I am walking in a pit with a small flash light so please help!! Thank you....
Was that too long.. I know you guys like detail..
 
ahhh... you have a well put question , and it was very thought out , and your sure to get many responses.. but , crossposting is bad.. delete this post and leave the one in the newbies forum because it belongs there more anyway.. this way we can all build useful info off one thread rather than post over each other on the other forum.. :)

ps.. i didnt answer your questions becuase your out of the price range to where i could make good recomendations.. ( ie , i would recomend the cheap stuff :))

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