
pouxhawk
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Will a Hewlett Packard 7855, 1Ghz, 128meg, 60 Gig hd, DVD & CDR, with a "stinkin on board" sound card and “Windows ME” be able to do basic four or eight track recording? I don't need "state o the art" here, just basic vanilla stuff. I have analogue recording equipment at this time that works just fine and would like to eventually get into a Mac with pro-tools, but I really needed a computer for general home use. I couldn’t resist this one for 800 bucks!! I have been to the HP support several times and they don't even seem to understand the question. I can't even find out if the on board sound is capable of the "full duplex" operation that multitrack recording requires. HP said I can disable the on board audio, but it would probably mean screwing up the CDR and DVD settings. Being that I'm a relative novice to anything other than the most basic computer skills (READ: NONE), I don’t want to get into too much registry editing. If I can’t use this computer for multitrack recording , I’ll just leave it as the family computer. I suppose I can still use it for CD burning and MP3 conversions. I just won't waste money buying Cakewalk, or Cubase software. It would be a shame though, because it seems to be a “balls to the walls” fast little computer…….pouxhawk