Digital Audio Recording

[Slinky831]

HI -
I am interested in putting together a system for DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING.

I am using the MAudio's Delta1010 hardware interface (http://midiman.com/products/m-audio/delt1010.php) and emagic's "Logic Audio Platium" (http://www.emagic.de/english/products/logic/lap.html) software.

What components would maximize compatability and performance in digital audio recording?

advice with these components specificly:
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-motherboard (VIA has caused problems with digital audio recording)
-processor (athlon or intel?) (I heard intel cpu above 1.6ghz may hay have physical problems in the CPU?????)
-memory (brand? amount?)

...hard drives (I already own and plan to install the OS my 40GB IBM ATA100 drive -- and then use my SCSI 18GB 10,000 as the drive the digital audio data will be recorded to.)
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Thanx,
Andrew

 

[drstawl]

>hard drives (I already own and plan to install the OS my 40GB IBM ATA100 drive -- and then use my SCSI 18GB 10,000 as the drive the digital audio data will be >recorded to.)

I would think that this would work better with the SCSI as your O/S drive and the ATA100 as the audio data drive as SCSI is better suited to numerous smaller non-contiguous read/writes, may be much faster (capable of more bandwidth) than the IDE drive in terms of sustained transfer but is less than half the size of the 40. This would perhaps come into play when attempting to transfer large numbers of tracks at 24/96 simultaneously as in recording/monitoring on all 20 tracks from a pair of synced Delta 1010s. But if the IDE can support the I/O of whatever soundcard you've got installed, then a more expensive, smaller drive is a bad idea compared to getting a sufficiently fast drive that is both much cheaper and much larger.