Kick Butt Set Up?

[ohtu02]

Having to have been away from music/recording/mixing for 3 years has been tough enough but now I want to build my studio back up and I'm not sure what software/set up I should go after. Things change so fast. Believe it or not, up until 2000 I had an Atari 1040 with an old Cubase 2.0 for sequencing. It was running man drum, bass, wave/sound modules and samplers and I sync'd it to a Roland VS880 so I would have 8 tracks of digital recording. Never had a crash/lock up or any lag. It actually worked great for what I was doing. Anyway, had to get rid of everything and bla, bla. I've demo'd FLStudio and it seems to really tap my 733/PIII processor. To make an already long story short, is there such a set up these days where I can do everything I mentioned above on one PC? I would like at least 8 tracks of audio recording with 24+ sequencing tracks and are there enough plug ins etc for drum/bass/wave/sound modules? I'm mostly into techno/dance/hiphop/ but like to ocassionally record my acoustic guitar for some melo/ambient stuff. If I need a faster computer, so be it. What's the killer set up?

Thanks, Daniel

 

[wheelema]

Daniel,

You may as well ask what is the best religion.

Asus motherboard w/800mhz FSB Intel P4 processor running at 3ghz or higher, 512MB ram, (2) 80GB Ultra-IDE 7,200rpm 8MB cache, dual monitors.

RME Multiface w/PCI card

... or ....

MOTU 2408MK3

Now, pardon me while I duck.

 

[Chris Tondreau]

You used the older version of Cubase. Check out the NEW Cubase SX 2. It will be perfect for what you want. Steinberg set the standard for VST technology, ASIO - both protocols that all the other platforms have since adopted. As you know, it started off as a sequencing program. They've totally built on that over the years, added top-notch audio, VST instruments - the whole deal.

For hip-hop/dance/techno, it is probably impossible to beat.

Chris

... also ducking, now....look.... here come the Reason fans.... uh, oh... here comes Sonar.....ProTools......holy, crow......