Hi guys. First post here. Sorry if this has been answered before but I searched and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.
I'm primarily a guitar and double bass player. But I'll be off to college by fall and I can't carry all my existing gear to a dorm room. So I thought of putting together a small and portable rig to just keep myself occupied and learn the ins and outs of computer-based music.
First off, I'm using a Samsung Series 3 ultrabook. Core i5-2430M @ 2.4Ghz, 4 GB RAM, Realtek drivers and I'll have Win10 running by August. I'll probably be using this for the next 2 years.
I've also messed around with FL Studio 9 I few times, and although I enjoyed the new experience, the cluttered interface really put me off. Looking around, I found Ableton Live's neat and minimalist layout to the best of my liking.
I've been doing some research and this is what I've settled on:
DAW: Ableton Live
MIDI Key: Novation Launchkey Mini (comes with Ableton Lite - I can later make use of their student discount and upgrade it)
Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett Solo (comes with the Novation Bass Station VST, which seemed useful since Lite doesn't have any synths. Plus the Loopmaster samples should be useful to get me started.)
All this and a decent pair of headphones (most probably the ATH-M50x) just about fits in my small budget.
So what do you guys think of this? I'm not expecting amazing quality at this price point and neither do I need to since I'll mostly be learning stuff for the next couple of years. However, I do want decent audio quality, durability, portability and low latency (I checked for latency with the DCP Latency Checker app and I seem to be okay since it's under 2000 μs).
I'll appreciate any help I can get. Thanks a lot.
Soham.
PS: I've read that the audio interface will help with latency issues so I looked them up and picked the one I thought would best fit my needs but I have no idea how to connect the Launchkey to one as it only has a USB port. Do I even need one, then?
I'm primarily a guitar and double bass player. But I'll be off to college by fall and I can't carry all my existing gear to a dorm room. So I thought of putting together a small and portable rig to just keep myself occupied and learn the ins and outs of computer-based music.
First off, I'm using a Samsung Series 3 ultrabook. Core i5-2430M @ 2.4Ghz, 4 GB RAM, Realtek drivers and I'll have Win10 running by August. I'll probably be using this for the next 2 years.
I've also messed around with FL Studio 9 I few times, and although I enjoyed the new experience, the cluttered interface really put me off. Looking around, I found Ableton Live's neat and minimalist layout to the best of my liking.
I've been doing some research and this is what I've settled on:
DAW: Ableton Live
MIDI Key: Novation Launchkey Mini (comes with Ableton Lite - I can later make use of their student discount and upgrade it)
Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett Solo (comes with the Novation Bass Station VST, which seemed useful since Lite doesn't have any synths. Plus the Loopmaster samples should be useful to get me started.)
All this and a decent pair of headphones (most probably the ATH-M50x) just about fits in my small budget.
So what do you guys think of this? I'm not expecting amazing quality at this price point and neither do I need to since I'll mostly be learning stuff for the next couple of years. However, I do want decent audio quality, durability, portability and low latency (I checked for latency with the DCP Latency Checker app and I seem to be okay since it's under 2000 μs).
I'll appreciate any help I can get. Thanks a lot.
Soham.
PS: I've read that the audio interface will help with latency issues so I looked them up and picked the one I thought would best fit my needs but I have no idea how to connect the Launchkey to one as it only has a USB port. Do I even need one, then?
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