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I'm having trouble deciding what to go for next. I'd like to spend about $1500 now and some more in a few months to build up a decent sequencing & recording capability.
So far I have a no-frills Korg Trinity, a Technics electric piano and a PII 200 computer (64M ram) with a defective sound card and a CDRW.
I sequence OK I think on the Trinity, but have never done it on a PC and get the feeling it would be a lot easier on the PC.
My objective is to sequence on a PC and to control the keys from there and to mix and record the keys and some vocals into something. Then from that something, master and burn a CD.
I have considered PC recording, but really like the idea of using something like the Korg D8/D16 or one of the Roland HD rec. units that I've seen. I guess my dilema is that if I go for a stand-alone recording unit, my impression is that I'll still need some expensive sequencing software to be able to sequence on the PC. And I will still need to use some software and cables and possibly some converter to get my stand-alone units stuff back to the PC to go to my PC's internal CDRW. Am I nuts in making these assumptions?
On the other hand, from reading this site, I get the impression that if I try to just do it all on my PC that I should probably upgrade my PC (it has a 3GB EIDE drive), get something like Cubase and could still be faced with PC weirdness problems.
I'm guessing that in either case, I should at least get a decent sound card for my PC and maybe a small mixer - or am I missing something or looking at this crookedly?
Confused_And_Repressed_In_DC
So far I have a no-frills Korg Trinity, a Technics electric piano and a PII 200 computer (64M ram) with a defective sound card and a CDRW.
I sequence OK I think on the Trinity, but have never done it on a PC and get the feeling it would be a lot easier on the PC.
My objective is to sequence on a PC and to control the keys from there and to mix and record the keys and some vocals into something. Then from that something, master and burn a CD.
I have considered PC recording, but really like the idea of using something like the Korg D8/D16 or one of the Roland HD rec. units that I've seen. I guess my dilema is that if I go for a stand-alone recording unit, my impression is that I'll still need some expensive sequencing software to be able to sequence on the PC. And I will still need to use some software and cables and possibly some converter to get my stand-alone units stuff back to the PC to go to my PC's internal CDRW. Am I nuts in making these assumptions?
On the other hand, from reading this site, I get the impression that if I try to just do it all on my PC that I should probably upgrade my PC (it has a 3GB EIDE drive), get something like Cubase and could still be faced with PC weirdness problems.
I'm guessing that in either case, I should at least get a decent sound card for my PC and maybe a small mixer - or am I missing something or looking at this crookedly?
Confused_And_Repressed_In_DC
