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First off Hi! i am new to this board but what i have read over the last few days has been very helpfull.Now on to my question. I have been running a Roland vs880-ex to do my recording but i want to transfer that into my production studio and build a Computer based DAW for the recording studio. I thought i had everything figured out untill i started reading this forum. Hear is what i am thinking about buying

Pentium 4 1.7 Processor
Pentium 4 motherboard (not sure what type)
full tower case with 6 bays and 400 watt power supply
Two 75 gig hard drives
cd-rw drive
cd drive
1.44 floppy drive
I wasent going to get a video card but now i am not sure if i need one?
For the interface i am getting the Event Electronics USB 8 chanel Mixer/Interface
and because i am getting that and it connects directly thru the USB port do i need a sound card?
Also will i need any external da/ad converters or will the digital interface i buy suffice. Also do you prefer Cakewalk pro audio deluxe 9.0 or Cubase vst 5.0?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
First of all you should always pick your software first before buying any hardware at all. Cubase and Logic are much more professional programs then Cakewalk and do offer a lot more, butt if you don't need all the blows and whistles just a simple recording then Cakewalk would suit you better. The best thing would be to download a demo of each and try it out, if you don't have access to a computer go to your local music store they'll have it for sure. As for sound card some come with AD/DA on them some don't so you'll have to buy external converters it al depends on your I/O needs and budget. As for P4 I don't know - it might be a little bit to advances for other software to catch up, check with the software manufacturer first. BTW I'm a Mac user not PC so you should talk to PC experts about your system configurations.
 
for starters you MUST have a sound and a video card of some kind to hear and see. If you are serious about recording then a good card, multicleint and multiple inputs do multitrack in the studio. If you are going to build your daw then look at the specs of the respected DAW "manufacturers". Wave Digital for one and there are others. Audio apps need a high powered computer but also are very unstable so sometimes the latest greatest isn't necessarily the best. I used the specs at wave to put together my Daw.
software wise there's kind of two worlds of digital products. Cubase Logic....(the world of ASIO and VST) and Cakewalk (the world of Direct Xand Windows Media)and of course Pro Tools. If your interests run towards Techno and sample based music cubase/logic seems to be the way to go but nothing can be done on one system that can't be done on the other.
I'm not sure what your interface is but recording is way too intense a process to use a USB port.
PC based Digital Audio is not for the faint of heart.....so research research and research your oprions before you go makes a lot of difference down the road

Good Luck!
 
why get a p4 when a PIII 1ghz system will probably out perform with most music software? ..if you're not using a laptop, why go usb?....the PCI sound cards seem to be the most stable and have the greatest driver support......check out a demo of SONAR, if u r thinking about using CUBASE.
 
well i was looking at a pentium 4 setup because i was under the impression that "The latest is the greatest" if i can do what i need to do on a pentium 3 i will surely do that. it is far Less cheaper. As far as the Usb digital interface goes i chose that because it is a digital 8 channel mixer and because it has record/play/fastforward/rewind buttons right on the unit and i as you might be able to tell am quite new to the world of computer based recording. I like the more hands on approach rather then pointing and clicking. Besides it makes me feel more "Profesional" LOL! Would you recomend the Aardvark direct pro 24/24 over the event electronics unit i was looking at? And What is it about USB that is not as stable as a pci card. Thank you everybody for all the info . you are life savers
 
Data goes in and out of your computer. Audio Data i.e. sound wav files etc are very large and need all the help they can get to make PC audio work. The sound card is how this is done generally although USB devices may work in some situations especially things like faders and MIDI data that don't require much speed. I use the soundscape Mixtreme and heartily endorse it. Lately two manufacturers have gone out of business so in general I would go with herd for audio cards. MAudio sells lots of cards and I have heard good things about AardVark but I couldn't buy a card called Aardvark. The masses in general use cakewalk as evidenced by the number of posts on the Cakewald forum.
Also be sure to check what it would take to make the sound card hook up to the Roland box. it would be possible to sync them together and expand your recording possibilities as well as dump your data for editing and mixing and effects.
 
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