
pisces7378
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I have had a PC (cheap no name) that I sort of "outfitted" for home recording and I worked on it for a couple of years with Logic Audio Platinum. I just added a second 7200 rpm HDD, beefed up the RAM to 512, and stuck in a Delta-66.
Well now I am back in the US, and I just bought a new Dell for normal household use thinking that I would get my dream machine G5 Mac soon. Well some financial bullshit has happened, and I do no think that my "dream" of an Apple based super studio will not be coming true.
I am in a band now though and we are writing a lot of songs, and I just want to have SOMETHING to get these ideas out and tweak them around. I have the EXS24mkII software and Logic 5.x that I can install on this Dell. But I do NOT want to mess around with the Delta-66 anymore. I want to spend the little money I do have for this on a new MOTU 828mkII firewire interface. (please all you Delta-66 folks don't start in on any kind of, "WHAT!?!?! You don't like the Delta-66?!?!?!) It isn't that. I just want more inputs for live "jam" recording and a lot of other reasons.
My only problem is that the MOTU 828mkII is a Firewire unit and my Dell did not come with Firewire ports. How can I get this Dell to have IEEE 1394 and/or IEEE 1394-B FIrewire ports?
Now, I had NIGHTMARES installing, configuring, and just dealing with the Delta-66 PCI card. I do NOT want to get into complicated IRQ bullshit. I don't want anywhere near the headaches the Delta-66 presented.
What do you guys recomend? To summarize...
I have:
-Dell
Pent IV 2.4 gHz
512 MB DDR-RAM
1x 60 GB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows XP Home Ed.
CD-R/W
-Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro Mixer
-Rode NTK Mics
-2x AKG C 451 B Mics (Stereo Pair)
-Logic Audio Plat. 5.6
-EXS24mkII
-SONY MDR 7509 Headphones
I am buying:
-MOTU 828 mkII
I want:
-Minimum of 10 simultanious tracks recording capabilities at a 24/48kHz res.
-Minimum of 20 playback tracks at the same resolution.
-A few plug ins here and there. I will try to bus the vocals down through one Plat. Verb to save CPU power.
-Lots of simultanious samples. At least 10 tracks of sample tracks. (This is not in ADDITION to the 20 audio tracks. I mean 10 sample tracks and 10 Audio tracks to give me the above mentioned 20 tracks.)
-AS LITTE HASSLE AS POSSIBLE IN ESTABLISHING A PRACTICAL WORK FLOW!!!
I greatly appreciate your help or any tips on getting my Dell Firewire ready and any other holes that you might notce in my idea.
Thanks guys!
Mike
Well now I am back in the US, and I just bought a new Dell for normal household use thinking that I would get my dream machine G5 Mac soon. Well some financial bullshit has happened, and I do no think that my "dream" of an Apple based super studio will not be coming true.
I am in a band now though and we are writing a lot of songs, and I just want to have SOMETHING to get these ideas out and tweak them around. I have the EXS24mkII software and Logic 5.x that I can install on this Dell. But I do NOT want to mess around with the Delta-66 anymore. I want to spend the little money I do have for this on a new MOTU 828mkII firewire interface. (please all you Delta-66 folks don't start in on any kind of, "WHAT!?!?! You don't like the Delta-66?!?!?!) It isn't that. I just want more inputs for live "jam" recording and a lot of other reasons.
My only problem is that the MOTU 828mkII is a Firewire unit and my Dell did not come with Firewire ports. How can I get this Dell to have IEEE 1394 and/or IEEE 1394-B FIrewire ports?
Now, I had NIGHTMARES installing, configuring, and just dealing with the Delta-66 PCI card. I do NOT want to get into complicated IRQ bullshit. I don't want anywhere near the headaches the Delta-66 presented.
What do you guys recomend? To summarize...
I have:
-Dell
Pent IV 2.4 gHz
512 MB DDR-RAM
1x 60 GB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows XP Home Ed.
CD-R/W
-Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro Mixer
-Rode NTK Mics
-2x AKG C 451 B Mics (Stereo Pair)
-Logic Audio Plat. 5.6
-EXS24mkII
-SONY MDR 7509 Headphones
I am buying:
-MOTU 828 mkII
I want:
-Minimum of 10 simultanious tracks recording capabilities at a 24/48kHz res.
-Minimum of 20 playback tracks at the same resolution.
-A few plug ins here and there. I will try to bus the vocals down through one Plat. Verb to save CPU power.
-Lots of simultanious samples. At least 10 tracks of sample tracks. (This is not in ADDITION to the 20 audio tracks. I mean 10 sample tracks and 10 Audio tracks to give me the above mentioned 20 tracks.)
-AS LITTE HASSLE AS POSSIBLE IN ESTABLISHING A PRACTICAL WORK FLOW!!!
I greatly appreciate your help or any tips on getting my Dell Firewire ready and any other holes that you might notce in my idea.
Thanks guys!
Mike