Ready to spend my life savings on a new home recording system!!

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Thanks for taking the time to read this posting. My name is bob, I am a 38 year old guitarist primarly playing blues/rock. I also dig techno as well. I been using recording gear for 15 years starting with the first tascam 2 track cassette deck. I recently sold my roland 1680 and decided to get into computer recording. I just purchased a dell 1 Gigahertz PC and am ready to buy hardware/ software. I have read up on the delta 1010 as well as the Moto 2408 and don't know if it's woth spending the extra money on the moto. I pretty much made up my mine on cubase because I want to be able to collaborate online thru the rocket network.
I own a Brain Moore guitar with a 13 pin midi output and need to purchase an external device to get a killer guitar tone on tape (VG-88, POD, Johnson Jam Station, ect.) Also, I want to explore midi and will need a midi sound module. At this point, I am very confused as to what direction to go in. I know dddigidesign just came out with the pro tools interface for the PC for under $1000. Is this a better system? Any one out there who can help make understand my options would be greatly appreciated. Any guitarists who are tone fanatics please let me know the how you lay down your tracks.

Thanks a million.

Bob
 
I think Logic can also do the Rocket network thing. So you might want to check into it. (Not that I'd want to talk you out of Cubase because I like Cubase.)

Jim
 
Bobby, if you've made up your mind on cubase, you owe it to yourself to check out Steinberg's newest recording software "Nuendo". It is AMAZING!!! http://www.nuendo.com
 
Bob, when I started with PC recording I was also totally new to midi. It was a huge learning curve. I used Cubase and I can reccomendt it. My understanding is that Nuendo is more for film and video and might not be so versatile with midi editing. This might be important if midi is something you are going into. My keyboard skills are pretty bad so I also bought a Roland guitar synth. This allowed me to create midi tunes that I simply wouln't have been able to compose if I'd been plodding clumsilly away on a keyboard. I can also highly recoment the POD. The majority of people seem to say that POD is best for distorted tones and the J-station is better for clean tones. The Fostex also has had great reviews. Bottom line is: you can't really go wrong with any of them. I'm a guitarist more than a midi guy so the tone was really important to me and I think you will be happy with the POD, especially for its tone and versatility.
 
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