scsi or ide hard drive?

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I'm about to begin setting up my home studio. I'm tryna figure out-based on my potential set up-would I need to spring for a SCSI or will an IDE drive be sufficient.

I will be doing digital recording straight to hard drive(hiphop genre if that matters) Things I know I will need are a soundcard, CD-R,CD-ROM,mixer,keyboard,monitors and eventually a sampler and DAT recorder,I already have a drum machine and that's pretty much it.

That's a lot of equipment but I'm sure it doesn't all plug into the computer. Actually I'm not sure what plugs into what just yet.

Will a IDE drive be enough or will I need SCSI?

I will be able to afford a SCSI drive but why spend the money if I don't need it. So if anyone knows I would be glad for your advice.
 
..and you may want to consider holding off on the DAT machine.. especially if you are going straight into the computer and burning to cd.. DAT was the thing to get until pc recording got cheaper, more reliable, and easier to use.. If you are dead set on getting one.. I'd save that as the last piece of gear to buy...

Cy
 
given the state of computer recording today, a DAT , a hardware sampler and a scsi hard drive are becoming things of the past for home recording and you should get these only if you have a specific need for them.....i'd go for a nice soundcard and software setup with 10ms of latency or less and use a good software sequencer, soft synths and software samplers...depending on how many tracks you want to record at once, you may not need a mixer either...some soundcards have decent preamps on them.it all depends on how you want to do things....of course, some people prefer using a lot of external gear....i don't.....two sequencers i really like are REASON and SONAR....

anyway, just some things to consider if you haven't already.
good luck
 
I missed the DAT in your list. You'll most likely not need it unless you're talking about a portable DAT for making quality "wierd noise collecting".

Start with the computer, e.g. like the one in the thread that gischel pointed out and a soundcard that fits your needs, which may be a tricky one to know...

Sorry for the short answer but I read "SCSI or IDE" and that has been discussed a few times before, to say the least.

/Ola
 
I wasted $732 on a 40 Gig Ultra 160 Quantum SCSI HD/Adaptec card. But with the fast IDE drives now they will be more than enough.
 
ok...but

I do plan on burning CD-R's, will I also be able to do that with an IDE drive?
 
ok...help me out here

ok..I'm a newbie to this whole rercording thing. If I need a CD-burner then where does that plug into? My original question was: With the type of recording I plan on doing, which I described earlier, will a IDE hard drive be sufficient. My understanding is that a CD-ROM, CD-R,Hard drive and Zip drive will take up all slots that an IDE drive comes with. So where do I plug my soundcard into? and my mixer?

Or does the souncard and mixer plug into somewhere else besides the computer or hard drive?

nother question-The CD-Recorder isn't for burning CD's?
 
Which MOBO you buy depends on how many slots you will have to plug stuff into. For example I have the Asus A7V. I have two ATA100/ATA66 plug in's which means I can plug in two harddrives per plug in...so that gives me the option of having 4 harddrives. I then have my floppy plugin...so I can plug in two floppy drives and I have one or two IDE plugins (I am not quite sure). Whatever the case...I plugged in my CD-Rom and my CD-RW (burner) together with one cable into one of my IDE plugins. There for I still have the other IDE plugin free, if I want to add two more Cd-roms, or an order harddrive. You can also plug your burner as a slave onto your harddrive but then you have to run your harddrive in IDE which would be equivalent to ATA33. I hope this all made sense. What I would sugguest would be that you just go into a computer store and ask them a ton of questions. Stuff like this is easier to understand when someone is showing you in person:)

In regards to your soundcard...that plugs into your PCI slots. Again depending on which MOBO you buy will indicate how many of these you have...I think I have 7(?) Other things you plug into PCI slots are things like; Video card (if you have an older one...new ones are all AGP-accelerated Graphics Port...which is another plugin on your MOBo), network card, modem, etc.

I hope this help. Just another comment. If you are going to go to a computer store to talk to someone about this DON"T go to a place where they sell prebuilt stuff (like HP, compaq, etc) Go to an independent computer place that custom builds there stuff. The reason I say this is because the people at best buy and future shop, etc just want to sell you a computer which is great for doing your accounting but crap for recording. Plus someone that builds (and not just sells) computers for a living will be able to describe what all the parts do and how they work together better than someone that doesn't
 
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