setting up a digital system for 16 tracks

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Hi everyone,

I would like to know what equipment I will need to setup my home system for 16 tracks of digital. I have a delta 1010 and went out and bought another one, but I now find out that you can't hook up the two together using one computer. It looks like I'm going to have to sell these.

System:
A bit board
Ram: 384
Processor: athlon 1000

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good system with out spending to much money.

thanks
 
I appologize if you already know this...

The number of tracks you're able to work with is not limited by the number of inputs and outputs on your soundcard(s), but by your recording software and computer horsepower. I only mention this because requiring 16 simultaneous inputs in a home studio is generally a very rare thing....if you're to that point, perhaps it would be time to look into a standalone hard drive recorder?

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thank you for the info, I am using vegas which has unlimited tracks. The reason I want 16 tracks is because I'm wanting to build a recording studio. I just thought that 16 tracks would be good to strart off with. I will be recording bands. I just wanted to get some info on what would be my best to achieve this.
 
I'm told that you can use 2 C-Ports simultaneously - you can find them for about 400 buck each.
 
Yes, you can use two C-Ports and that would give you 16 inputs (20 including the digital ins), but you don't need 16 inputs to record 16 tracks on your computer unless you want to record 16 tracks simultaneously:confused:

This would also give 20 outputs, so if you have a mixer with at least 20 channels, you could do your mixing on an external console. I'm guessing there aren't too many people doing it that way because it would be fairly expensive for only 16 tracks. If you mix in software instead, you can get many more tracks without the expense of a large console.

Delta 1010 is an excellent sound card. If it were me, I'd keep it, and just mix in software.

Twist
 
My first DAW had no problem at all recording and playing 16 24 bit tracks. It was a 300mhz win95, 128 megs and a Dakota card. That part apparently doesn't take that much power. However i was mixing analog, not in the box.
Cheers
Wayne
 
I personally use a Frontier Designs Dakota card (http://www.frontierdesign.com/prevIndex.htm) . With it I can take in up to 18 tracks of Digital, no problem. I tend to use my system more for recording my band's practices these days, so I am always running at least 16 tracks. Of course, I have a digital mixer for 8 of the channels, a A/D/A converter for the next 8. The 2 S/PDIF Channels are occasionally fed from a Roland VS840, which can be used as a submixer for 4 inputs to 2 channels in the computer.

That's:

Dakota
Fostex VM200 Digital Mixer (8 tracks)
Fostex VC8 A/D/A Converter (8 tracks)
Roland VS840 Hard Disk Recorder (2 tracks)

All fed either through a patch bay directly, or via a Mackie CR-1604VLZ mixer, then recorded into Cakewalk Sonar v2 at 16-bit or 24-bit
 
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