Sonar 4 Producer Set up

[songsj]

My PC is

Gateway P4 630 3.0
Windows XP mediacenter
1 gig ram
Audigy 2zs sound card
Standard video card

I own a Tascam 2488 and would like to track on that machine then export/import mono .wav files into my PC for mixing, I'm an old fart who likes
physical faders and knobs so I'm a little worried about the learning curve on these software programs. I think I've narrowed it down to Sonar 4 Producer.
Is this a good choice and will my PC run the program with up to 48 tracks
without over taxing the processor. Most of my tracks are live insruments,
live drums, guitars etc. Don't see myself using the midi features much, I just need a lot of tracks that can have a lot of individual effects assigned to them. Guess I'm looking for the best mixing and editing program that will run on my current PC. Is Sonar 4 the one??

 

[bonzxylophone]

Personally I'm not an expert at computer recording, but I think Sonar is a great program to record and edit sound on. The built in effects and such are rather nice and I've produced a few decent recordings (with less than optimal equiptment/mics etc) at my friend's house using Sonar 2. I found the program generally easy to use, it may look confusing at first but once you look past the clutter it's not bad.

Just don't stop learning how to use or find something new in the program every day. It's like flying an airplane, anyone could learn what the basic instruments do and their functions, but spending the extra time to learn how to use advanced gps and other advanced automated nav equiptment, then they'll make their lives easier.

I think your computer should be able to do 48 tracks, you have a good cpu, decent ram, and a pretty good sound card.

 

[acidrock]

I'm an old fart who likes
physical faders and knobs so I'm a little worried about the learning curve on these software programs.

There's lots of old farts on these boards.

Once you get used to the software you'll forget about the Tascam.

Have you investigated setting up your PC to handle audio?
Sometimes you need a little tweaking to get an off the shelf computer running properly.

Try out this site!

 

[travelin travis]

definately look into tweaking your computer for audio recording. as much as possible, try to look at software like the hardware that it's emulating. that will win half the battle. if you know how to use a hardware mixer, you can use a software mixer, it's probably just laid out different. software is similar to hardware but adds some cool things like automation, the ability to create bus's, etc.

I think sonar is a good choice. it's just ford vs. chevy. no real best out there, just what you prefer. check em all out if you can. I've been messing with cubase and sonar and am finding that I like the cubase interface better for my needs.