Studio questions

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DiverDave

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Hey guys,
Im new to the forum and excited to see what you guys have to say. Im building a home studio and the equipment I have so far is a Yamaha kx61 DAW controller / keyboard, line 6 pod, Yamaha DTX Explorer digital drums, mini crate amp with usb 2.0 recording function, legit cubase AI 4, and a ton of "not so legit" software (including sonar 8 etc). Anyway, the question I have is what type of computer to run everything. The choices are a dell p4 2.4 ghz 1 gb ram, or a server m/b running two - xenon 2ghz procs, raided hd's and 2 gb ECC ram. My plan would be to put my Audigy 2 card into one of the computers and record with that one. So the question is will the dell single proc computer be enough for multi track recording, or should I just go ahead and use the server m/b. There would be nothing else running on either machine, I just dont want to use up my server stuff if its going to be overkill. Thanks ahead of time for any advice you guys have. And any comments or advice about the setup would be appreciated too.
 
As this is your first post, just a heads up. You'll find many people on here are not friendly towards those using cracked software. And honestly, there's enough good free stuff out there, you don't need "the not so legit" stuff.

Now on to your question. Without more info, I'll make a guess. The Dell will be enough if you're just recording yourself playing guitar and a bunch of MIDI stuff. Maybe you could provide more info about what you plan to be recording. And you probably won't like the results of the Crate recorded direct (USB).
 
^^^ what he said

but also . . . the Dell will actually be fine for multi-track recording as well.
 
bryantx512 said:
As this is your first post, just a heads up. You'll find many people on here are not friendly towards those using cracked software. And honestly, there's enough good free stuff out there, you don't need "the not so legit" stuff.

Now on to your question. Without more info, I'll make a guess. The Dell will be enough if you're just recording yourself playing guitar and a bunch of MIDI stuff. Maybe you could provide more info about what you plan to be recording. And you probably won't like the results of the Crate recorded direct (USB).
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Thanks for the heads up man. No worries about the non-legit software, Ill admit I did try them out, but I fear that something will go wrong and screw up a project with bad software, so ive decided just to go with cubase ai4 and mackie tracktion, which I own (they came with my crate amp and yamaha keyboard). My plans are to record up to 2 guitars on top of each other, drums (probably with a vsti plugin), bass, and maybe a couple of midi tracks. Thanks again for your response
 
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