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chetbango
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About a month ago I visited these boards for help to spec out a new machine. I got one from ww.ibuypower.com:
P4 2.4 Ghz on ASUS board
512 mb of 1066mhz RAM
2 80Gb Western Digital Hard drives with 8mb cache
I added an audiophile 24/96 soundcard after I recieved it. The motherboard has onboard sound that cannot be used with any other card, so it is disabled.
I got a good deal on Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, so that is what I am using.
I am very happy with the sound and ease of use of this set up for audio files. I mic my amp and run all the mics through a mixer and it has better sound than I expected on guitar and vocal tracks.
SO A BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED ME SPEC THE MACHINE!!
Now for some questions...and I am really new to all this, so forgive me. I wanted to wait before I got any MIDI stuff, as I was unsure how much I would use it. Now, a month later, I am interested in learning more and doing more with MIDI. The drum tracks alone are interesting...
I cannot get the MIDI tracks to play from my speakers. In order to do this can I use an old soundblaster live card in the same machine? Will this allow Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 to get the MIDI emulation from the soundblaster and play it out the Audiophile along with the Audio Tracks?
I was able to hook up a cheapo MIDI Casio keyboard that I borrowed from a friend. It sounds marginal at best, but it doesn't allow me to play MIDI tracks out my speakers. Only weak-ass Casio sounding noise from the keyboard. I can run the audio data from the keyboard's line out to the mixer, then back into cakewalk as an audio file, but that seems counterproductive, and it is crappy Casio noise.
Would a 'real' keyboard give me the ability to get the MIDI converted and playing with the Audio files through cakewalk and the Audiophile card? Could I do this without converting the MIDI data to Audio through the keyboard line out and re-recording it as audio?
Any help in this would be much appreciated.
P4 2.4 Ghz on ASUS board
512 mb of 1066mhz RAM
2 80Gb Western Digital Hard drives with 8mb cache
I added an audiophile 24/96 soundcard after I recieved it. The motherboard has onboard sound that cannot be used with any other card, so it is disabled.
I got a good deal on Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, so that is what I am using.
I am very happy with the sound and ease of use of this set up for audio files. I mic my amp and run all the mics through a mixer and it has better sound than I expected on guitar and vocal tracks.
SO A BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED ME SPEC THE MACHINE!!
Now for some questions...and I am really new to all this, so forgive me. I wanted to wait before I got any MIDI stuff, as I was unsure how much I would use it. Now, a month later, I am interested in learning more and doing more with MIDI. The drum tracks alone are interesting...
I cannot get the MIDI tracks to play from my speakers. In order to do this can I use an old soundblaster live card in the same machine? Will this allow Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 to get the MIDI emulation from the soundblaster and play it out the Audiophile along with the Audio Tracks?
I was able to hook up a cheapo MIDI Casio keyboard that I borrowed from a friend. It sounds marginal at best, but it doesn't allow me to play MIDI tracks out my speakers. Only weak-ass Casio sounding noise from the keyboard. I can run the audio data from the keyboard's line out to the mixer, then back into cakewalk as an audio file, but that seems counterproductive, and it is crappy Casio noise.
Would a 'real' keyboard give me the ability to get the MIDI converted and playing with the Audio files through cakewalk and the Audiophile card? Could I do this without converting the MIDI data to Audio through the keyboard line out and re-recording it as audio?
Any help in this would be much appreciated.
