This is what I have; This is what I need; What am I leaving out; Does this all work?

  • Thread starter Thread starter f. lai
  • Start date Start date
F

f. lai

New member
I have (some not all) and/or will have the following:

Yamaha p80 piano/keyboard (MIDI capable)
Clavia Nord Electro 73 (MIDI capable)
MacBeth M3X analogue synth module (MIDI capable)
Arp Solina String Ensemble (NOT MIDI capable)
MIDI controller

Monitor Speakers (model undecided)
Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

Sonar XL
FXpansion DR-008 Soft Drum Machine
Windows XP
Norton AntiVirus

Tower Case (model undecided)
Video Card (model undecided)
Audio Card (model undecided)
512 MB RAM
3 GHz Processor (they'll be out soon enough)
80 GB Hard Drive (model undecided)
Adaptable Motherboard (model to be determined)
Monitor (model undecided- probably LCD 17"+)
Plextor 16/10/40A CD Writer (from other PC)
Creative 52X CD Drive (from other PC)
Keyboard (model undecided)
Mouse (model undecided)
Fan (model undecided)
Floppy Drive (model undecided)
56K Modem (model undecided)


Questions:

1. Does everything look in order for a good working system for just Audio and Video?

2. What am I leaving out?

3. What cables do I need?

4. Can I get an audio card that will have the mic pre's in it and will have all the in's and outs to get the job for complete editing and recording (eliminating the need for an external mixer)?

5. What are the advantages/disadvantages of getting 2 processors instead of one in use with Sonar?

6. What are the advantages of having 2 video monitors in use with Sonar, and how great is this advantage?

Thank you in advance.
 
1. At first sight everything sounds OK, but a lot depends on what sound card you're gonna use. If you want to record also several tracks, a mixer isn't unnecesarry luxury. Let us know what you soundcard you're intending to buy, and then we can talk about that.

2. a mixer...

3. XLR, jack-jack, Midi:D

4. Euhm, I'm no specs expert. use the search option, and maybe look for the Guillemont Isis, of a Delta card.

5. don't know about that one

6. Well you're overview is much more clear that way.
 
For video work, you're gonna need a HELLUVA lot more than 80 gig!!!

55 minutes of uncompressed DV video is around 90 gigs.


Bruce
 
I read this information on DV, is this incorrect?

"DV creates 3.6 to 3.7 Megabytes of data per second. One minute, 222 Megabytes. 10 Minutes: 2.2 Gigabytes. A 90 minute, feature-length movie would fill 20 Gigabytes of hard drive space in final edited form."

Either way, you're probably right. An additional 100 GB hard drive would help quite a bit.

Also is a Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro a good mixer for my purposes?

Thanks.
 
That DV spec was for compressed video... uncompressed is as I mentioned....

I know because I'm dealing with DV video right now -- and I should have bought a much bigger hard drive with my comp.

Bruce
 
OK- Can you tell me all the disadvantages of compressed video then? How much would be "enough" for a harddrive? 300 GB?

Thanks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top