What Kind Of Computer Performance?

[reflexa]

I bought a BR8 and now I am ready to get into computer recording. I'll be buying a new computer for this. I was thinking PC with a usb for input using Motu or Tascam. I'm going 1Gig of ram but am wondering what speed Hard-drive and what type. Is scsi required? The reason I ask is because I've been going to sites (Dell, Alien etc.) and customizing machines, The price seems to go up every time I reconfigure. Also what Audio Progs should I get. I want to record at 24 bit 96khz and be able to make and use loops and import samples directly from CDRoms. Thanks For Your Help, Pete

 

[Riku]

Hi Reflexa and welcome to this BBS


For my opinion scsi is not needed. You can manage with two IDE 7200 rpm Harddrives. One for a systemdisk and the other one dedicated just for audio.

When going the PC -rout for me there would be two ways to go with the software: Cakewalk or Cubase. Some guys would also advise you to go with N-tracks or Cool edit pro but I'm not familiar with those software.

One last tip: USE the search engine of this BBS. It is one of the most powerfull tools in the world that will help you to get in to this recording schait...

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Riku