What kind of setup would suit me?

[Kelane]

Hi, i'm the new guy here. i'll skip the formalities and just shoot it:


i'm thinking about getting a finale 2007 for my own home studio.

the system requirements for the program are:

Windows 2000/XP. Garritan sounds supported in Windows XP only.
CD or DVD-ROM drive.
800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
Minimum 256MB RAM (1GB or more recommended for optional use of Garritan sounds / Kontakt Player: more RAM = more available sounds). 200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 800MB is required for all Garritan sounds.


so, what i figure i would need is some more ram and some kind of a midi keyboard with it with something like 4 octaves. i think i'd also need a new soundcard, but i have no idea what to get nowadays. also what kind of motherboard do i need ?

i also need to be able to record guitars and possibly drums, bass and vocals etc., so i need low latency and plenty or hard drive space.

oh and one peculiarity is that i'd need a keyboard i can tune to diffrent intonations. (i.e. Just Intonation)

so, any suggestions?

 

[dementedchord]

$ .02

try doing a search first..... no apologies needed as a newbie but tyr finding out some more in generalized sense then when you have question its a bit more specific and some one will undoubtable answer... as to finale' i've not used it but a buddy used to have a copy some years ago... as memory serves it was a notation packageonly... at that time i think... may have changed somewhat as lots of progs that were midi only now do audio and vice versa... good luck.... see ya round the playground....

 

[Kelane]

try doing a search first..... no apologies needed as a newbie but tyr finding out some more in generalized sense then when you have question its a bit more specific and some one will undoubtable answer... as to finale' i've not used it but a buddy used to have a copy some years ago... as memory serves it was a notation packageonly... at that time i think... may have changed somewhat as lots of progs that were midi only now do audio and vice versa... good luck.... see ya round the playground....

ok, absolutely no offense, i should've figured out running a search first myself.


the new finale has a thing called 'garrison sound orchestra'. it's a pretty convincing classical orchestra sound bank, i think.

i'll get back to this a bit later. (that is i'll run a search and get more specific)