What was the first computer combo that worked really sweet for you?

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For me the whole computer recording thing was a joke at first. The old Mac performa 405 wasn't the height of DA/AD but the onboard mic was a plus. Then the 486 Ibm could barely sequence. The 333mhz E-machine was a bit better and hey I could make out the sounds. But it wasn't until the:
Tyan Mobo AMD 450 K63 with an E-mu APS and dual drives that I said WOW, this is better that my 4 track!


How about you? Do you remember when computers became a viable alternative?
 
That would be a P-II-450/128MB/13GB HD/16MB video/4x CDRW/GINA soundcard/win98SE.

It's still running side by side with my P4 and I use it to run an old version of Cakewalk for MIDI composition.

The Win95/P-90 I had previously "worked" but not "sweet".

But then I made music on my Commodore C-64. Even wrote a sequencer in Motorola 6502 Machine Language before MIDI existed. Too bad the synth it triggered sounded like an ice cream truck on a bad day.
 
I did'nt go PC until the PII's came out.{500MHz} But even then, Logic would choke it. I went to a PIII 800Mhz a couple years later and still did'nt have the performance I was hoping for. It wasn't until the P4's came out that I saw a vast improvement.
 
PII 350, 128 ram, win 2k, Delta44, Cubase 5.1
I wasnt recording on PC before this.. I use to record on Fostex D80! :)

Now I'm with P4 2.2, 1gig ram, dual booth winXP, Nuendo Audiolink96 Multiset (RME), Cubase SX and Nuendo.
 
Yeah it seems to be in the 350-500 range that things seemed to smooth out a lot.

Geez Stealthtech an 800 wasn't doing it for you at all?

I still record on my trusty 1ghz as my main rig. My net puter is a 700 and could easily take my studio back over if needed.
 
AMD Duron 700Mhz with 256mb ram and a KT133a mobo. Cubase 5.1 worked really well on it, Acid 4 on the other hand choked.
 
My first dual! a 2x PII 300 with 120MB and 2 scsi disks. With a creamware pulsar you could handle recording 6 tracks while playing back 4 (didn't had more convertors, so that may not have been the limit). Playback of about 20 tracks in 16/44.1 with internal mixing and a bunch of effects on the pulsar was no problem.
 
My new Beast kicks ass...so far :).
Athlon XP1800, with XPPRO OS...512mb ddrram, this I consider to be a minimum to record with.

If my last machine didn't have a horrible evil VIA chipset in it, I'd probably still be using it. But it freaked out with my delta soundcard. What a drag, buying a soundcard worth more than the computer, only to find out it won't work until I bought a new computer.

I remember messing around with sound on computers as far back as my atari 800 xl (I think thats what it was), programming stuff in basic...then when I got my atari520ST, wow what a step up in the world. haha.
 
jake-owa said:
Yeah it seems to be in the 350-500 range that things seemed to smooth out a lot.

Geez Stealthtech an 800 wasn't doing it for you at all?

I still record on my trusty 1ghz as my main rig. My net puter is a 700 and could easily take my studio back over if needed.
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Well, Logic is demanding. Of course it was fine with limited tracks and plugs but when I needed a lot of plugs and 24 tracks it would get a little sluggish. Now the P4 2.4gig doesn't even blink.
 
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