Greetings,
I have recently been trying to resurrect my home studio. Many years ago I had Cakewalk 3.0 which I used for editing MIDI, and had a KORG M1 for my sound module. I used a Tascam 488 4 track portastudio to record guitar tracks letting the sequencer play live to mix down. Life was grand Fast forward many years later......finding that my M1 was dead, and Cakewalk 3.0 doesn't like Win7 x64 bit, the old tascam is also having some electrical issues.....it was time for some upgrades.
I purchased a Korg KRONOS which I absolutely love. Was playing around with Cakewalk SONAR Artist addition (as well as Reaper) and it seemed like SONAR was a bit easier to work with MIDI editing than repear. Also, having the ability to record digitally with either of these apps sounded nice, but I still wanted an external MTR. While googling Tascam devices I found the DP 24 (which at the time supported MIDI). Apparently I did not research enough to realize that the DP 24SD upgrade did not include midi....which is what I wound up purchasing. So it seems I am at a crossroads. I can still return the Tascam (still under 30 days) and use SONAR to do all my recording. I do have a focusrite audio interface, but was never really crazy about dealing with the latency issues of hard disk recording. OR If I could obtain a MOTU or something similar to generate and read SMPTE, perhaps I could stipe a track on the tascam with SMPTE and get Sonar to slave along to sync tone and run the KRONOS via midi? For some reason this "feels" more flexible to me but I might be missing something or thinking about all this the wrong way.
Any advice or suggestions from anyone using similar equipment or techniques? I feel like I need someone with more knowledge to help me out here.
Thanks!
I have recently been trying to resurrect my home studio. Many years ago I had Cakewalk 3.0 which I used for editing MIDI, and had a KORG M1 for my sound module. I used a Tascam 488 4 track portastudio to record guitar tracks letting the sequencer play live to mix down. Life was grand Fast forward many years later......finding that my M1 was dead, and Cakewalk 3.0 doesn't like Win7 x64 bit, the old tascam is also having some electrical issues.....it was time for some upgrades.
I purchased a Korg KRONOS which I absolutely love. Was playing around with Cakewalk SONAR Artist addition (as well as Reaper) and it seemed like SONAR was a bit easier to work with MIDI editing than repear. Also, having the ability to record digitally with either of these apps sounded nice, but I still wanted an external MTR. While googling Tascam devices I found the DP 24 (which at the time supported MIDI). Apparently I did not research enough to realize that the DP 24SD upgrade did not include midi....which is what I wound up purchasing. So it seems I am at a crossroads. I can still return the Tascam (still under 30 days) and use SONAR to do all my recording. I do have a focusrite audio interface, but was never really crazy about dealing with the latency issues of hard disk recording. OR If I could obtain a MOTU or something similar to generate and read SMPTE, perhaps I could stipe a track on the tascam with SMPTE and get Sonar to slave along to sync tone and run the KRONOS via midi? For some reason this "feels" more flexible to me but I might be missing something or thinking about all this the wrong way.
Any advice or suggestions from anyone using similar equipment or techniques? I feel like I need someone with more knowledge to help me out here.
Thanks!