Best desktop specs for the music indusrty

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Somexone75

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I was wondering if I could get some input on what hardware I should use for piecing together a new desktop for doing music recording in the studio.
 
Good Sound Card.

Quad Core

2GB Ram

I'll post some links from new egg soon... :D:D

Do we have a budget???
 
Somexone75 said:
I was wondering if I could get some input on what hardware I should use for piecing together a new desktop for doing music recording in the studio.
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vk3fcll said:
Good Sound Card.

Quad Core

2GB Ram

I'll post some links from new egg soon... :D:D

Do we have a budget???
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Here we go :D

Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131196

Hard Drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136178

Ram - 2GB maybe 4GB??? - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211066

CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017

DVD - Lightscribe Burner - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151155

Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112025

PSU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817339012

Sound Card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829118109

Video Card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150247

:D:D:D

Anything else??? :confused::confused:
 
I would find a sound card that supports has midi inputs/outputs. If you're doing studio recording, you'll need something to hook mics into like an m-box, unless you want to go directly from your mixer board to your comp, not sure exactly how to do that, but someone here probably will.
 
thermophilis said:
I would find a sound card that supports has midi inputs/outputs. If you're doing studio recording, you'll need something to hook mics into like an m-box, unless you want to go directly from your mixer board to your comp, not sure exactly how to do that, but someone here probably will.
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OK, well i would get a thing called a firepod... for school the Light + Sound team have one connected via firewire (i think). Then you get software called Sonar.

but if you need help finding anything else - i'm happy to help.

Edit - the only thing i can find is really SPDIF outputs... anyone else able to find a MIDI output / input sound card???

this is the other one i found - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829127002
 
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Aren't most modern MIDI devices connected via USB? My synthesizer is...
And I'm not quite sure if sound-editing programs can take advantage of four cores, a fast c2d might be a better call? Correct me if need be.
 
hackapelite said:
Aren't most modern MIDI devices connected via USB? My synthesizer is...
And I'm not quite sure if sound-editing programs can take advantage of four cores, a fast c2d might be a better call? Correct me if need be.
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Well not sure on Sound Card

But there will be advantages with the Quad Core.

At Light + Sound we have a Dual Core and we want to have a Quad Core but IT will not pay for it. Because the computer is out of IT's budget.
 
I don't see a price on there, but yeah that would work great, however it all depends on his budget. If he really has money, I would buy a nice mixing board, a nice amp and a nice preamp, then he could have himself a nice little studio.
 
thermophilis said:
I don't see a price on there, but yeah that would work great, however it all depends on his budget. If he really has money, I would buy a nice mixing board, a nice amp and a nice preamp, then he could have himself a nice little studio.
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Everything comes down to budget. :P
 
I'd go for a Xeon if it's going to be data crunching all of the time, they're stable (good for a workstation, which this is) and when it comes to such tasks it's supposed to excel, plus they do a quad core version.
 
concorde said:
Apple. Enough said.
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Yeah but it depends on software. - Apple are for more video editting, photos, etc.

g25racer said:
I dont like apple and I kinda agree with you. Apple is better with vid though!
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I like apple, but for this sort of stuff i won't go for them. Agree with they are better for videos.

Windows will support most software and it would be hard to find stuff the compatible with an "apple workstation / or product".
 
vk3fcll said:
Yeah but it depends on software. - Apple are for more video editting, photos, etc.



I like apple, but for this sort of stuff i won't go for them. Agree with they are better for videos.

Windows will support most software and it would be hard to find stuff the compatible with an "apple workstation / or product".
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Yup!
 
Sure if you wanna spend more than $2,000!!! Logitech rocks and you cant say they dont!! Trust me those speakers are better than what you think. They will blow away some piece of shit $1,000 bose setup or something like that.
 
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