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Topic: p.c for recording |
Gary Moore
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Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2011 4:26 am |
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| Is A p.c good for Home recording studio it has 4 gb ram. dual ps,firewire, what else does it need to be a good recording p.c thanks. p.c is a dell 410. |
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 6 Jul 2011 5:38 am
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An XPS410 will be OK for SOME recording programs. Just depends on what recording program you want to use and what audio recording interface you want to use.
The Firewire port is suspect, as most firewire audio recording devices need a Texas Instruments (TI) firewire port chip to work or work correctly. I don't know what is on an XPS 410 motherboard (or do you have a separate SoundBlaster with the port?) so that is one questionable area.
What OS do you have? the original XP or have you upgraded to Vista or Windows 7? That will also determine the recording program and hardware that you can use.
I have a Dell Dimension E510 (has a D925 dual core CPU), with Vista 32 bit and 4GB of RAM that I have used with Sonar, but it does not have a Firewire port and I had a SoundBlaster (used to have) that had a useable firewire port. Otherwise it ran Sonar 7 without problems for at least 6 analog channels and 1 MIDI channel.
My current recording system is a Q6600 Quad CPU, 8GB of RAM and Windows 7 64 bit that I run Sonar X1. |
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Gary Moore
From:
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Posted 7 Jul 2011 4:26 am X p
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| thanks jack it is a xps410 it has dual quad 6600 pcu 4 gb ram , i had to install the firewire card in came with out one, i have studio one, & pro tools 8 m- powered solfware an lots of plugins, also the interface is a firetube presonus,os is XP thanks i am going to see if it will recorded 8 track.s at once,s drum mic,'s .hope i have good luck. |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 7 Jul 2011 5:14 am
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| Just one comment, it doesn't have a "dual quad" it just has a quad Q6600 CPU. That is what I have in my PC that I run Sonar X1. |
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Gary Shepherd
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Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2011 3:10 pm
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Gary, just download a demo of Sonar or some other recording program and try it. Won't cost you anything. The Sonar demo runs for 30 days I think.
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Gary Shepherd
Carter D-10 & Peavey Nashville 1000
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Gary Moore
From:
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2011 4:47 am p.c
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| I was running 12 tracks in studio one Daw with waves plugins & my c.p.u was 20% is that good are bad thanks for the info. |
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Gary Shepherd
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Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2011 7:47 am
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I wouldn't worry too much about what the numbers say. If it sounds good, it is good. If you can do as many tracks as you need with as many plugins as you need, then record it. And you can always upgrade your hardware later.
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Gary Shepherd
Carter D-10 & Peavey Nashville 1000
www.16tracks.com |
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