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An old friend of my brother and I is looking to get a computer to edit/create/record/remix his home music (Which he does for half of his living).
I'm kind of lost as to what a good computer for this would be since the majority of my expertise is towards video/data editing and gaming.
I was wondering if anybody here has some suggestions on what some good pieces are to make a computer for this would be, or a company that might premake a computer for it?
All I know is he'll need a really good sound card (like something from M-Audio, but there's so many options), a speedy CPU (like an AMD XP), memory (I was thinking 512MB+), and lots of hard drive space (Like 60GB+).
Cost efficiency IS an issue here, since he doesn't have lots of money to spend (why I'm shying away from P4 CPUs and worried about which sound card is good).
I'll see if I can talk with him tomorrow and ask what exactly he does and doesn't need.
 
Yeah, except for the fact that it lies about it's 24bit/96kHz support, is more money than it's worth, and is a gaming card like all of Creative's products.
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i dunno if u should go amd here mate.
i know this one dude who is some audio freak he has a full studio and does alot of recording .
but he has problems with cubasis and other steinberg software.
some of their tools won't even run ..

the guy is a big amd nut but for his recording and sound stuff he uses the mac and an intel machine .
he uses a p3 800 mhz with 512 mb of ram . pro tools just runs fine on it .

he does not use well known soundcards .. he uses those soundcard for professionals .. i don't hear the difference much between a good creative card but these ppl hear shit i don't hear .
those pro cards are more expensive tho .
depends how serious he is about sound
 
Yeah, I was confused about where this should go, but it is about helping with hardware, so I posted here.
I'm pretty sure this guy wants to make some serious money out of his music, but he doesn't have that much to spend right now.
He knows someone that can hook him up with a ton of free software though.

Wargy, see if that guy you know can recommend a cheap professional card, or where to get one for cheaper?
 
The game theater Xp has some nice stuff, I know it's called game theater, but it has digital audio in/out as well as midi ports for keyboards, so maybe that would be an option if the Pro sound cards are too expensive.

[/edit1]Just put a few questions about, see what I can find out.


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http://www.northernsounds.com/store/enter.html?target=SoundCards.html

http://www.synthzone.com/sndcard.htm

http://www.musicmaker.demon.co.uk/mmprods.htm#Professional Soundcards



[/edit2]
http://www.cdrecordingsoftware.com/sound_cards.html

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http://www.zzounds.com/love.music?p=p.AARAARK24&a=adTLalta,AARAARK24_020624

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http://www.audiotracks.com/hardware.htm

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http://www.astra-services.co.uk/azt386.htm
 
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