Hey guys I just started building a computer to use for recording and midi (Reason with midi controller and possibly other softsynths) and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on hardware or knew any good electronic music sites and/or forums with people that would have a lot of experience in this catagory. I bought an Intel Core Duo 6750 for the processor. I'm mainly concerned with midi latency issues. Right now I'm recording through a USB audio mixer which I'll probably port over to the music computer. It's an Alesis Multimix 8 USB but eventually I want to upgrade to a full multitrack interface controller. Anyway if anyone has any suggestions or knows of any good topic specific sites or forums it would be appreciated.
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Setting up Audio Recording/Producing workstation
- Thread starter windoze9x
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You may want to try out an audio program called "Reaper" it is being constantly worked on and is what I use for my audio workstation. I don't do any midi work currently, but I've been very happy with Reaper to be honest. Just do a google search on it and you should find it. They also have a very active user forum as well.
What multitrack software do you want to use? It isn't possible to use plug-ins in Reason, so you'll need something that allows for VST/VSTi/DX plug-ins (or AudioSuite/RTAS plug-ins for Pro Tools). Adobe's Audition seems like a reasonably decent M/T app that supports all the typical plug-in standards. You can ReWire Reason as a VSTi plug-in for use in other DAWs, though I'm not actually positive how this works.
For MIDI, it's commonly agreed upon that nothing beats Apple's Logic, though Pro Tools has been slowly gaining ground since the introduction of 7.0. Obviously, Logic is OS X only, though Pro Tools definitely prefers to be run on a lean OS X workstation as well (it also requires particular hardware).
I've always preferred Macs and OS X for production, but that doesn't mean there aren't good options for Windows, either. For Windows, just set up user accounts/hardware profiles that are as lean as humanly possible -- disable themes, fast user switching, error reporting, and so on and so forth. Hell, disable your network too if you can. Preferably, use a separate OS (Vista for example, or set up multiple XP installations) for daily usage, and use XP for audio-related stuff.
For MIDI, it's commonly agreed upon that nothing beats Apple's Logic, though Pro Tools has been slowly gaining ground since the introduction of 7.0. Obviously, Logic is OS X only, though Pro Tools definitely prefers to be run on a lean OS X workstation as well (it also requires particular hardware).
I've always preferred Macs and OS X for production, but that doesn't mean there aren't good options for Windows, either. For Windows, just set up user accounts/hardware profiles that are as lean as humanly possible -- disable themes, fast user switching, error reporting, and so on and so forth. Hell, disable your network too if you can. Preferably, use a separate OS (Vista for example, or set up multiple XP installations) for daily usage, and use XP for audio-related stuff.