These are really good points. To reemphasize, dedicate your machine
to music software/hardware. If you start hanging scanners and stuff
off of it, you will get instabilities.
DAWs are a personal thing. If you are just beginning, start with
reviews and screenshots and see which one appeals most to you.
Chances are it will become a life-time music partner.
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Scott Gibbons <scott.gibbons@m...> wrote:
> Would you be willing to have a dedicated computer for your music
software?
> If so, I think many of the bug / crash / "POS" issues would be non-
existent.
> Most problems arise from conflicts between different drivers,
extensions,
> problems with cracked software, etc. If you keep your machine lean,
and use
> another computer for your internet and gaming, it will likely
behave - PC or
> Mac.
>
> A DAW is such a personal thing... I would recommend you try them
all out
> before you buy. What works for one person, might be unusable for
another.
> Download the free demos from the manufacturers' websites and try
them each
> for a while to see what you like & dislike about each.
>
> At the studio, we use a Pro Tools|24 system, and it's AMAZING. I
really love
> it. I wouldn't replace this setup with anything else for recording
the kind
> of bands that come in (everything is mic'd or DI'd, no MIDI,
nothing fancy).
> But... when I work on my own projects, I use MIDI extensively, and
couldn't
> give up Digital Performer for the way it effortlessly combines both
MIDI and
> audio environments simultaneously.
>
> Digital Performer... I love it. The only thing I would change about
it would
> be to put some of the DSP on a chip like Digi has done. But still -
I've
> gotten 72 audio tracks before, with tons of plugins, before my 450
mhz G4
> started to sputter. That ain't bad! As one of my friends
observed: "if it's
> good enough for Wendy Carlos and Danny Elfman..." ;-)
>
> best,
> - Scott
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