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In article writes:

Considering my needs, can you give me any advice about the best PC
configuration at the best price (processor, motherboard, HD, ram,
CDR-DVD Recorder, video interface).

Conventional wisdom is to buy one step down from the fastest, biggest,
slickest available. While your needs sound pretty modest now (I was,
and still am doing my studio work with a 266 MHz Pentium III and 128 MB
memory, I'm greatly limited to what new software will run on it. You
will probably be adding things to your system, so you want to be able
to accommodate them.

I'd like to buy a dedicated sound card with microphone pre-amp, xlr
connections for guitars, and standard jack connections. 4 IN it's more
than enough. As for Output connections I don't really need a lot
'cause I process the whole song on Cubase

Start out by looking at the TASCAM US-122. One thing you should look
for since you're not planning to use a mixer (and the US-122 does
this) is the ability to mix the live input from your microphone with
the playback from disk so you don't have to deal with your software's
latency for monitoring. This is an important thing, particularly when
recording vocals. The US-122 does a pretty good job of providing all
the things you miss without a mixer. If you want more than two inputs
and outputs, you might look at what Echo has to offer. They're pretty
good about designing good sounding and flexible boxes.

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