[Ritual]

I am of little resources. I'm about to dump all I can into a last
hope.

Is there anything I should know about building a computer for
music-making purposes? Is there a chipset I should avoid? What should
I build? I have looked all over the web with no definite info. I would
appreciate experienced people, I do Cubase and VST and guitar
recording on what little equipment I have (basic mixer, mics, amp,
axes). I do remember that certain chipsets and so-on were to be
avoided not too long ago. I need recommendations (with info to back it
up, if possible) towards building a system.

My local builder, whom I have much faith in, builds good stuff but is
not specialized in audio. I find it hard to believe that no particular
audio configuration exists.

- R

[malachi[_2_]]

Lots of helpful, Cubase specific information he

http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=48668

good luck

malachi

Ritual wrote in message news

I am of little resources. I'm about to dump all I can into a last
hope.

Is there anything I should know about building a computer for
music-making purposes? Is there a chipset I should avoid? What should
I build? I have looked all over the web with no definite info. I would
appreciate experienced people, I do Cubase and VST and guitar
recording on what little equipment I have (basic mixer, mics, amp,
axes). I do remember that certain chipsets and so-on were to be
avoided not too long ago. I need recommendations (with info to back it
up, if possible) towards building a system.

My local builder, whom I have much faith in, builds good stuff but is
not specialized in audio. I find it hard to believe that no particular
audio configuration exists.

- R

[Eeyore]

Tim Perry wrote:

The convection cooled (fanless) power supply that I tried on my latest DAW
was a total failure.

In what respect ?

Graham

[Arny Krueger]

"Tim Perry" wrote in
message

The biggest problem I have is getting a "computer
builder" to understand that "low noise" means barely
audible or less.

Agreed. And, that's possible at a reasonble price.

The convection cooled (fanless) power supply that I tried
on my latest DAW was a total failure.

Sounds interesting. What went wrong?

Laptops / notebooks are nice and quiet but they have
their own subset of problems... try plugging you favorite
audio card into them. I'm starting to hate the word
"legacy".

Trust me, laptops aren't a bowl of cherries, either. They all have fans, and
some of them are louder than my desktops.

[Laurence Payne]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:35:03 -0500, "Tim Perry"
wrote:

The biggest problem I have is getting a "computer builder" to understand
that "low noise" means barely audible or less.

The convection cooled (fanless) power supply that I tried on my latest DAW
was a total failure.

I'm very pleased with my latest Antek case. Cheap, and as quiet as
I've ever heard without spending a LOT of money.


Laptops / notebooks are nice and quiet but they have their own subset of
problems... try plugging you favorite audio card into them. I'm starting to
hate the word "legacy".

There are situations where even a laptop running on battery is too
noisy. If you find yourself in such a situation the only real answer
is to get the microphones further away from the computer.

[Deputy Dumbya Dawg[_11_]]

One big question to ask yourself is "how will I monitor myself
while I am recording?" If you are planning to use a mixer for
your preamps and generate a monitor mix for yourself outside
the DAW you can get away with a pretty simple PC. I am still
on a six year old 1.4 Meg P4 and record 24 tracks at once with
nuendo and mixdown in the DAW. No problem.

Once you start getting into the "monitor in the box" the
latency issue pops up and you need more processor power. Most
of the stuff on the Cuebase forum is related to getting a low
latency mix out of the DAW.

I have sat in a room with the Steinberg rep and listened to a
guitar player scrape the strings then after a noticeable delay
I hear the guitar come out of the monitors. Although the
guitar player had no problem with this the bass player could
not play at all with the delay (latency). Of course the rep
denied there was any audible latency at all, even though the
bass player refused to do his part and I was clearly hearing
the delay with the guitar.

IMHO---There is a cavernous difference between what these guys
call "low latency" and what in the analog world is NO LATENCY.

peace
dawg


Ritual wrote in message
news

I am of little resources. I'm about to dump all I can into a
last
hope.

Is there anything I should know about building a computer
for
music-making purposes? Is there a chipset I should avoid?
What should
I build? I have looked all over the web with no definite
info. I would
appreciate experienced people, I do Cubase and VST and
guitar
recording on what little equipment I have (basic mixer,
mics, amp,
axes). I do remember that certain chipsets and so-on were to
be
avoided not too long ago. I need recommendations (with info
to back it
up, if possible) towards building a system.

My local builder, whom I have much faith in, builds good
stuff but is
not specialized in audio. I find it hard to believe that no
particular
audio configuration exists.

- R

[Romeo Rondeau[_4_]]

Trust me, laptops aren't a bowl of cherries, either. They all have fans, and
some of them are louder than my desktops.

My wife has a HP laptop that is noisy as hell and can be used as a space
heater at times...

[Peter Larsen[_2_]]

Ritual wrote:

I am of little resources. I'm about to dump all I can into a last
hope.

What you say is that you can't afford to screw it up. Find something ready
made, but last years model, that comes close and retails at a good price.

Is there anything I should know about building a computer for
music-making purposes?

Sharemem graphics bad.

Is there a chipset I should avoid?

Get an intel mobo with an intel chipset and an intel duo core processor or
better.

What should I build?

Worst case when you diy is that you screw it up royally and end up with a
pile of broken rubbish. A good learning experience if you can afford the
risk.

I have looked all over the web with no definite info. I would
appreciate experienced people, I do Cubase and VST and guitar
recording on what little equipment I have (basic mixer, mics, amp,
axes). I do remember that certain chipsets and so-on were to be
avoided not too long ago. I need recommendations (with info to back it
up, if possible) towards building a system.

Get all ihtel, steer well clear of anything vista, get a two grades up from
cheapest graphics card, again: look for last year model at a bargain price.

My local builder, whom I have much faith in, builds good stuff but is
not specialized in audio. I find it hard to believe that no particular
audio configuration exists.

last years models tends to make great productivity boxes. For the safe bet:
get intel mobo, intel cpu, kingston ram minimum 1 gigabyte, for bang for the
buck: mid range nvidia graphics card, grab xp while you can.

Find your way to the pcdaw list on yahoo ...


Kind regards

Peter Larsen