A Spec for Music please

englishpremier

englishpremier

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i have been asked by yet another friend to spec him a computer for music. I have a good idea what to include but its always worth getting other opinions. He has been stuck with the same machine since around 2000.

The computer will be used for Internet browsing and Music recording/playback only.

He wants at least 500GB+ storage, and a quality sound card for music. He also wants 19" TFT.

I was thinking something along the lines of a Dual core P4 3.0ghz, 2GB ram, M-Audio card.

The budget is £900 max
 
sinister_stu said:
I'd suggest that he buys an external USB/FireWire soundcard if he's serious about recording music. Dual core would definitely be an advantage as the ASIO drivers run as a background service.
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why is USB/fireware better? is there less noise interferance or something?#

Are there any you suggest?
 
he is basically just going to be recording from his decks through his mixer and amp into the computer, but in you never know in future he might want to do a little bit more than that. If you could just point me in the direction of the sort of things i should be looking at/for then i'll do a bit of research.

cheers.
 
the budget is £900 including a 19" TFT.

I hear what you guys are saying, but he has told me he wants a dedicated sound card. M-audio is the prefered make, though he wouldn't care if he got a creative (X-FI music?). The budget for sound is around £80-150 if need be.
 
luminous said:
I can run about 4/5 vsti`s with 25 stereo audio channels with fx and reason and thats on an athlon xp 2600 and 1 gig ram.I`ll just bounce down the vstis to free up memory.
If he`s recording his mixes and applying effects etc i`m surprised he`s not writing tunes himself,its so easy having reason as your workhorse.
That spec looks like overkill for just recording audio & applying fx but if you think theres any chance he might get into production then i`m sure he will be more than happy with your spec,and with a pcie board he might even get into games.Everything would be faster,encoding,applying fx etc and thats always preferable to an old machine or a celeron.The audiophile is the one i`d go for,theres loads of options for breakout boxes etc should he want to go that route.
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cool.. I am just concious that yes he may well get into more heavy stuff, as one usually does with these things (or give up altogether). Plus it will be a long time before he upgrades again and i know you can't future proof, but every little helps.
 
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