Tell us about your DAW

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:40 pm

webtroy wrote:

CRSBEATZ36 wrote:

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p.s. im selling The delta 66, omni i/o and the sure sm58 all for only $450

because im going to purchasing a pro tools rig here pretty soon

i must advize against protools.. (if your talking MBOX) .. if you are talkin protools HD .. then go for it.. but MBOX you are so limited with two inputs and digitech hardware..

it is expensive and not worth it in the end when you realize you need more..

digitech hardware???? Shocked

the mbox is made by digidesign with pre's from focusrite....

protools LE can also run on the digi002 rack....

i'm not sure your advice is based on actual knowledge...

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:27 am

Digi 002 PT 6.1 , Yamaha O1V, Mac Dual G4, 1 gig ram, 1 130 gig lacie firewire drive, 2 cheap PC monitors, KRK rokit 8's , TC finalizer, TC voice works, panasonic dat, shure 57 , 58s, apex mics, akg c1000, akg d 112, sennheiser 421, akg the tube

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:35 am

733mhz g4 quicksilver
512 ram
40 gig harddrive
80 gig firewire
cdrw

m- audio delta 1010 (brilliant)
behringer Ub2442Fx

cubase v1.2
reason 2
protools m-powered

im currently saving up for a bigger processor because its not handling protools to well, everything runs great

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:35 am

holla!!

hardware:
Pc:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
2x 512mb Samsung pc3200
2x 120 gb IBM Deskstar
1x 320 gb Western Digitals
AGP Geforce 5900fx 128mb
ESI Waveterminal 192m (4in, 8 out)

Peripheral:
M-Audio Keystation 49e
Mackie DFX6 mixer
2x Shure SM57
Marshall JCM2000 TSL601
Cheapo Ibanez RG Replicas

Software:
Cubase SX2
Wavelab
FM7
Battery2
Waves Diamond Bundle
Kontakt

im recording audio as well as midi.
well, my setup is far from optimal. im using this pc for everything (internet, gaming, and whatnot) so the performance in audio applications leaves much to be desired. im planing on building a stand alone gaming rig so i can have this one as clean as possible for audio only.
the plugin limit?? dunno i never tried to reach it, i guess its something between 10-15 tracks maybe less
also, im using my hifi system for monitoring which is as bad as it can get, but i havent got the money atm to buy some neat mid range speakers...i was thinking of the mackie hr626 when ive saved enough, but i ve not decided yet.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:02 pm

CAUKO CHALANI!!!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:01 pm

Here's my daw...

Toshiba Satellite 17" screen with Intel Hyper Tread.
1x80g HD
1x120g Usb HD
1 Gig SDRAM

Protools 7 with Digi 002R
Reason, Ableton.
Alesis MK2 active monitors.
Alesis AI3 converters
Audio-technica 4040, 2020
Seinheisser MD421
Shure Sm58, sm57

ART mp ( a shame)
But i'm putting together some more money to spend on good preamps.

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:30 pm

(custom built)
amd 64 3000+ 1.7ghz
2x -512 ddr ram chips
geforce 6600
2x -200 gb sata hd's
windows xp pro
motu 2408 mkIII

outboard:
mackie onyx 1220
2x focusrite trackmaster pre's
lots and lots of mics (dynamic and condenser)
all mogami cables
2.1 bluesky monitors
sennhieser hd 280 phones

software:
i run sonar 4 pe
waves diamond
L3
Q10
various dx/dxi and vst/vsti

midi:
radium 49
roland v-drums

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:58 pm

Software: Pro Tools and Logic Pro 7
Interfaces: 2 Digi 002 racks
Also, loads of outboard gear I hardly use anymore.

When mixing, the mains of my Soundcraft Ghost console go through a tc electronics Finalizer 96k, to a distribution amp, which feeds any mastering devices and the control room monitor section of the console. The finalizer also feeds back into a digi 002, via light pipe, for mixdown directly into Pro Tools or Logic. To eliminate glitches, I am using the Finalizer as the master clock for both programs.

hey... it works for me.

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:45 pm

new here

Windows XP
Dell Pentium 3.2ghz 800 fsb
1.25 GB RAM
80 GB IDE drive
ATI 9800pro
19" Sony trinitron

EZ Bus mixer (2B replaced)
currently audio through DigiTech GNX 3000 pedal's USB 2.0 (can be noisy and only runs 16 bit)

Shure mics etc

Martin D35
Fender American Strat Deluxe
some old Classical guitar

Sonar 5.0
FLStudio 6
Dimension Pro
Sytrus
VSampler
Edirol PCR M80 MIDI keyboard (nice)

Alesis 300 ref amp
Alesis mkII passives
Yamaha PA amp (P3500S)
Yamaha PA monitors

Wish list

64 bit PC when 64 bit XP and Sonar 64 mature a little
a better audio interface and preamps
more PA gear i.e. JBL mpro series
a better digital mixer
more software
more guitars
TAMA drum kit
more mics
Roland DR880
Yamaha motif

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:21 pm

AMD 4400+ (thats a 64 bit dual core 2.2 ghz)
2 gigs ocz Gold XTC ram
10000 rpm 74 gig western digital as main drive
2 x 250 gig Seagate Barracuda 16 meg cache (NL35 series) - audio drives in raid 0
ATI 1800xl

monitoring: Mackie 624s

Recording: (protools) mbox 2

Mics: 2x Audiotechnica 4050, 2x audiotechnica 4041

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:30 pm

I guess I should toot my horn some more! I built a Intel Dual Core a few months ago. Pretty sick if I do say so myself. My 4th "Ground Up" Intel Build. The First-gen Intel Dual Cores (the 8x0 series 90nm process cores w 2MB L2) left much to be desired IMO. The latest line of 65nm Dual Cores (the 9x0 "Presler" line with 4MB of L2) has much better performance, and runs OODLES cooler, too. The prices will be falling like rain at the end of April, and again in Q3 (we are talking 50% price cuts here, folks!). They are bringing the big guns to the knife fight...

Intel D-930 Dual Core - Stock Speed: 3.0GHz per core, 4MB of L2 Cache. Overclocked to 3.9GHz per core with a XP-120 heatsink and Fan on low/inaudible speeds.

Asus P5WD2-Premium MoBo

2Gigs OCZ Gold DDR2-667 RAM

OCZ Powerstream 520 - 520Watt single rail adjustable voltage power supply (+/- 1% tolerance on the rails - VERY stable voltage and quiet as a mouse).

Sapphire x800GTO PCI-Express 16x; 256MB of 256bit GDDR-3 RAM

TWO 36Gig Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA HD's in RAID-0 on the ICH7R for the 3 OS partitions (Triple boot)

TWO 250Gig WD SATA-II 16MB Cache HD's in RAID-0 on the ICH7R (Average Read BW ABOVE 100MB/s Shocked

)

Over 1TB of removeable B/U HD's in caddies that mount in a front-panel Bay - interfaced via a PATA-to-SATA Bridge Board to allow painless hot-swapping of the PATA drives, and full speed transfers (no Firewire Packet Conversion losses which DO slow down transfers). B/U Images of the OS's are also accomodated via Caddies and Ghost.

2x Plextor 740A 16x DVD-RW-DL drives (Nero allows ripping and burning to 2 or more drives at once, and it saves TONS of time)

20.1" Dell LCD/DVI @ native 1600x1200 (Extra Large Fonts + Large Icons are a must!)

RME Multiface

Antec SLK-3000 Mid-ATX Case w/ 120mm fan locations and 3 Silverstone 120mm fans on low/inaudible speed.

Scores over 8500 points in PCMARK-04 with a basic video card Shocked

and it is fairly quiet, too! Beat that Wink

I moved my other 4GHz P4 to our rehearsal room, and I track band practice directly to removeable HD Caddies. I can simply pop out the caddy (no wires, no copying files, nothing) and pop in into my Home PC (the Dual Core), and start mixing away.

My Shuttle xPC 3GHz is not getting much use lately (replaced by the 4GHz P4), so I might turn it into a HTPC. It sure is quiet enough, and has 500Gigs of storage installed. All she needs is an appropriate video card to handle the DVR functions (I do love my DTV TiVo for this task, but the lack of easy file exporting to DVD's is somewhat annoying).

Ahh - I STILL love tweaking PC's.

Rock On Cool

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:05 pm

After about 6 months of research, I built my DAW PC about 3 weeks ago. Here's what I chose:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (not overclocking at present), Asus A8R-MVP Radeon Express 200 Crossfire mobo (with BIOS revision 0402), 2 x 1GB Corsair Twinx3200C2 RAM (at 2.5-3-3-6-1T), Antec Phantom 500 pwr supply, ATI FireMV2200 128MB video card, 3 WD Caviar 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s HDs in a RAID 5 array, 2 x Asus DVD burners, WinXP SP2 with updates.

Audio interface is a Tascam FW1082 (with v1.50 drivers). It controls Cubase SX3.1 very nicely, and I think I'm going to enjoy the touch-sensitive faders.

Couldn't set up the RAID array until I updated the BIOS, even though the Asus website says the A8R-MVP supports RAID 5. I guess that's a sign of how the manufacturers crank 'em out before they're finished baking, eh? Anyway, once I flashed the BIOS, everything installed fine. I went with RAID 5 on the advice of an old friend who has built several PCs (he used to work for Digital on their mainframes). He seems to think that the fault tolerance was desirable over the potential performance overhead caused by the RAID's parity calculations. So far, it seems plenty quick to me.

Everything is very stable and I'm getting processor temps in the 35C range with the stock case and processor fans. However, I admittedly haven't been pushing the system very hard yet. I'm still tweaking some settings in BIOS and the OS to determine what will provide optimum performance.

This was a major upgrade for me, since my old rig was a Yamaha MD-8 minidisk recorder synced to a Win95 PC (Pentium 100!!!). I'll report back after I've completed a project or two and let you know how things are going.

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:50 am

My new DAW is as follows:

AMD 4400x2, on a ASUS mobo with nvidia chip, couple of hard drives, 1g of ram, 7300 nvidai graphics card, and Layla 24/96 sound card. The software is: Cubase se and reason 3.0....thats it

This is my first computer I ever built from scratch. I had no problems at all...eveything went smoooooth.

Best,
golok Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:18 pm

heres mine.

WinXp Pro (NO Sp2!!!!),
AMD ATHLON 4200+ X2 64bit , 940pin
4 gb Ocz gold pc3200 ,
2 sataII WD Caviar drives(160/Os , 250/Data),
LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D ,
Enermax 660 wtt
ATI x1900 256mb ddr3.....
All in a server type rack mount

And to top everything off 3 Motu 2408 for 24 bit yummy-ness....

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:57 pm

Macbook Pro 2.0ghz 100gb 7200 internal 1gb ram
Samsung 19" LCD
200gb 7200 fw recording drive
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile
M-Audio Axiom 25
Logic Pro 7.2.2
-Sibelius 3.1.1
Reason 3.0.5, strings and drumkit refils
Ableton Live 5.2, for the synths
-Bias Peak 4 with pile of ppc plugs, all torrent edition, Sad

. Don't have the money yet for Peak 5xt, soon though.
Akg k240's
Mesa m-2000 for bass di functions
Hotrodded P-Bass and J-Bass
5 string Fretless
5 String Acoustic Bass
1971 E.H. Roth Upright with Pickups.
I'm thinking I may get either a Yamaha i88x, since their relatively inexpensive and now that mLan's universal binary compatible for the good preamps, or I may just get a Apogee Mini-Me with a future student loan and some form of full range, not super expensive microphones for live XY or MS recording. Still learning, so I'll play it by ear, I'm desiring a six string fretless bass, so this stuff may be putoff for another year. Also, I'd love to get a Sadowsky Bass DI, but again, time is a factor. I can't wait to get my own versions of Peak and Sibelius, especially considering peak is UB now, and rosetta emulation sucks. Everything else I own on the list. Also, another future buy is Drumkits From Hell Superior: Custom and Vintage and the Waves SSL plugin bundle once it goes UB. Bah, too many things, too little money. After that, I cant think of much else personally. Anything else I'd desire, I could rent a studio to use, I hope.

My system is used for songwriting and tracking bass on friends compositions. Since I'm a student, probably going to end up buying protools m-powered for the student discount now, Would be awesome to not have to import my friends protools sessions the long way unless I wanted to work on them in Logic.

BTW, Logic is a hard ### mother######. I got the academic version for 300 bucks, and am glad I have all that power available, but cripes, after using my friends digi002 system, it seems a bit alien. At least it came with a real manual, unlike my friends digi002, and reading the plugin manual taught me alot about how audio processing functions on a general level.

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