My three-year-old Delta 1010 seems to have developed a problem. A few months ago I noticed that when I first power up I hear a hum coming from the card ... at least I'm pretty sure it's the card and not the breakout box. And the hum is LOUD ... I have to kill the volume on the amp until it passes. It used to take two minutes to fade away ... now it's taking 25 minutes.

I currently have a (very humble) home studio with a few synths, and i was thinking the next addition i should make.. Monitors seem to be one of the top things i want.. I would prefer headphone monitors only because i would be able to do more production at times when people don't want to be disturbed. This isn't a huge preference though, only little (hehe)..

I have an Intel based 1.8 Gig, 256 RAM PC. I was wondering how many audio tracks can possibly be recorded with it. I have yet to buy a sound card, so i desperately want to know this before I buy one.

One more: Is it possible to record as many as 24 simultaneous audio tracks with a PC? Please suggest me a solution for this also.

So I'm eyeing my 01V over in the corner knowing that I can configure its MIDI protocol so that it can function as a control surface for my digi001. Only I'm relatively inexperienced when it comes to MIDI, and such a task would be a significant undertaking for me.

Let's face it, all of us at one time or another have heard a new artist on the radio or a video and wondered "Why the hell are they signed and I'm not? They suck!"

What's your take on this controversial and subjective subject?

I thought this might be an interesting idea.

What if we did a workshop on a current song that's on the hit list, "Special Effects, Making Songs - How did they do that?". We could do one style a month from Country to Hip Hop. It would be interesting to talk about how and what they did to get that sound, effect, arrangement etc. of each song.

OK. This cockamamy idea will probably get me branded as a physics phool and an airflow airhead. OR -- I'm giving away a money-making idea for free.

Here it is:

Count Rumford Meets Steve Jobs

Forgive any typos and kill me for anything wrong. .this is off the top of my head.

Here's what I know about TC (Time Code)

Time code was developed in the late sixties by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Enigineers. SMPTE.

Does anyone know of a simple 24 bit 8 channel ADAT i/o PCI card for PC (Win98se)? I'm after something around the two to three hundred Australian dollar mark.
Basically, I have a Mac G4 running Pro Tools / Digi 001 and a PC running Reason 2. The ADAT card will be used to connect 8 channels of Reason from my PC into the 001 on my Mac.

OK...now that Duxmer has opened the can of worms that is a DVD burner...I guess I would like to take it one step further...

Has anyone actually mixed to 5.1 (surround sound) or something equivalent (I know Nuendo does several different formats, but I have Cubase SX)? What is involved as far as burning to a DVD? I understand that the burning software is very, *very* expensive.