Woods Palmer here. I'd like to introduce myself and offer a little background for your files.

A couple years after highschool I did some time at a school for the recording arts. but upon completion I got sidetracked for the last fifteen years and did not pursue any recording career. However, the dream has smoldered.

Alright, a friend of mine is giving me an Athlon 800 (well for cheap anyway, he has no more room for computers in his apartment) I don't know what the Mobo is yet or the chipsets, etc. But, I need to know what I might run into. I'm upgrading from an Intel PII thingy. Do I want to go with XPpro? Or should I just stick with 98? Where do I go if I have problems with chipsets Etc?

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Hey all, most of us know him as "Cedar Flat Fats" who has been posting his *** off/ sharing his valuable knowledge about this business so much that I had to ask "Kurt" to join The RO Team of Moderators. Kurt said yes! :D and offered to join Harvey here. Ya!

Kurt is a musician, performer, live sound reinforcement engineer, record producer and recording engineer.

i'm rather new to the world of digital recording...having two learning curves to master:The PC and Sonar xl. i'm running sonarxl w/A7V333MOTHERBOARD, 1gig athlon, win 2000 pro and 528 megs DDR333 SDRAM, Edirol ua-5 sound card. i'm getting good results experimenting with different latency settings, etc. the problem?

i'm rather new to the world of digital recording...having two learning curves to master:The PC and Sonar xl. i'm running sonarxl w/A7V333MOTHERBOARD, 1gig athlon, win 2000 pro and 528 megs DDR333 SDRAM, Edirol ua-5 sound card. i'm getting good results experimenting with different latency settings etc. the problem? it seems I can't stop random clicks and pops from creeping up in the track.

What can these be used for?
What is their best use?
How do you wire one of these up to a console?
If you're wiring one to a patchbay, how?
The thing just has screws on the back?
How to use it?
Are they really desirable? If decide to get rid of this one would it be terribly difficult and how much?

Now I'm really confused...
I've been going back and forth between Twelve Tone Systems(Cakewalk) and Digital Audio Labs(DAL) on a question regarding burning Audio CD's.
Cakewalk gave me a sample rate conversion process which uses my soundcard's ability to manually change sample rates.
Here is the link of how to do this.
Partition Magic

I am trying to record 16-24 tracks of audio in the PC without using a mixer and external preamps. Please recommend a souncard having its own preamps?

Phase problems/anomalies are pratically a thing impossible to correct on a ProTool daw(and maybe on most daws).

Here I don't mean just switching out of phase or tweaking with sample shifts BUT SUBSAMPLES SHIFT, expressed in samples or, the better, in degrees rotation.

Someone has clues where to find TDM pluginsusing DSP)?

Can any sampling "experts" or aficianados in here tell this novice how one goes about sampling, for instance, the drum parts of a song from a CD (input from a CD player) without the sounds of other instruments/voices in the song mix getting into the sample (i.e., isolating the drum parts)? Does this require a particular kind of gear (or software)? Many advance thanks for your advice.