Hi

I'm about to attend a public music conservatory's sound engineer education. Only 4 gets accepted here pr year, so the competition is rather tough.

One of the assignments I have to go through is mixing a musical piece from 24 tracks to DAT in 20 minutes. The music piece will contain a rythm group with horns and vocals.

the quick and dirty:

i bought my computer system, amd athlon xp 1600 on an abit kr7a-raid motherboard. the other day i went to find a good audio hardware package to get to the recording part and ended up choosing the MOTU 2408 mkii.

Thought I would try you to get some advice. My system is very, very unstable w/DP3. I cannot open DP3 without it crashing and freezing my Mac. I have been rebooting it endlessly. Do I need to trash some prefs? Do I need to move something around? 1024 of Ram. Where should I look for the problem. I have been on the ph w/MOTU 5 straight days since I bought it last weekend.

I have just heard that there is some software that will allow you to use a Studio5 with a MPC2000, with complete control over all keyboards connected to the Studio5... without the use of a computer. Is this true? If so, how would one go about setting this up? TIA. :w:

Musician's friend has the highly touted Oktava MC012's with 3 capsules for $249. They also have the cardiod MK012 for $99. What is it? How does it related to the MC012? Is it just a single pattern MC012? Thanks.

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after much research decided on intel ddr mobo, would appreciate any recommendations on the best one to use in particular with midiman audiophile+any problems/successes people have had
looking at
*intel d845pt (seems fairly poor from other reviews)
*asus p4b266 (good but expensive?)
*Soyo P4i fire dragon
*MSI 845 Ultra

Your opinions.Where does it sound better?(Drums,Guitars? etc.)

While everyone's in the mood talking about consoles, I am keen to hear some opinions about the above one. :w:

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>>systems. this is about 400 more than i wanted to spend. any suggestions would be appreciated
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>Motherboards Tyan S2466N Tiger MPX Dual AMD Athlon Motherboard with
>LAN

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Detailed information will be posted shortly...I'll be offering upgrades to Soundscape 32 for current owners of SSHDR and EMU<>ENSONIQ Paris.

Thanks!