Here's my situation:

Hi, my name is Erol :D

I am waiting on my copy of kontakt 2. i am not to familiar with either kontakt 2 or mach 5.

here is my situation:
G5 dual 1.8 2GB Ram 2nd drive for audio 7200RPM SATA

digital performer 4.5 and uad card

which runs with more stability? which is a better sounding unit? any feedback would be of great help.

KONTAKT 2 OR MACH 5 AND WHY?

I have heard tube pre's described as "starved plate" or "fake tubes" at times... is starving a plate or whatever inside a pre a way to get tube emulation? and if it is a starved plate design will it actually advertise as real tube technology? is this something I need to be cautious of? even if it isn't, I'm still curious, please clear the fog for me :lol:

thanks in advance

hey!
i've narrowed most of the stuff i want!
had basically decided on the MOTU 828 mkII but now i see the 896HD as dropped it's price to around 996$!
just a bit more than the 828 mkII... so... do you think it's worth it?
maintiger? do you?
one thing i don't understand is this...

Hi there,
I'm somewhat confused on the relivance of the VP88 mic...

Since I would have to:

A) Record normaly into a stereo device (porta MD/DAT) and in post spread the figure 8 pattern onto 2 tracks and reverse the polarity on one track, while having the regular pattern on another track as usual.

or

OK guys,

okie day, Im currently looking to expand my channels from 2 to 12 or 16. Im doing this because I'm starting to record drums now, and after getting some really good Micing techniques from you guys, I am not happy with a guitar cab unless it has at least two mics on it. so I was looking at the MOTU 196 HD system and the Lynx AES 16 channel card.

I'm planning on getting a mac with dp4 and I'm not sure does the MOTU 896 firewire act as a soundcard? if not what is its purpose and what is a great sound card to get for a mac. i want to use digital and analog in/outs.

Can you give me a good chain from say a keyboard or mic to the cpu.

like mic - mic preamp - a/d conv. -etc. also please refer me to a great mic preamp.

i'm looking at my owners manual (ASUS p4b266) and i'm trying to make sure i understand what the chart on page 2-14 (IRQ Assigments for this Motherboard) really means. before i try and contact ASUS support i thought i'd try here first. i understand what a shared interrupt is but as i look at this chart the top ledgend says A thru H. What does this represent?