I'm trying to run Spectrasonics software with my Mbox on a power book G4. The libraries would take up too much space on my internal drive SO, I'm wondering if there's a way to place the libraries on an external?

I am baffled why I here many enginers Track keyboards through a DI the to a board or channel strip... Is this to raise the level? Do they use phantom power engaged? Does this make tracking clearer?
Would this be a good idea for use with my Triton, Mpc2000xl, Roland5080? Going through either a Ua 610 or a Apogeetrak2..

Hi all,

I'm a musician who is growing into the recording stuff, so I would like to ask for your advice on ADC .

Currently I use a Yamaha 02R, but I'm running out of channels and the ADDA extension card gives me level problems all the time : no synth seems to get more than -12 dB out of this card, so I'm pretty much limited to the 24 input channels with gain.

I'm about to pop for a new laptop and USB interface, and want to be able to play Reason synths live with MIDI. A 2.8GHz Pentium 4 is plenty fast but runs hot and has a short battery life (1.5 hrs or so). A 1.7 GHz Pentium M is about as fast for business apps, runs cooler and claims 3-5hr battery.

So, yeah I'm a newbie, thing is I like "composing" music on Guitar Pro. I was using the SB Live soundcard but recently I bought and installed the M-Audio Audiophile (PCI). Well the problem is that the Audiophile has no Midi Synth. I want to get rid of the SB Live (I currently have both cards installed) but I need a midi synth for Guitar Pro.

right now i am using 2 preamps but i heard you should have 2 direct box's and no preamps at all. I also heard going through 2 direct box's and then 2 preamps. what is most common way of doing this?

I used to have a luverly Doepfer LMK 1V2 master keyboard, up until a few days ago when the guy who owns it took it away.

Now I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement with the following characteristics:

I own the JV-1080 module w/ a few expansion cards. It sounds OK to me but lacks the connectivity for digital expansion. I want to see how does the 5080 fair up in the sound/performance arena against others in it's class?

Hi all,

I use to use the old original hsrdware and was able to perform this neat function that sounded like a steel guitar.

How come that many synths produce a pulsating sound when you strike a chord and other don't. It's hard to describe but on many hardware and software synths if you strike a triad chord (or any other) you get a pulsating, wobbling sound. There are also many synths which don't have this. I know it has something to do with synced osc's or the lack thereof. Any idea's?