Karl Paecht
06-18-2006, 09:02 AM
Hi all. Karl's back. It's been awhile. Guess it had something to do with the birth of my first child in Nov, '04! A girl. First time father at 46 and lovin' it. Anyway, I'm looking for help with this subject. What follows are the details.
I'm using Cakewalk Home Studio 2 XL. I want to get into multitracking. What an array out there. I'm using a Gateway laptop, P4, 3.2 MHz, 512M Ram. External 80G USB 2.0 HDD 7200 rpm for audio. System drive os 80G but 4800 rpm. I record to the external drive. TASCAM US 122 interface. Yamaha MG 16/6 mixer. I've been recording two track into HS via the 122 with no problems. I want to go to multitrack. I have a Korg D16. We've used it before I went the computer route. I could never get the bass sound good. Plus it only has a 2.1G HDD. Also to produce CD's, I need go via the D16 optical out to my TASCAM CRW700. It sounds really good actually but I have to do it in real time. Whew! So I'm looking for help. The laptop has a four pin firewire port. I just don't know what's good, bad or otherwise. TASCAM's site stated they don't recommend the four pin for the 1082, the rack one. MOTU looks good. But I just don't know. Too many out there. Eight tracks is fine. Looking to spend under $1k. I want to stay with Cakewalk because, it's a cakewalk!:) I'm just looking for something that has good sound quality and is stable. I want to either hookup direct to it or use the group/stereo outs from the mixer. I have a three piece band. Myselg and another guitar player, bass and a drum machine. Drums, myself and bass player are all stereo in. Other guitar mono in. I'm sure I can record eight simultaneously since I'm recording to the external drive and not taxing the CPU. I don't put effects on when tracking. That's all done at mixing. I hope I've given enough info. All replies welcome. I love cakewalk's simplicity. Mixdown, export etc. All very easy for me. No it's time to take the next step so to speak. Thanks to all in advance.
I'm using Cakewalk Home Studio 2 XL. I want to get into multitracking. What an array out there. I'm using a Gateway laptop, P4, 3.2 MHz, 512M Ram. External 80G USB 2.0 HDD 7200 rpm for audio. System drive os 80G but 4800 rpm. I record to the external drive. TASCAM US 122 interface. Yamaha MG 16/6 mixer. I've been recording two track into HS via the 122 with no problems. I want to go to multitrack. I have a Korg D16. We've used it before I went the computer route. I could never get the bass sound good. Plus it only has a 2.1G HDD. Also to produce CD's, I need go via the D16 optical out to my TASCAM CRW700. It sounds really good actually but I have to do it in real time. Whew! So I'm looking for help. The laptop has a four pin firewire port. I just don't know what's good, bad or otherwise. TASCAM's site stated they don't recommend the four pin for the 1082, the rack one. MOTU looks good. But I just don't know. Too many out there. Eight tracks is fine. Looking to spend under $1k. I want to stay with Cakewalk because, it's a cakewalk!:) I'm just looking for something that has good sound quality and is stable. I want to either hookup direct to it or use the group/stereo outs from the mixer. I have a three piece band. Myselg and another guitar player, bass and a drum machine. Drums, myself and bass player are all stereo in. Other guitar mono in. I'm sure I can record eight simultaneously since I'm recording to the external drive and not taxing the CPU. I don't put effects on when tracking. That's all done at mixing. I hope I've given enough info. All replies welcome. I love cakewalk's simplicity. Mixdown, export etc. All very easy for me. No it's time to take the next step so to speak. Thanks to all in advance.