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Originally posted by Theran Wiki quote: A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds. Many DAWs, especially computer-based DAWs, have MIDI recording, editing, and playback capabilities.

Later in the same WIKI page:


Varieties
DAWs generally come in two varieties:

Computer-based DAWs
Consist of three components: a computer, an ADC-DAC, and digital audio editor software. The computer acts as a host for the sound card and software and provides processing power for audio editing. The sound card acts as an audio interface, typically converting analog audio signals into digital form, and may also assist in processing audio. The software controls the two hardware components and provides a user interface to allow for recording, editing, and playback. Most computer-based DAWs have extensive MIDI recording, editing, and playback capabilities. Some even have minor video-related features. It is speculated that many radio stations in the U.S. prefer using computer-based DAWs intead of integrated DAWs.

Integrated DAWs
Consist of a mixing console, control surface, audio converter and data storage in one device. Integrated DAWs were more popular before personal computers became powerful enough to run DAW software...... etc




Anyway, on-topic! As far as my computer-specs it's a Core2Quad 2,4 GHz with 4gb DDR2 RAM. I love it. I can without a problem have 25+ vst-instruments (Nexus, Atomsphere, etc) running with several vst-effects on each. Plus all the wav-files running in the sequencer as well. As far as my soundcard and Sequencer it's an M-Audio Delta 1010LT and Cubase 5.

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Last edited by [Alpha]Dave on Jun-18-2009 at 14:22

my pc is about a year and a bit old now duo core and that.
I plan on slapping some more ram in soon 2g and my parents are buying me a new sound card for my birthday so at the moment i have been using standard stuff.

i use fl8 and if i dont go crazy with fx in my mixer then i can load up as many synths as i like.i guess it depends on what type of music you plan on making the more uplifting stuff does need good latency control and normally take up a lot of vst usage.

if its stuff like tech then i found its not a problem just good clever use off one or two synths and percussion.

i guess it comes down to what ever suites your needs.

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Originally posted by owien ...the more uplifting stuff does need good latency control...

I'm sorry, but that doesn't make any sence.
Thank for replying everybody!

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Originally posted by Theran I'm sorry, but that doesn't make any sence. Thank for replying everybody!

ok what i mean is usually that type of genure will put a massive burden on cp load unless you have a good sound card to take some of the strain put on the pc.

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Originally posted by owien ok what i mean is usually that type of genure will put a massive burden on cp load unless you have a good sound card to take some of the strain put on the pc.

Yeah, that's right. But it has nothing to do with latency

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AMD 3200+ 64bit
2.5Gigs RAM
Some RealTek sound card.

Ive not had many problems. Only if I try to use the FL vocoder does my shit break. Or when I try some crazy automation.

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I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1420 with Windows Vista. 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 160 GB HD space (and a 320 GB external drive), with Ableton Suite 8 and Predator. I don't really have any problems, but using synths does tend to send my CPU usage into the 50% or higher zone. If I could go back and build my own machine for this stuff, I'd be sure to get a quad core processor and 8 (or more) native USB ports.