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Old 03-20-2010, 01:47 PM   #9
strunkdts
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Originally Posted by jaki54321 View Post
Hmm... What do you mean my external soundcard? I have a Pod Studio UX2 by line 6 which is external and can be used as the computers main soundcard. Do I need something with midi ports as well or something? I am extremely limited on USB hubs, my brand new imac as only 3 ports which are already being used! So my only bet right now is firewire unless I can find a USB hub that can run music equipment.
The pod will work, does it only have 2 inputs though? I suggested a souncard with more inputs, like atleast 8 with a couple of optical IO's so as to make the most of your mixer. U know, so you can record more than one stereo track at a time, or not having to record a whole mix bussed down into a stero out.
Something like the awesome Focusrite OctoPre MkII, or MOTU;s and even M-Audio has one with heaps of inputs, (even better you want the pre-amps, cos next after the mixer youll want the outboard preamps and compressors and reverbs ) alot of these soundcards you can daisychain together, so if you get the onyx you could run a direct out from each channel straight into the soundcard into Reaper and having a one to one relationship to your tracks and mixer. An awesome way to do it I rekon, bit more expensive, but its the way Id like to go,having a fair bit of hardware, just need a bigger soundcard.

I dont know how the Onyx works exactly, but what you said about soundcards having midi ports, yes, a good idea, and preferrably a FireWire interface too. But each to their own. USB3 is meant to be the hot new thing, but for the moment you cant beat FW and macs support FW800 right? too cool!

Google it all dude, its all out there, and at the end of the day, we buy what we can afford yeah? U can always sell and upgrade, but its still amazing what you can achieve with a very modest set up. Its great to have all the toys n hardware so as to be surrounded by all the space station blinky lights n madness and just being able to get ur hands dirty, but its not really neccessary these days with what goes on inside of ur puter.
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