Ableton Forum

Brand Suggestions:
- Motherboard - ASUS, Abit, or Gigabyte
- Chip - Get a dualcore Athlon, say the Athlon64 X2 4600+
- RAM - Crucial, Kingston, or Corsair (stay away from any of the "value" lower ends)
- Hard drives - Western Digital or IBM; try to get 8 - 16MB of cache on each hard drive, and ...

The other option is to go to CompUSA or a computer store and get a store-made PC with all the componenets. Essentially, you're picking the components and you're having the store geeks build the machine for you.


Even if ihave one built from scratch i still don't know the specific brand or type of ...

I have a monitor already so I will like to spend just 600 for a desktop


[/quote]budget? That's the most important bit of info.[quote][/quote]

Thanks for the feedback fella's,
Machinate i am using this strictly for audio production and I am looking for desktop since i already have a multiface hammerfall pci card. So you are saying stay away from dell? I agree.

Anyone else?

14 looks so far no response...fella's pls dont abandon me, at least suggest what i should stay away from....

is this comp any good for music...Dell Dimension XPS 400, P4 2.8/80/512Ram/CDRW/DVD/128Ati/Sealed

or


DELL Brandnew Dimension3100 E310 DESKTOP P4 2.80Ghz 512Ram 80GbHd CDRW

Respect!!
R.I.P King

I currently use a G4 667 and while it served its purpose well, i need a PC primarily because I am going to be using Kontakt 2 intensively with Live and i need more horsepower. I am not that computer savvy so I was wondering should I worry about which manufacturer to but the PC from.

Can I just buy ...

There are some good dudes on this forum, however majority of you are very arrogant. If you can't help then just keep your trap shut. As i stated to begin with I am a novice, i have gottten pretty far ahead getting live running with no backround in computer music, mainly because I read read and read ...

Simply said, I am trying to multitrack into the arrange window in Live for mixdown, for instance 6 individual tracks with drum sounds from the MPC and and another 6 tracks generated from simpler.

How can I convert all the midi tracks into separate audio tracks in live.

thanks

Is it the case that the mpc has several outputs?

If so then all you need is a audio interface or soundcard that has multiple inputs and outputs.

i reccomend some of the emu systems as they are good, easy to use and come with loads of dsp plugins.

Hey wilxon I have the Hammerfall RME Multiface ...

Gentlemen...I am a novice using software so please bare with me. I have been configuring my system on my own so far and things are looking up.

I am basically trying to get some ideas on how to record my performances into live. I am using primarily MPC and Live, and i have live midi in to mpc sort ...

Hey, i am wondering if somone would be interested in giving me a few lessons in live. I can spare a few dollars per hour, if you are interestes please pm me. Looping audio is the primary area that need to be taught and if you a mpc that would great too......thanks

i will try it out ...thanks stinky

I have a Yamaha RM1X that i no longer use, and from what i undestand i can use it as controller if i assign functions such record/play /stop to the rm1 keys and knobs....could this be true.

I did re-intsall an unitor 8 driver from apple's website but it won't recognize the amt8....this is frustrating...please help.