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Fri 19 Mar 2004, 20:27
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Thu 8 Apr 2004, 15:30
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It all depends on what software you are using, and what you want to do with the studio. If money really is no object, and you want to use Protools, look at a Protools HD system. The DSP cards start at £6000 or so, A/D convertors to match will set you back the good part of £10000, and Digidesign is currently designing a control surface that will cost around £40000. Luckily after speding all that the software is included. Another alternative would be to fill the PCI slots of your G5 will Firewire cards and fill a 19" rack with MOTU 828 (about £700) or MOTU 896 (about £1100) audio interfaces. You can run (in theory) as many of these at once as you like, and each one offers about 10 analog ins and outs, and 10 digital ins and outs. Unlike the Protools system, while a simple audio sequencer is included, you have to pay extra for something with MIDI and clever features. Luckily the interfaces are compatible with most any OS X audio software. The 896 differs from the 828 in having a higher sample rate and more mic pre-amps. The MOTU interfaces have built in mixers, but no practical control built in, so MIDI fader boxes would probably be required. As mixing can be handled in either of my suggested solutions, a G5 with 8gb of RAM should handle any plugins you throw at it. The protools DSP cards also handle some plugins. Enjoy what sounds like a dream studio.
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Thu 8 Apr 2004, 19:33
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I will be using Logic Pro. Not Pro Tools. The main reason being that Logic has better integrated Midi features. Along with sound design, I will be composing music.
I have been researching the Apogee Rosetta 800. It seems to have higher end AD/DA converters compared to the MOTU stuff. Any thoughts on that?
Does anyone know if the Apogee runs smoothly with MAC OSX and Logic?
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Thu 29 Apr 2004, 14:12
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Check: Lucid converters or Lavry (4496) converters...and if the price of Rosetta ain't a problem, then you can't go wrong with that. Apogee is very good for the price point...ofcourse you canalways aim at the bigger/higher end of the game but its probably to much...you have to decide. AFAIK the Apogees, Lavry et al, are not in the same league as RME (its good but not comparable...no way). Check this guys, they have the "full story" on high quality converters: http://www.mercenary.com/lavry.html
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Thu 29 Apr 2004, 18:09
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Hey Cyan
In my opinion, the Apogee would be the way to go - for Sound Quality they have the optional Firewire 800 card that goes w/ most of their interfaces and you could get,for example, the Rosetta 800 ( 8 in / 8 out ) and add later when you need more channels - easy setup
G5 + Logic 6 Pro + Rosetta = MMMmmmm.......
the only reason I could see for getting the Pro-tools hardware ( using Logic as the front-end ) is the TDM plug-ins but I don't know if Digi has the PCI-X thing happening yet - maybe somebody else knows that or call Digi
Have Fun w/ your G5 !!!!
......running Logic since vers. 1.0..........
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