 Basic Setup - Recommendations? |
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 15-Oct 03 From: St. James Parish - US Member No.: 26,852  |
I have been asked to set up a basic midi/recording/editing system for my 13 yo daughter. She has a Yamaha S80 kb, and wants to go to the next step. Although we are a PC house, I am seriously thinking about getting her a used/refurb Power Mac G4 for music. She wants to make and record techno/jazz, and besides the kb she wants inputs for mics, guitar and who knows what else.
Questions: should I get her an mBox, or would I be better off getting a used Digi 001 on eBay. Or something else??? Is Pro Tools LE easy for a (reasonably computer-saavy) 13 yo to use, or will something else be easier. Unfortunately, I am going to wind up being her IT support, so I want to keep this as simple as possible. But, I want to get her setup so she is happy with the results. All suggestions/comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, HB |
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Mon 20 Oct 2003, 15:15
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 15-Oct 03 From: St. James Parish - US Member No.: 26,852 |
Thanks again boze & jasonmaass for your replies. I ended up getting my daughter a Digi 002, after haggling a great deal from the local GC (> $1K). My daughter is happy; my wife less so ("You spent how much on an audio interface??? What's an audio interface?").
I kinda chucked the Digi 001 idea when I realized that it couldn't be reused when we upgrade the Mac later. I compared the 002 to the MOTU 828MkII, which seems like a good unit w/ some nice features. But, to her credit, the princess spent some time playing w/ both PT LE and DP, and she said that she prefered the Digi sw interface. So there we are. God, this s**t is expensive! All I can say is that I better start hearing some tunes PDQ... HB |
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Horse Bodotes Basic Setup - Recommendations? Thu 16 Oct 2003, 17:09
boze i'm gonna get attacked for saying this, but th... Thu 16 Oct 2003, 19:31 Horse Bodotes boze,
Thanks for your quick and informative reply... Thu 16 Oct 2003, 22:57 boze i think the arguments for and againsts a control s... Thu 16 Oct 2003, 23:25 jasonmaass Howdy.....I definitally recommend going with the m... Fri 17 Oct 2003, 05:24 boze :)she's a lucky girl- you should be set.
good... Mon 20 Oct 2003, 17:59
jasonmaass your daughter has got one cool dad...ok man good l... Mon 20 Oct 2003, 18:10 |
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