Okay, I'm hoping to be at uni again in about 18 months. During that time, I'll be working, saving for spending monies and a lappy or small desktop.
Although it'll be for work, I know pretty much everything has word processing and internetting on it.
But for recording, where should I go?
I'll be getting a demo of logic X from a mate soon, so I might be interested in that. He says there is a genre virtual drummer thing that works great, and he uses BFD3 with it as the midi triggers match or... Some technical shit.
So, pc or Mac? I'll have an android phone probably, for what that's worth.
Comments
I want to use BFD3 and it's grooves to record, but other than that it'll probably be software amps or maybe an amt or blackstar amp/preamp. Depending on how the ID CORE series sounds.
Just a simple set up really.
https://www.studiowear.co.uk/ -
https://twitter.com/spark240
Facebook - m.me/studiowear.co.uk
Reddit r/newmusicreview
I should add, I'd like growing room so I can work on my slightly naff sounding stuff now, but have the capacity to grow into a more sophisticated set up, software or hardware.
I have only ever used Macs and home or the studio. Partly because of a long standing dependence, partly because of a snobbery that that long standing dependence has caused me to develop and partly because I'm a self-harmer and enjoy the fact that any time I need to update any part of Pro Tools I have to update every other damned thing on it as well. Bare in mind these are running solely as recording computers.
That said if you are looking at it value for money wise and you aren't exactly flush a PC wins hands down. The baseline cost for an adequately capable Mac is about 2 & 1/2 - 3 times that of an equivalent PC.
Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
I have never had or used a mac but I know they are well loved.
On a purely money basis?? I have just spent £185 on an Asus M5A97 LE 2.0 MOBO and a AMD FX 6300 3.5G 6core Black Edition processor and I now have a pretty badass music PC. Ok, it is not an i7 8 core paint peeler and I have not stressed it at all so far but running Radio3 HD, Samplitude recording same and internet is glitch free for hours (2X M-A 2496 cards) . The CPU cores are doing pretty much 0- 2% much of the time so lots of capacity there?
Ok so I had to buy a case from the PC repair guy down the street (the one I had was too small) 30quid with a 350W PSU, and DVD buner! I had to spring for Win 7Home 64 bits and I already had 6G of stick about. So, a fair total would perhaps be £350 for a computer that will surely do anything the home jockey will need ?
I understand that for portable use the MacBook Pro is pretty untouchable? Mind you my HP i3 Win7/64 lappy runs 20tracks of Cubase LE6 and only breaks a sweat of ~30%CPU grunt, that's using an NI, KA6.
Dave.
Also, budget for a good sound card/interface.
Have you thought about both in one handy device?
Cough, hackingtosh, cough..
If not, some sort of Mac with Logic.
Either way you STILL need a good sound card that'll cost you £50-£150 on top - I wouldn't bother with PCI based cards anymore, go USB.
The upgrade saga @digitalscream recounted mirrored my journey from Windows XP (worked a treat) to Windows Vista & 7 - left high and dry without a workable solution. This is why I first dabbled with a Mac Mini & Garageband/Logic. I moved on to a MBP later.
The Mac Mini lasted 3 yrs and the packed up - not been able to re-breath life into it yet, despite a new disc (can't get it to boot).
My other 2 main music software programs Reason and Ableton work fine on either platform.
Not really done anything with my iPad musically, but will probably give that a try soon.
Feedback
FWIW I'd take the same approach with a PC.
"Nobody is really researching robot jokes"
PC w/ W7 64 here, M-Audio 192, Guitarport as an interface, BFD2, Garritan GPO4 orchestra, Proteus for synths, loads of VST's and FX galore. Rarely skips a beat. YMMV