On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 06:34, et wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 09:10 am, logic7 wrote: > > You need none of that. Back in the day, we were recording 24 tracks with a > > P233mmx (w/scsi drives) or PPC 604e 200 (PowerMac 8600/200). > > > > It's like I said, it's all a matter of what you're recording. If you really > > want to spend $10000, then get the fastest SINGLE P4 you can get your hands > > on, a few hundred gigs worth of SCSI160 drives (find a small, 2-4GB UWSCSI > > drive for your swap file), Win2000 or XP (preferrably 2000), a matrox > > Parhelia vid card with triple head, 3 flat panel displays, 1.5GB RAM, AND a > > Creamware Scope SP with a few A16 i/o boxes. > > > > Of course, if you want to make it Linux compatible, you should look at the > > M-Audio audio cards, most of them are fully linux compatible. > thank you.. > > I had built "back in the day" this same guy a p2 /500 (bx440 chipset) with > scsi drives and an 3 gig ide boot drive (WINnt4), and he was happy for a long > time, but I guess he got some cash some where, and now wants to spend some of > it, so I was more than happy to offer to build his next box too. so he wants > a box that we put in the corner and use for the next 5 years, like the last > one. > since I hope to be able to convert his uses to linux, and I am so damn happy > myself with the way Mandrake handles my dual P3 1000s (especially compared to > win2k on the same box, M$ just does not handle SMP like linux and the > advantges just are not the same IMHO) I wonder if dual p4s are worth > anything, especially considering "multithreading" CPUs.
Ok if you really want to go "back in the day" during the 80's most of the home recording studio's (Home meaning not used by Record companies) where running Amiga 2000's In fact a number of them still do. Not only could the Amiga take input and output standard Notation you could input Notation and output Music. James
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