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Funding Goal (continued) - an update
🕑 Added 2020-10-30 10:09:46 +0000 UTCOnce again, thank you everyone.
I wanted to update you about my Patreon goal, which has not changed and remains the same, in that I want to put all that I can into this.
The next investment will a computer that can process my audio tracks, more quickly and with better quality. At the moment I am using a borrowed DELL Precision Laptop, which is ok but has a limited sound card. I do have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (thanks to Lewis for the tip), which has improved the process of transferring the audio to the laptop.
I could use some more advice if anyone can offer this to me. Online experts say that I should be using something with at least 32GB of RAM, Multi-Core Processor like an i7/i9 equivalent and with a lot of storage (at least 2TB).
I do not have a lot of hardware experience, specifically for Audio & Visual work, so please if anyone can help and give me some advice I would really appreciate it.
I would like to continue with Audacity for editing, I know this program well. But I do have Ableton Live (with no clue how to use it), and of course my *assistant* uses bandlab which is online and a more Apple Oriented application.
So, please if you can spare some time - please can you help? Do I go Apple, Dell, HP or Microsoft? Or, something else? I just don't know, and there is the cost too which I need to keep as low as possible, and so I know how much to save up :-).
Thanks in advance x
Chanel
Comments
Robert Tycast
I use a hybrid solution. A Tascam 2488 Portastudio to do all the recording, and then transfer the tracks with USB to my laptop. I am using Cakewalk to do the mixing. This works well. Only disadvantage us if I want to do a punch recording after the transfer, I have to go back to the Portastudio, punch record the track and then transfer the new track to the laptop, replacing the previous take. I'm getting better at making sure I've got the base recordings where I want them on all the tracks, before I transfer them to the PC for mixing
Good point re fan noise. Worth looking at reviewers comments and look at PC reviews. You'll pay alot more for full metal chassis. Looks nice but do you need it?
