Electronic Music Options

[moonboo]

Hi Im in my senior year of highschool and for my graduation present my parents are going to buy me some gear for creating music. Ive wanted to create my own electronic music for a long time but could never afford or had a fast enough computer. Since Ill be doing electronic music Ill be dealing with a lot of midi and synthesis. Ive a lot of reserch and have come up with the following

-imac G5, 1gig of ram external hardrive-
-Ni Battery, Reaktor, Kontact
-Korg legacy collection
-Korg Kontrol49 keyboard
-Edirol fa101 or motu 828mkII (dont know if i need the motu for what im doing)

As for my DAW i cant decide. For along time Ive been leaning towards live 4 but Ive been hearing a lot of things about how great more advaced programs like logic and pro tools. I like to have a very capable system but do I really a larger program or would live be okay. At least for now Im going to do everything in the box and eventually buy a console and some hardware. Also would peak be of any use to me. If anybody could give me some adive or opinions that would be great. Thanks

Ce message a été modifié par moonboo - sam. 22 janv. 2005, 04:55.

[chmara]

1. Get the second Gig of RAM, make sure outboard is at least 7200 RPM and 250-500 gig. Think about having the 250 gig internal in the IMac -- as mine is half full of samples ikn less than three months....

2. Get Kontakt 2.0 if you can wait -- and Right NOW get Albino 2 for 30 Per cent Off at EW Soundsonline (during NAMM) or:

3. Skip the Korg Legacy - Get some broader Stuff and/Or (FREE)
Synths such as Crystal with 9 LFOs and mucho sound tweeking to work with. I would say the availabilities arer well past ther Korg Legacy unless you are in love with retro sounds and do not want to play with them much.

4.Get (even though bigger in size ) the M-Audio Studio 88 -- under $500 it is awesome at the price!

5. Battery/Reactor should be evaluated against Spectrasonics Stylus RMX before a buy is made...so you can properly purpose your percussion.

Make sure you have superior monitors -- the move to 24 bit gives some wonderful richness not available in the old 16 stuff, but takes more CPU (thus 2 Gig +)

Good luck.