Any Advice for home studio? Options

[MoxieMike]

Hey. I have been lofting about it your forums and you guys all rock.

I am thinking about doing a home studio for my band and was wondering what you suggest. There would be guitar and vocals, some (limited) live percussion, keyboards and drum machine (midi) and some oddball instruments like cello, flute, etc etc.

I am thinking of going iMac G4 and getting some sort of USB interface (the $179 edirol looks good) and a behringer 16 channel board. (like, $250)

I would be using cubase 5.1, reason, b3 and absynth. And a slew of guitars.

Am i on the right track?

Thanks for your help.
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[macmax]

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kaboombahchuckPosted on April 19, 2002 - 7:03
Personally I would just run the behringer mixer strate into the sound in of the iMac (just like i have).  And then some type of firewire midi interface. I use the midiman 2x2 USB interface with no problems.
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Although i dont have one, analysis of the flat panel iMac spec on Apple.com reveals that it has no stereo line audio input!
Althougfh th onlder ones did.
Further more All apples input ports only ever supported upto 16 bit/44.1 Khz , which is really not good eneough for any serious recording.
There are 2 firewire ports, so it is not neccesary to 'save ' it for the audio hard drive.
1 for the Motu, 1 for a decently fast hard drive.
like i said before, Glyph make a stunning partner for the 828.
but any FAST firewire drive (LaCie studio drive for example) will do
Even iPod can do a little multi tracking. But read the articles in April & march 2002 Sound on Sound for precise comparative results.
I am not aware of Firewire Midi interfaces as yet, it would be a bit of a waste of all that bandwidth.
Be aware again that Mbox will only work properly , if at all, with Protools LE .
This effectively prevents freedom of choice with regard to which sequencer package you end up using.
The 828 and 896 Motus will work with ALL the major Sequencer APPS.
I believe the Midiman Usb Interface is also multi platform (seqencer wise~)
But it still has the limitation of being usb.
I Must point out also that USB bandwidth must be shared with any other devices on the buss, such as mouse , keyboard, midi interface etc.
( printer, scanner, camera blah blah)
Given firewires much greater transmission bandwidth i suggest you ignore USB for Audio.
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