Protools--vs--????, lost in the digi jungle----HELP!! Options

i am starting from the ground up with a home studio ....i definitly want a mac i have my own website and as well as being a musician/composer...im also an artist

what i need to know is basicaly this;;

what is the best and most cost efficant way to build a home studio that will be album quality and provide me with the warmth i enjoyed with 24 track 2'' tape --is this possible on a budget of a few grand or am i fooling myself??--------is protools the right way to go and what kind of mac is best 4 what im doing-----HELP PLEASE---

[Mr.T]

Ohhhhhhh Newbie !!!!!

[deleted]

put mister 001 in front of an ssl desk and you'll find that what he does with it doesn't sound anything like as good as what mr ssl trained engineer does with an 001.

Mmhh.. In the same situation, just replace the 001 with a 896 (just to name one :-) and you WILL hear the difference.
Sorry, but the A/D stage is VERY importnat, Digi001 is just not in the competition (really poor sound & dynamic IMHO, i did comparisons, even if subjectives)...

Sorry if i misanderstood the original post...

Bye.

[beezkneez]

hey i read that sting is recording right now using an m-box, a mac, and logic... italy or somewhere i ferget but that's gotta be encouraging for all us mac musicians

[damann]

hi beezkneez,
what this means in reality is that he's signed an endorsement with digi and they asked him to do some promotion work for the mbox.
i'm sure he's probably using it occasionally for putting ideas down when he's not in the studio, but will confidently place my bet that he's NOT making the album on this setup...
digi would obviously like to encourage us mac musicians to buy an mbox!
don't believe the hype.

[rickenbacker]

On this subject, is anyone out there using an Mbox with Logic? If so, how's that working out for you? I know we're not supposed to use the Mbox with anything other than PTLE (Digi frown on such activity!) but some reports from the frontline would be interesting.

[damann]

a good point,
yes, it works fine with logic.
there's an asio driver for it available on the steinberg site, that digi don't seem to want to mention!

[rickenbacker]

Hmm, interesting. I'm still caught in this weird OS 9/OS X limbo - I've got Logic 5.3.0, but not many interfaces have drivers ready for OS X. I think the Mbox has a decent sound for recording, but what are the chances of getting it to work in OS X?

[damann]

realistically, there is no limbo state,
os9 provides a great resource for making music, osx, well, dosen't!
the only reason to be making music with osx right now is your wanting to...
it will take at least a year for osx to gain the support that 9 already has! in the meantime, is an os more important than what you do with it?
i don't think so...

[rickenbacker]

"the only reason to be making music with osx right now is your wanting to... "

Yep! I'm not alone in this, though, am I?

[urbanmatador]

> "the only reason to be making music with osx right now is your
> wanting to... "

> Yep! I'm not alone in this, though, am I?

i agree, audio in osx isn't really viable yet, but i also agree with rickenbacker, i'm currently in the limbo state of using os 9 because that's what works, but preferring osx... i'm basically waiting to see whether protools or digital performer gets to osx first...

anyone have comparisions between those two (digi vs. motu)?