24 bit recording - hardware upgrades -ACID Product Family

Subject:24 bit recording - hardware upgrades Posted by: rjshama Date:4/5/1999 6:48:15 PM I'm interested in recording my own loops at the best fidelity possible for my trusty P-200. Do I have to have a 24 bit sound card to playback 24 bit samples? If 24 bit is a bust for now, what's the cleanest way to get high quality loops into ACID? I have an AWE 64 sound card and I don't know whether I need to upgrade it to a SB Live! or Pinnacle Multisound or buy a dedicated DSP audio card like Darla or Gina, etc.. I still have to cough up $$$ for Mastering House and a CD-R, so I want to spend my $$$ wisely upgrading my computer. Thanks for your input.
Subject:Re: 24 bit recording - hardware upgrades Reply by: Date:4/5/1999 8:50:45 PM I wouldn't worry about 24 bit loops...that's complete overkill. By the time you do stretching and shifting, it's going to be moot. Depending on what you're recording, you may not need multi i/o...If your AWE is working out for you, then you're probably cool with it for a while. There are cleaner cards, but it sounds like you may need to invest your $$ in other places for now. You can certainly get a lot done on the AWE, then enjoy the increased fidelity of a new card later when it's a better time for you. -- Bruce A. Richardson Purple Iguana Productions bandmaster@sprynet.com rjshama wrote in message news:L4Xsui#f#GA.221@logan... > I'm interested in recording my own loops at the best > fidelity possible for my trusty P-200. Do I have to have a > 24 bit sound card to playback 24 bit samples? If 24 bit is > a bust for now, what's the cleanest way to get high quality > loops into ACID? I have an AWE 64 sound card and I don't > know whether I need to upgrade it to a SB Live! or Pinnacle > Multisound or buy a dedicated DSP audio card like Darla or > Gina, etc.. I still have to cough up $$$ for Mastering > House and a CD-R, so I want to spend my $$$ wisely > upgrading my computer. Thanks for your input.
Subject:Re: 24 bit recording - hardware upgrades Reply by: rjshama Date:4/6/1999 7:27:58 PM I'm mainly interested in recording my guitars and bass by running a Sans Amp GT2 straight into my AWE64. I was mostly concerned about the AWE64's fidelity. I did spend too much time recording guitar parts on cassette multi-tracks that ended up being unusable and I wanted to bypass that wasted effort this time around. Thanks Bruce!

Subject:24 bit recording - hardware upgrades

Posted by: rjshama

Date:4/5/1999 6:48:15 PM

I'm interested in recording my own loops at the best
fidelity possible for my trusty P-200. Do I have to have a
24 bit sound card to playback 24 bit samples? If 24 bit is
a bust for now, what's the cleanest way to get high quality
loops into ACID? I have an AWE 64 sound card and I don't
know whether I need to upgrade it to a SB Live! or Pinnacle
Multisound or buy a dedicated DSP audio card like Darla or
Gina, etc.. I still have to cough up $$$ for Mastering
House and a CD-R, so I want to spend my $$$ wisely
upgrading my computer. Thanks for your input.

Subject:Re: 24 bit recording - hardware upgrades

Reply by:

Date:4/5/1999 8:50:45 PM

I wouldn't worry about 24 bit loops...that's complete overkill. By
the time
you do stretching and shifting, it's going to be moot.

Depending on what you're recording, you may not need multi i/o...If
your AWE
is working out for you, then you're probably cool with it for a
while.
There are cleaner cards, but it sounds like you may need to invest
your $$
in other places for now. You can certainly get a lot done on the AWE,
then
enjoy the increased fidelity of a new card later when it's a better
time for
you.

--
Bruce A. Richardson
Purple Iguana Productions
bandmaster@sprynet.com

rjshama wrote in message
news:L4Xsui#f#GA.221@logan...
> I'm interested in recording my own loops at the best
> fidelity possible for my trusty P-200. Do I have to have a
> 24 bit sound card to playback 24 bit samples? If 24 bit is
> a bust for now, what's the cleanest way to get high quality
> loops into ACID? I have an AWE 64 sound card and I don't
> know whether I need to upgrade it to a SB Live! or Pinnacle
> Multisound or buy a dedicated DSP audio card like Darla or
> Gina, etc.. I still have to cough up $$$ for Mastering
> House and a CD-R, so I want to spend my $$$ wisely
> upgrading my computer. Thanks for your input.

Subject:Re: 24 bit recording - hardware upgrades

Reply by: rjshama

Date:4/6/1999 7:27:58 PM

I'm mainly interested in recording my guitars and bass by running a
Sans Amp
GT2 straight into my AWE64. I was mostly concerned about the AWE64's
fidelity. I did spend too much time recording guitar parts on
cassette
multi-tracks that ended up being unusable and I wanted to bypass that
wasted
effort this time around. Thanks Bruce!