[Jsonar] best computer for audio recording with sonar?

[Blake Hardin]

hello, thank you very much for that. Do you think a laptop or a
desktop would be better for this? i purchased my dell inspirion 1501
laptop for recording but like i said i have had no end of problems out
of thing from the hard drive dieing to having to send it back to dell
and they had to put a new motherboard in it. The computer is only 6
months old. here is the spects on the computer though
Manufactured and supported by: Dell Inspiron 1501
Mobile AMD Sempron(tm)
Processor 3600+
1.99 GHz, 1.87 GB of RAM
If i wasn't having all these problems from the unit would it be good
enough for recording? thanks

On 8/1/08, Mark Faben <mark.faben at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI,
>
>
> I'm certainly not an experct on this, wo can only say/advise of what I
> know from personal experiance; I'm sure others will come along and
> point out my mistakes and suggest more useful things.
>
> Basically I guess the most expensive you can is the answer; the more
> power the PC has the better it'll cope with running Sonar, the
> Opperating system, and of course JAWS at the same time; and of course
> in Sonar if you are using a lot of real time VST FX, and soft synths,
> this puts a lot more strain on the PC.
>
> I'd personally reccomend using XP as Vista still has a lot of audio as
> well as accessibility problems.
> A minamum 2 GB RAM (XP only supports up to 3 GB as far as I know), and
> get the fastest RAM you can afford (I have 2 GB DDR2 800 MHZ which
> seems to work well). Processer, at least a core 2 duo, again faster
> the better I'm not entirely sure about the quad core processers
> myself, I think they're still way overpriced anyhow.
> I'd personally recommend having two harddrives; one which has the
> opperating system, Sonar, JAWS and all the other main system files
> installed on it, and a secondary harddrive for storing sonar projects;
> I have 2 250 GB Seagate Sarta harddrives; make sure you get sarta as
> its just better speed performance and they're relaly quite cheap now.
> The PC case is actually pretty important; especially if you are
> wanting to mic up near the PC you';ll want somethign fairly quiet, and
> certainly something with good cooling to keep a busy computer running
> at a near optamum temp; I have the Antec p180 EU Alaminium super midi
> tower, which has the added advantage of looking incredibably cool...
> its runs pretty quiet, even with err I think all seven fans running,
> and its a nice big case for getting access to things and plenty of
> space on the back for connectivity.
> I probably went a bit overthe top on my motherboard, an Asus P5B
> Delux; its really designed for overclocking, but it has all the
> features I wanted and has potential for me to upgrade to a quad core
> processer without needing to change the motherboard, one note of
> warning on this motherboard is that you can forget the onboard
> soundchip/card, it just doesn't work at all.
> rr, then I guess the main thign left is soundcards, personally I have
> two; an external cheap little M-audio transit that I use for JAWS to
> run through, and again pretty cheap really an E-mu 0404 for use with
> sonar, which seems to be plenty good enough for my purposes. I won't
> talk too much of  soundcards as really there is so much choise, and
> cards to fit all budgets, weahter you go for firewire or internal or
> USB or a combination (be careful of conflicts particualrly between
> ahving two cards by the same manafacturer; E-Mu and Creative cards can
> be considered to be the same manafacturer, and I've heard a lot of
> people getting conflicts between, E.G., the 0404 or 1616 soundcard and
> more 'consummer' creative cards in teh same machien).
>
> Personally I'd recommend finding a good local PC guy who can build the
> machine for you; that way you can get what you want without having to
> get any crap bundled with the machine that you don't want. I built my
> machine, a little while back for about £700, and thus far it all seems
> to work well and cope with what I'm doing; of course plenty of system
> maintainance helps with this, defragging the PC is useually done a
> couple tiems a week on both drives which helps sonar along no end....
>
>
>
> On 01/08/2008, Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, this may be a litt off subject but could someone please tell
>> me the best computer to get for audio recording with sonar? i have a
>> dell inspirion 1501 computer and with a 2.0 gh duel processor and 2
>> gigs of ram. but i am having tons of problems with it. I have had to
>> replace the hard drive once and i just had to send it in for repair
>> about a week ago. The computer is only 6 months old. Please help me
>> out on this. Thank you.
>>
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