Just bought a new computer-- confused

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

Just games. Everything else will be tip-top perfect.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject:

will be = should be

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088

Well, time will tell. If it doesn't work out, then I will be their first guy to give them bad feedback, and believe me, I'll do it!

Honestly, unless they do a hack job, I am pretty easy to please. If I had it to do over again, I may have tried to commision you to put one together for me. But, if they are being honest about it all, it will be about 5-10 times as good as the computer I currently have. And even being just as good with slightly more ram and double the hard drive would be good with me.

I am thinking about making this one run on Linux once I get the new one. I am just very unhappy with the security settings of XP home.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

The amount of ram you're getting is sure nice. 4 times what I have. Smile

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088

And 8 times what my Emachines has ;p

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088

Should be good for the pro tools!

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

That should be good on that, yes--if you have what I'm not sure if I remember correctly--didn't you say you had an m-audio card of sorts--or was that something you were thinking about? I could be trippin'. The thing about pro-tools for the pc is that you either need to find a rare version somewhere or you need to get hardware that it will use. The version I am using is for m-audio hardware and it's not nearly as much as the version that only uses Digidesign hardware. If you do have an m-audio sound card, get the m-audio version, it should be labeled as "m-powered". For further info on more specifics, please PM.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088

I have an "M-Box," probably the same thing? Anyway, tonight I finished a song-- one of my best I have done by far to date-- but I had to scale thing back and strip it on my Emachines because the computer just couldn't handle all the layers. It kept freezing up and stopping and saying the "CPU CAN'T HANDLE" it or something like that. Big time bummer, because the song totally RULES. BUT, Hopefully the new computer will be able to handle it betetr.

As for soundcards, does my new computer have one? If not, big time whooopps! Hopefully it does!

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088

Hey, for now, if I were to import the finished song onto a new file and add to it (that is, after the bounce) would that totally ruin the sound quality?

What i mean is, taking the finished wave file that I had to strip down a little, importing it into a New Song, and then adding the layers back to the single WAVE FILE. Would that work or is that going to totally ruin the sound quality.

Kizzume · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:34 am Post subject:

If you save it at a high quality, non-compressed (aif, wav) 96,000 and at 24bit or 32bit-float, you wouldn't be ruining the sound quality.

I don't know what you mean by "adding the layers back to the single wave file".

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1088