PC or MAC

Personally I'd stick with PC. I suspect if you're getting delay on your notes it will be either an issue with your audio interface, or in how its setup?

Macs are great for studio DAWs, but these days so are PCs with good software and interface just like you'd need with the Mac setup.

Welcome to MakeTunes too by the way, and happy new year.

Ah the midisport is just a midi interface, which lets you hook up midi devices, but doesn't provide audio processing hardware (which is needed to bring your latency down to an acceptable level).

Do you know what make/model your soundcard is? Chances are its not an ASIO compatible one if you're getting a noticable delay.

You should look into getting a solid audio interface, and once you load your ASIO drivers, you should be able to drop your latency in Cubase/Sonar/etc from like 200ms or whatever you're at now (big delay), down to 5 or 6ms (basically instant audible notes).

Even a card like the Audiophile would achieve this, and its only $99.

Yeah no problem Amittai - every discussion needs multiple perspectives bro. The Art Institute of Atlanta huh, that must give you a real good foundation of musical knowledge? How are you finding it?

I agree. I am a Dell Technician so you just bit into something pal.
Amittai here are the basic specs of a Dell Optiplex 740
-upgradeable to 8 gigs of ram.
-Duo Core Duo technology(the equivalent to a 10 gig processor in it baby, and it utilizes about a meg and a half in the frontside bus department pal. You can add a terabyte hdd in it and a 512 meg pci express card in it and you've just stomped every mac ever created and there are no problems. Besides man... there are wonderful programs like Norton Ghost bro. If I ever wanted to I can have my hdd imaged in 7 minutes flat. Software is a joke. Glitches are for the mentally unprepared and Mac and Pc will compete. But you've seen the commercials man. They are FRIENDS bro.
P.S. ONe of the hundreds of different PC managers should fight the commercials that Mac has produced, giving PC a bad name.
P.P.S. I have used PC since before windows came out. Back in the days of the automenu that you get to by booting to a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk and get to dos and then type in the exe command to get to the automenu. There is one program which escapes me now, that Mac bought out the rights for and I would love to have the program, but alas, no mac.

Yeah bro im with you on all that budd... PC v's Mac its all commercial hype.. A couple of years back when fucking alienware brought out a i think it was the "Area 51" pc, my mate was tempted to buy it for around £2700 (Phew) i convinced him i could build a better, nicer looking system for cheaper. I did it for £1700 and he got twice the hardrive gigage, twice the Ram memory which was 2 sticks twinned, a real meaty high quality switching power transormer, an awesome motherboard with support and built in wifi, he got a better sound card, and a better graphics card which was an Nvidia (golden sample) baby, plus he got an awesome cpu heat sync..it pissed all over the Area 51 and was much much cheaper and he was delighted with it....im sure you will agree SOLE build it yourself, and i i agree with you SoleBABY there isn't a MAc out there which can't be outbuilt by a hard ass pc

i dont trash Dell mate...out of all the prebuilt systems on the market Dell are the best "hands down"...i have repaired a few dell systems for people and i was impressed with the quality compared to the other heaps i've had to open up and repair for clients....If i had to buy a pre-built computer it would be a dell..but their are too many benefits from building your own, from the motherboard up..stay safe my alabama buddy

SoleMySole, they are friends... That's why I'm trusting y'all to honor my opinions... I'm not competing, I'm just expressing my experiences. Where I stand right now on any topic of discussion will probably change a few times in the next few years. In my belief ignorance is when you forget how to question your beliefs/opinions/views. I know I'm not always right, but at this point in my music studies I'd go with Mac for all practical purposes. That may change as I do. Also, all those points you made about PCs are valid, but I can't see far enough into my own future from here to know when I'd ever need to do any of that. My storebought Mac happens to handle everything I lay on it, just as is. Maybe if I had a PC I'd have to constantly anticipate those upgrades, but with a solid Apple set up there is no need to upgrade.

Matt, yes, the Art Institute goes over a lot of history of music and artists and producers... and also of the technical/studio side of things. Alot of my professors are professionals in the industry as well. The standards in equipment and knowlege for my program are set directly by the industry... Particularly the companies here in the southeast who will be finding their new employees at the Art Institute.

I hear ya man.

For the asio setup you should download asio4all.
which is a small program making it very easy to setup your soundcard (if it's asio supported).

also i noticed that at some places i can select MME or DX instead of asio.
but at battery i can only select asio. anyone knows what MME and DX is all about?

and amitai,
i'm considering buyin a mac, and i've read that a mac mini should do.
though i'd rather have a notebook then a "desktop".
i also need a firewire 6pin for my fw1814 since i got an us adaptor with it.
at this time i got my eyes on the macbook pro lighty adjusted, but the price went up to like 2900 € that's like 3100$.
which for the moment is a bit to much. but i'd rather wait a few months more.
and get a good mac, instead of buying one and a new one in 3 years or so.

maybe you can help me out.
i'd appreciate it big time!!!

Big up

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