You need none of that. Back in the day, we were recording 24 tracks with a P233mmx (w/scsi drives) or PPC 604e 200 (PowerMac 8600/200).
It's like I said, it's all a matter of what you're recording. If you really want to spend $10000, then get the fastest SINGLE P4 you can get your hands on, a few hundred gigs worth of SCSI160 drives (find a small, 2-4GB UWSCSI drive for your swap file), Win2000 or XP (preferrably 2000), a matrox Parhelia vid card with triple head, 3 flat panel displays, 1.5GB RAM, AND a Creamware Scope SP with a few A16 i/o boxes. Of course, if you want to make it Linux compatible, you should look at the M-Audio audio cards, most of them are fully linux compatible. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of synrat Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] building box for sound recording studio lol. no you need sun fire 10000 for this :) 90 cpus and 10 terabytes of ram On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jim C wrote: > I'm not entirely sure but this might be the sort or thing a MOSIX > cluster would be good for. > > Jim C. > > et wrote: > > On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > > > >>I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > >>use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > >>Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > >>for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. > >>Get at least 2gb of ram, the faster the better. I always use athlons, > >>because they work 3 times faster with floating point, but you may not need > >>that. > >> > >>On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote: > >> > >>> just got a very nice deal to build a box (in the next couple of months, > >>>quality is much more important than fast delivery) to run a sound > >>>recording studio. I would love to hear suggestions. Budget is to be less > >>>than $10,000.00 USD delivered, not including (professional) software. or > >>>sound card (will have an Audigy, but the studio owner has some other card > >>>he wants in the box along with the Audigy, and that card was over > >>>$900.00USD. I figure for about that I ought to be able to create a pretty > >>>nice and fast box. this box should be UFW scsi2 raid I guess, and I would > >>>love some first hand knowledge of fast-wide scsi2 cards and drives. I am > >>>also wondering about places I should be looking to check out some quad > >>>zeon mother boards. > >> > > thanks this is exactly the kinda discussion I was hoping for. got any good > > clues as to what chipsets to look for, or stay away from? I think (pretty > > damn sure) they want a SMP board of some sort. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 2/13/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 2/13/2003
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