Andy, sweetwater.com is a great place to buy. Depending on the channels I think the Saffire Pro40 is a good start. It connects using Firewire, has eight channel inputs, two outputs for speakers, two headphone jacks, and consists of knobs for level controls and buttons for phamtom powered microphones. I also use an Axium keyboard, which uses a USB to plug into the computer. As for the guitar hardware someone else will have to answer that. Sweetwater customer service is remarkable. They've worked with blind musicians before and if you describe what you need they will most certainly match you up. Explain that you need the most hands-on, knob and button oriented hardware and they be delighted to help. I do not have any bad experience and everything I won, keyboard, control surface, microphones etc are from them.
I hope this gives you a start. Best of luck and do feel free to ask questions. That is why we have this list. Vaughn On 11/30/15, Andy B. <sonfir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am just getting started with Pro Tools. Unfortunately, most of the > hardware left from my previous stint with another DAW brand is sub quality. > I wish to start over with new equipment and hardware, but do not know what > equipment to purchase. I have a list of items with nowhere to find good > quality brands or models. Can someone help me out? The list with additional > notes where necessary is below. > > > > 1. Pro Tools 12.3 - On the way. > > 2. Control surface - price is not a concern. > > 3. Audio input for recording instruments such as vocals, guitar, and > keyboard - USB enabled with a direct input method. Price is not a concern. > > 4. Guitar amp modulator - portable, price is not a concern. > > 5. Keyboard - Must be portable, workstation type of playing. Must have > the ability to play soft synths/virtual instruments in Pro Tools. Price is > not a concern. > > I believe the list above will get me started for now. A note of importance, > I am completely blind, and cannot read anything printed on the screen or > device. My current computer is a MACBook Pro mid 2015 with 500GB flash > drive, 16GB memory, and an I7 with 8 processor cores. I have OSX 10.11 > installed. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Vaughn Brown Berklee College of Music Graduate, Bachelor in Music, Drummer, educator 504-202-8492 http://www.vaughnbrown.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
