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from: `Chris Blandino`
date: 1997-07-23 00:00:00
subject: Re: HD Recording on Pentium PC ..?

For Midid you are probably OK.  For regular audio tracks, the CPU/RAM is
fine, and the hard disk will probably be OK up to about 8 tracks (possibly
more...it depends on the specs of your drive, SCSI is the way to go for
mucho tracks), but the Sound Blaster card isn't the best.  I know it's the
best 'Sound Blaster', but Creative Labs tends to favor the game market over
the musician market.  Their 'full-duplex' drivers sometimes have problems
(i.e. playback while recording is of lower quality, etc.).  A card which
seems to have gotten great reviews is the Card D+ from Digital Audio Labs. 
It's about $600 though.  The big news in cards though is that several new
cards will be hitting the market soon (next 30-180 days) that are generally
PCI based (as opposed to ISA - i.e. no IRQ's), and have multiple audio ins
and outs instead of the single line-in out kacks on cheap cards or stereo
pairs on yuor SB Gold.

Later,

Chris

Marco Gesiot  wrote in article
...
> Hi MIDI People !!
> 
> Do You Think That a system like ..
> 
> 	Pentium Pro 200
> 	64 Mb RAM
> 	4.5 Gb. EIDE HD
> 	SB AWE64 Gold 
> Could be suittable for Hard Disk Recording ?
> What else do I need "
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 	Mark Gesiot
> 	magesiot@tin.it
> 

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