Suggestions for a music production/audio workstation PC

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saKe

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It has been a few years since I've looked into this kind of stuff and was hoping maybe a few of you might be able to point me in the right direction. Price range is 800-1000

Thank you in advance!
 
It doesn't really take much power, honestly. Any i5+ will own it. Spend your money on a good interface and some monitors.
 
I don't have a clue, really.

But I can say that I've bought Asus motherboards with 4+ x16 expansion slots, and that's worked well for me. Maybe that's important if you're dealing with a lot of I/O boards?
 
I haven't played around with this shit in a few years, but MOTU interfaces were the best I ever used. I don't have enough money to test all the monitors, but I liked my low-end mackies.
 
I picked up a pair of AV40's to hold me over and the right speaker goes out 1/2 the time and wasn't even worth the 120 I spent on them. What MOTU interface do you favor?
 
KRK monitors are very good for being able to hear what's happening in a mix. I own a pear of Rokit 5s. :D

Any old interface is great nowadays. The Presonus units are very nice, reliable; same with MBox. I use a Presonus FireStudio 26x26 and a FireBox....but Firewire is going out of style, giving way to USB. Presonus' new AudioBox USB interfaces are great.

For the type of stuff I think you're after, Ableton Live is pretty much it these days. For regular audio production I use Cubase. All the pro studios are either ProTools or sometimes Nuendo, but PT is where it's at for audio and lock to picture.
 
saKe said:
I picked up a pair of AV40's to hold me over and the right speaker goes out 1/2 the time and wasn't even worth the 120 I spent on them. What MOTU interface do you favor?
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honestly, all of them are pretty nice. What sets them apart are the drivers. Amazing software.
 
old_skul said:
KRK monitors are very good for being able to hear what's happening in a mix. I own a pear of Rokit 5s. :D

Any old interface is great nowadays. The Presonus units are very nice, reliable; same with MBox. I use a Presonus FireStudio 26x26 and a FireBox....but Firewire is going out of style, giving way to USB. Presonus' new AudioBox USB interfaces are great.

For the type of stuff I think you're after, Ableton Live is pretty much it these days. For regular audio production I use Cubase. All the pro studios are either ProTools or sometimes Nuendo, but PT is where it's at for audio and lock to picture.
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Do you ever have an issue w a single speaker going out w your Rokit 5's?
 
triple said:
honestly, all of them are pretty nice. What sets them apart are the drivers. Amazing software.
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I need something simple, I don't use instruments. I use softsynths and my Access Virus TI. Suggestions? Ive used Cakewalk Sonar + Reason for a while.. thinking of trying something new. I feel like I don't have control of the sound like I used too.
 
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