sb live! or emu aps?

eeka · May 11, 2004, 02:39 AM

Hi,

I'm so chuffed I came across you guys through a search engine, I will definately donate something once I'm up and running! I am in debt to those who write the drivers for old quality components, to use on xp and 2000. Using your pc knowledge for good instead of those hackers, who destroyed many man hours of downloads(I learnt the hard way, I use a firewall now and backup everything on cd-rws!).

I am just starting to get into music on the pc, and need a little advice! My main PC is 2500xp,768ddr ram, and a soundblaster live! with that digital I/O card(which is connected to a decent Home receiver), and tomorrow I will be winning(fingers crossed) an auction for an emu aps card on ebay. I also have a PC that is k-5 500mhz, 128mb sdram, which I was planning to put the emu aps card into and connect my midi keyboard and load sonar 2 onto it(my copy of sonar 2 won't load onto xp, only win 98), and use that as my music PC. My questions are which is the better card? and should I use my more powerful PC for the music and buy some new software, or is the old one adequate with the card not requiring too much power out of pc? Please help, I'm still very green on the subject and dont know if I should have posted here? My main reason, and my 1st project is to record my little sisters(shes only 10) keyboard achievements, accompanied with her vocals, shes got a nice singing voice, was just going to use a decent PC mike to do this! and then burn it to a CD.

Can anybody help, please?

Thanks Dave

miguel · May 11, 2004, 11:18 PM

a thread you might find informative, here

About the mic, if you want to stay on the cheaper side, id suggest a decent dynamic microphone. Even a 10-15 dollar/euro of the kind that are used on home karaokes and similar will do wonders compared to a PC mic, and will do a better couple with the aps e-drive. Phillips, sony. etc make lots of those "ok" microphones.

For the computer, I think the old one is fine for now. If you find yourself really hooked and needing more audio tracks or effects you can always upgrade the sofware leater to run it on the bigger XP PC. I'm pretty sure that being properly configured, the old pc can play 8 audio tracks with effects. And don't forget the aps has two soundfont synths that don't task the cpu and sonar interfaces well with those for loading soundfonts, reading program (instrument) names etc.

Several years ago i had a similar system that worked just fine for similar projects to yours. It was a k2-450 with windows NT4, cakewalk (predecessor of sonar) and a live card. A friend and I recorded several tracks with usually 4-8 audio tracks and 1-2 midi tracks (playing the sb live's synths). There were no kX drivers back then...

PITmaster · May 17, 2004, 10:01 PM

Hey miguel,

Did you, at last, try condenser microphone with your aps?
I've tried.

PITmaster

May 11, 2004, 02:39 AM	#1
eeka DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lancs, uk Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	sb live! or emu aps? Hi, I'm so chuffed I came across you guys through a search engine, I will definately donate something once I'm up and running! I am in debt to those who write the drivers for old quality components, to use on xp and 2000. Using your pc knowledge for good instead of those hackers, who destroyed many man hours of downloads(I learnt the hard way, I use a firewall now and backup everything on cd-rws!). I am just starting to get into music on the pc, and need a little advice! My main PC is 2500xp,768ddr ram, and a soundblaster live! with that digital I/O card(which is connected to a decent Home receiver), and tomorrow I will be winning(fingers crossed) an auction for an emu aps card on ebay. I also have a PC that is k-5 500mhz, 128mb sdram, which I was planning to put the emu aps card into and connect my midi keyboard and load sonar 2 onto it(my copy of sonar 2 won't load onto xp, only win 98), and use that as my music PC. My questions are which is the better card? and should I use my more powerful PC for the music and buy some new software, or is the old one adequate with the card not requiring too much power out of pc? Please help, I'm still very green on the subject and dont know if I should have posted here? My main reason, and my 1st project is to record my little sisters(shes only 10) keyboard achievements, accompanied with her vocals, shes got a nice singing voice, was just going to use a decent PC mike to do this! and then burn it to a CD. Can anybody help, please? Thanks Dave __________________ cheers

May 11, 2004, 11:18 PM	#2
miguel DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 209 Rep Power: 0	a thread you might find informative, here About the mic, if you want to stay on the cheaper side, id suggest a decent dynamic microphone. Even a 10-15 dollar/euro of the kind that are used on home karaokes and similar will do wonders compared to a PC mic, and will do a better couple with the aps e-drive. Phillips, sony. etc make lots of those "ok" microphones. For the computer, I think the old one is fine for now. If you find yourself really hooked and needing more audio tracks or effects you can always upgrade the sofware leater to run it on the bigger XP PC. I'm pretty sure that being properly configured, the old pc can play 8 audio tracks with effects. And don't forget the aps has two soundfont synths that don't task the cpu and sonar interfaces well with those for loading soundfonts, reading program (instrument) names etc. Several years ago i had a similar system that worked just fine for similar projects to yours. It was a k2-450 with windows NT4, cakewalk (predecessor of sonar) and a live card. A friend and I recorded several tracks with usually 4-8 audio tracks and 1-2 midi tracks (playing the sb live's synths). There were no kX drivers back then... Last edited by miguel; May 11, 2004 at 11:36 PM.

May 17, 2004, 10:01 PM	#3
PITmaster DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 266 Rep Power: 0	Hey miguel, Did you, at last, try condenser microphone with your aps? I've tried. PITmaster