What PC is good for producing beats on?

Arrseholio

ie. what speed ---> 1 ghz?
Decent soundcards?
Microphone?

I'm looking for a fairly basic setup, for a basic price
but ---> is very effective.

Also how big should your hardrive be? How much space does each tune take up etc...

Thanks,

Mike.

tiger

500+ mhz
20 gb hard drive
128 mb ram
Sound Blaster Live sound card
8x CDRW

this is my set up, and it's enough for me. cost me $300 to have it special built, think that was a good price

Sen

you can make tunes on pretty much anything, depending on software really.

Find what software you want to use, then buy a computer to exceed the minimum specs for the gear.

Johnny Xmen J

If your budget permits..

Try a custom made machine,
a company called Carillon built a machine for me.

Model AC-1
2.2 GHz P4
512 RD RAM
20 + 60 Hard Drives
Delta 10 10 Sound card.

Does the job for me...

tnt

"Try a custom made machine,
a company called Carillon built a machine for me.

Model AC-1
2.2 GHz P4
512 RD RAM
20 + 60 Hard Drives
Delta 10 10 Sound card. "


That's a wicked spec.

BREAKER

Go for 1Ghz and over, at least 256 Ram, and a 40 Gig harddrive, the rest is up to you.

JJ

PC? whats wrong with you lot.

Arrseholio

Thanks everyone

JJ are you using an Atari or whatever they're called?
Like Mr Norman Cook uses?

With a Moog soundsystem??

Thanks Johnny X-Men J, that sounds like a good idea

Acid-D

mines
700 mhz
256 ram
hercules gamesurround fortissmo 2 (nice sound card )
dvd rom
cambridge soundworks subwoffer with 4 speakers
can make music well easy
and a 15 gig HD but i need another 1

mRstuN

get an mpc u losers!

Morph

ok iam running

4.2Ghz

512 Of sd ram (this will run your machine 15% faster) Than DDR ram

180 Gig hard drive

52 Speed Cd burner

DVD Drive

Geforce4 Graffics Card

Extenal Cd Burner (Yamaha)

Sound Blater Audigy Platinum EX

Tekram Scsi Card

Custom Made mother board (this is most important)

Most things in the list are going to really drop in price as new $$$$ will be about so for a badbwoy pc pay just over a grand and that will have all you need

lastset on the market is a 180 gig drive if you got bare change then this mummas about 200

Sen

4.2 GHz?

Danger D

NO WAY

Morph

sorry two words dual processors

my uncle makes pc parts and having a custom made mother board allows me to do so

Deejay PR

That's an absurdly powerful PC.

All I can say to anyone buying a new one is: don't touch Windows 2000 with a bargepole.

I'm on a 1.6ghz Athlon (1800XP), with 512 RAM, 80 gig drive, M Audio Delta 66.

Sen

Me, I need to up the processor

But it's a G4 Mac running OS9.2 (will update this someday)

733 Mhz processor
1.5 Gb SDRAM
40, 40 , 60 GB HD, 2 internal @7200RPM 1 external firewire @7200 RPM
NVidia G2 32Mb Video card <- I want a titanium with 2 monitors.

MOTU Firewire 828 audio i/o
Running Cubase, Reason, etc. etc. etc.

DFX

Dual Processors? You use your PC for games innit. I bet you never opened an production program in your life... IT DONT WORK WITH DUAL PROCESSORS.

Deejay PR

LOL, that's a good one.

boosted

The current Spec for a WinPC should be:

DualAthlon 2GHz
512MB RAM
Whatever soundcard you like, but do some research and get one with low ASIO latency number in the 5ms range.
As large a harddrive as you can find, ATA133 minimum

As for software, again, PC speaking:

Windows 2000 or XP
Reason 2.0
CubaseSX (stick with Cubase since Logic has dropped it's PC lineup)

And DFX, you're wrong ... most new PC audio apps are dual processor enabled, and many plug-ins are as well.

That's like the best thing you could buy today. Now, I work on something much less powerful and still can make fairly complex tracks ... so it's really up to you how involved you're going to get with the productions.