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(First published
in 2018)
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Prices
have really come down on some tech recently
- I picked up an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x eight-core
processor for around £170 - together
with a Gigabyte B450 AORUS M Motherboard,
16 gigs memory, An Nvidia GeForce 1650
Super Graphics card and a nice quiet
power unit - the whole build cost me
about £450 - which is still a
fair bit of money, but I now have a
super-fast rig that is near silent and
can handle absolutely anything - even
the latest games. Buy all the parts
seperately and assemble yourself to
save a small fortune (A rig with these
kinds of specs, bought from a shop would
give you very little change from £1,000)
P.S.
- I don't know what is going on with
tracktion at the moment (the company
keeps changing hands) - but T6 is not
as 'free' as I first thought (some 'try
before you buy' nonsense, which they
don't tell you until you've gone to
all the hassle of downloading and installing
it - bad tracktion !). If you're desperate
to get started - go for Tracktion 3
- it's still my go-to multitracker for
recording. (You may need Tracktion
5 or later for heavier mixing//mastering
jobs)
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Cheap
Option Get a dual/multi - core PC
(x64) , /
At least 4 gigs memory (preferably 16) buy an audio
interface (24 bits) , mixer and microphone from Behringer - (They do some really high spec stuff, all
ridiculously cheap).
Then get yourself a FREE MULTITRACKER,
or DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) -
I use Tracktion - very much the musician's multitracker,
especially
if you began back in the old analogue days.. I tried pretty much all of them.
I never got on with Cubase,and programs like Fruity
Loops, Logic, etc. always seemed more designed
for
electronic/dance music rather than for people who
play actual instruments.
I
haven't tried any of the free recorders below, but
give them a try - they may be a better fit for you.
Here's
a handy quick
guide
that
might help. As ever - the real skill is deciding
whether
you
want to be a musician or a technician - be warned
- the world of midi,
although a fantastic tool, can also be a huge 'rabbit-hole'
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I
can think of at least one major band who were ruined
by going down the
over-sampled,
over polished pro-tools route.
There
is an endless choice of VST plugins out there -
it just depends what kind of music you want to make,
and you probably
have a good idea already.
But if you're just after
some nice, straightforward,
analogue style plugins
for effects and production
then
you can do a lot worse than starting with
Kjaerhus's
Classic Audio Plugins
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