Just made a friend thatv graduated from IT that told me that if i upgraded to 4gs RAm I could do what i needed to do personally.
Can i upgrade to 4gs ram? Duo core? I am hyperthreading at 3.8GHZ. NOthing fancy there will be time for all that later.
I just want to be able to edit (which Audacity is already doing)and proghram drums possibly.
But i wanna know will i be able to run a drum kit via sonar. I can play all of my instruments enough to do the real thing.
NOT recording directly into the computer or making " made up beats" on some virtual software. If you were me and youi wanted to put put enough product to possibly finance further interest. I just wanted to know what i should, could get to get the best resilts with what i have.
I fully pol an on getting a macbook pro next in eight months or so. I'll use the other one for everything else i may need to do daily. synchronizatiomn and general work on tracks. Cut and paste, equilization, high and low pass filters. I do fully intend on just using the newer ones to run my apps and do my editing on. Just wanted to know what my limitations wouild be regarding running sonar. Ok I know that my computers are not the best or newest. It's not worth the upgrade and possibly the motherboard on the laptop isn't going to work at all for audio production. If the laptop only has 256MB of ram then forget that machine altogether. If you intend to surf the web and do office work etc then forget audio on these guys.
They should be good enough to do moderate work IF the computer is stripped down to it's very basics in Windows and all other programs are uninstalled and the Services are tweaked hard. They aren't going to handle VSTi instruments worth a darn and not too many tracks either. Do not daisy chain internal hard drives as it defeats the purpose of having them in the first place.īoth of those processors are quite aged but both can be made to work for audio provided your expectations are realistic and limited. On the desktop you can simply purchase a second/third/fourth internal drive and hook it up to it's OWN cable. If you need a second hard drive then do what everyone does and purchase an external usb or firewire drive. You are not going to be able to chain those two computers together for any benefit. Overall what is my best option until i get macbook pro next income tax refund? Am i good until? THATS NOT gonna jeapordize or compromise anything? I really like the optiplex and it will evcentually be my everyday comp.now may use it only for Sonar and music apps. Then to the 4150 inspiron as an ext HD? Does this seem right? (Saving for a macbook for next year with inc tax refund but need to get out product before then) Also any way to make both computers work off each other like a dual processor. once i get =" … Sonar X1? Will my optiplex run Sonar efficiently by itself? I am planning on recording everything thru the =" … Tascam NEO 2488 then uploading via usb to the Optiplex for editing.
256k of RAM.) How to xfer directly without going through the NEO or wirelessly? Further what is the best way for me to use these two computers regarding music editing and finalization. (just fixed it from a crash the day b4 i got the optiplex.that was fun.not)(1.8 GHZ and has a P4. 2gs of RAM64 bit OS.I have hyperthreading as well running windows 7.Ī Dell inspiron 4150 laptop. Specs :Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.80 GHZ 3.80GHZ. My brother in law just recently sent me a computer (DELL optiplex GX620)