The Sound Card Is The Heart Of
At the heart of your computer the sound card is for music production.
- Amateur and professional sound cards these days have hardly any latency information, the latency is hardly longer than the Buffer length is. A - and output latency should be below 20 ms.
- The sound card must have at least CD-quality, so a sample rate of 44100 Hz and a Bit depth of 16 Bit support. Reasonable 48000 Hz at 24 Bit, what is often referred to as "DVD-quality" are.
- In addition, you need at least one analogue Stereo input and a Stereo output.
- Internally or externally? Internal sound cards are cheaper. PCI is not enough, you need PCIe. External sound cards for Desktop PCs and Laptops to use and easy to take anywhere.
- USB or Firewire? If it is an external Audio Interface, you should rely on Firewire, if you have other Firewire devices. Otherwise, the more common PC-port is USB3. USB2 is sufficient, if you do not want to record dozens of channels at the same time.
- With or without the mixer? You have an analog mixer, you can bring this all the devices to the Computer. If not, you must bring your sound card a microphone input with Pre-Amp and phantom power, and one or more Line inputs. Then the purchase of a digital mixing console that acts as a sound card is worth it.
- Effects including? Many sound cards have implemented good hardware effects, the card architecture is optimized and, therefore, is particularly resource-friendly. You need this, or do you have enough professional Software effects?
- The cheapest sound cards, the USB Interface, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, the gigitale mixer Behringer XENYX and the internal PCIe-sound card ESI MAYA.
- This is it at the usual Online retailers, such as Just Music, Music Store Professional , and Thomann for about 100 Euro. This is the absolute Minimum.
- S/PDIF-enabled speakers, you must have a sound card with S/PDIF output. So you can send the Signal to interference - and loss-free to your active speakers.
- You have speakers with a balanced input, be sure that your sound card has balanced outputs. The can Jack or XLR be.
Digital mixer as a sound card
More Hardware for music production
For a smooth music production you need besides a fast and professional sound card, other Hardware. Here there are several possibilities. The following, you must observe while selecting a PC, or put together. The subsequent picture gallery will give you more tips and food for thought, if you already have recording Studio equipment to have.
- Many Software effects and synths require a lot of memory to run smoothly. These are not expensive, so you should afford at least 8 GB or better 16 GB.
- This means that you need a 64 Bit System. Most of today's PCs with Intel i3, i5, or i7 or or AMD Phenom II X4 or X6 processor for music production, especially if you opt for a good sound card, which decreases the processor most of the bills.
- Tens to hundreds of tracks in a 5-minute Song in DVD quality, a Sampler with a 100 GB Library... for that you need a hard drive with at least 250 GB of memory.
- Optimally, A SSD hard disk on which you install your operating system and music software, including Sample Libraries is here:. Here you also store the projects you are currently working on.
- On an additional HDD drive you don't save anything you are working with. Whether you are looking for 250 GByte or 1 TByte are appropriate, depends on how diligent you produce music.
- You can get an external HDD for regular Backups to be made.
- A PC with a Midi-Tower is generally less expensive, easier to expand, not upgrading, overheating so quickly, and the loud ventilation under the table is further away from you and the microphones. A Laptop is mobile and takes up less space. You need to consider what is more important to you.
- Many of the tracks, the mixer in your DAW and the synth - and effect-control request according to at least one large Display. For an optimal Overview, you should work with 2 screens.
- If you opt for a Laptop, think about purchasing a Docking Station. Here you have the second screen, keyboard and mouse and all other Hardware plugged in, you don't need in the mobile application.
- A few effect devices, for example, some of the Convolution-reverb plug-ins, don't count on the processor and sound card, but on the graphics card. You have such an effect, or you are planning to purchase, you will also need a powerful graphics card.
- You already have the Studio Hardware? Then, make sure whether you connections, for example for Firewire 400, Firewire 800, MADI or MIDI-USB Interface need.
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