Bette5000
07-20-2002, 10:22 AM
So I'm trying to set up a home studio. So far I have an iBook (which will eventually be replaced with a G4 of some sort) and a P.O.S. Yamaha keyboard that's used almost exclusively as a MIDI input device. I found a pretty good priced rack synth that I think I'm going to pick up soon. So what I need to know is how you get the sound from the synth box into the iBook with the spdif?
I'm also curious how people physically lay out their studios- I have a whole bedroom at my disposal.
Thanks, B
Rimmer
07-20-2002, 10:37 AM
Originally posted by Bette5000
So I'm trying to set up a home studio. So far I have an iBook (which will eventually be replaced with a G4 of some sort) and a P.O.S. Yamaha keyboard that's used almost exclusively as a MIDI input device. I found a pretty good priced rack synth that I think I'm going to pick up soon. So what I need to know is how you get the sound from the synth box into the iBook with the spdif?
I'm also curious how people physically lay out their studios- I have a whole bedroom at my disposal.
Thanks, B
You should look at either a USB or a Firewire audio interface. I think the cheapest USB ones are the Rolands. I don't know what they are like though..
People here have been moaning (me mainly) about a lack of mid priced Firewire audio devices. I think they will come but I don't know when. Suffice to say that Firewire interfaces aren't that cheap. Check out MOTU (http://www.motu.com/) for some current solutions.
Setting up a studio for me is as much about comfort and ambience as it is practical and technical. The main thing would be your monitors I suppose. You should find somewhere you can position them so you are in a triangular shape with them. If you monitors are 8 feet apart, then you should sit 8 feet away from each of them. This is standard (not the specific distance necessarily but it's close) practice for mixing in stereo. Each to their own...
If you are mixing in a room, the more damped the room, the better. If you can cover as many walls with rugs and the room with soft furnishings, then you will have a dryer environment to listen to your music in. Some monitors prefer to be nearer walls than others. Do some research.
Rimmer
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