As a musician and engineer, I have a natural interest in recording music since 1970. Then we had to use a role to multitrack recorder, which I partly owned coil with five friends, this was far from ideal, but it gave me a great insight in the film-editing tracks and timelines. If we saved enough money in the '80s, we moved to a dedicated hard disk recorder. This was a big step from recording to tape, but still not an ideal solution, as weshare resources among the five of us, and it was just one of many, many other components from which the shots. The computers in those days, with the basic PC sound cards, MIDI sequencing so nice with a keyboard sounds on board, we dare not ask them to do much more, because they were just as unreliable. In 80 years, operating systems, not as robust as they are now, and frequent crashes and blocks were abundant and only a part of the process we had to do.This has meant that the inclusion of a simple song, with guitar effects pedals, a drum pattern (created on the midi sequencer), bass and keyboards, have at least 4 days. However, this was much less expensive than hiring a recording studio and engineer.
I bought my first serious desktop computer in the early '90s and that was the norm then it came with a PC computer sound cards. I am a great lover and home recording enthusiast, I naturally rushed to buya top end sound card as long as I have informed the work. I remember that simply adapt PCI sound card and run it was a long and trouble with drivers and compatibility with operating systems has been a constant frustration. It seemed to me that even if the technology was available at the time, compatibility problems have meant that it is not possible, a personal recording studio at home, which was reliable. But with the addition ofDigital sound card at this time, computer games suddenly alive!
My first real PC sound card Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, was a thing of beauty. The box itself has filled me with hope and excitement (sorry - I know). I bought this when I am on my third or 4 Update the computer was about 2,001 ° then in 2004 moved to Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ES, the first generation that included break-out box. This was a major step in the recording quality, and 5.1Surround sound, and coupled with Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio, is now able to record live music directly to the multitrack software, adding sound effects and digital mastering stratification. The only question I had was not enough hard disk space and processing power. The technology has yet to recover and be accessible.
Finally, these days I use a much more powerful desktop computers, with more than a terabyte of hard disk space and a Novation Nio 2 / 4 USB portable audioUSB interface / sound card. I took one of the many USB ports. This is a great little device allows me to balanced microphone input with phantom power via XLR. It has an input for electric guitars and keyboards, external MIDI is ideal for virtual control through instruments, has two output jacks to the volume-controlled headphones. I released on 2 / 4 amp to a Rotel Nio monitored with gold RCA and a pair of Tannoy flat frequency response. This is the home recordingBudget, but the results I get as good or even better than it was created by professional recording studios back in the '70s.
In the two years with my dream, I created more than 30 live performances, the two albums for a dear friend who had just written in his late 50's some great love songs as early as 1960 unfolds. He plays 12-string acoustic, electric, and with the help of two other friends we survived his songs purchased with the additionalLive saxophone, bass and drums. We also used harmonies and I can easily master the tracks with their own mastering tools. He wanted his songs to bring in the 21 century, and took him to a recording of his dreams from behind, as was a young man. What took me four days in 1980, I can do it in 3 hours, and my friend who is now his songs will be included on the moon. Sound cards for PCs have come a long way.
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