Sound engineering OS

sirusx69 · 05-11-2008, 05:01 PM

Hello there. I'm looking for a decent OS for sound engineering. I've explored many thus far including 64 studio and different windows distros but windows just uses too much resources for a full blown multimedia laptop and 64 studio is a little slow. Any opinions or suggestions in the house? and No i do not have the money for a mac so i'm kinda stuck at the moment.

Specs

AMD64 dual core 2.0Ghz
2GB Ram
160GB HDD
Nvidia Go 6100

johnhook · 05-12-2008, 06:39 AM

sirusx69,

Check out Adobe Audition (fromerly Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro).

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/

This is a very powerful, full-featured audio editor/mixer that runs on the Windows Platform. There are dozens of high-end DirectX and VST plug-ins to digitally process audio for just about any application you can think of.

http://www.harmony-central.com/Elect...software01.htm

Audition running on a dedicated Core 2 Duo or Quad processor PC with LOTS of RAM and hard drive will give you the same or better functionality and performance as anything the MAC platform has to offer.

I would forget about "consumer" audio hardware and look at high-end digital audio cards such as products offered by Digital Audio;

http://www.digitalaudio.com/digitala...187&PubID=4401

I've been using all of these products with very professional results for several years.

- John

05-11-2008, 05:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
sirusx69 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 50 OS: XP	Sound engineering OS Hello there. I'm looking for a decent OS for sound engineering. I've explored many thus far including 64 studio and different windows distros but windows just uses too much resources for a full blown multimedia laptop and 64 studio is a little slow. Any opinions or suggestions in the house? and No i do not have the money for a mac so i'm kinda stuck at the moment. Specs AMD64 dual core 2.0Ghz 2GB Ram 160GB HDD Nvidia Go 6100

05-12-2008, 06:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
johnhook Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 810 OS: MS SBS 2003 SP2	Re: Sound engineering OS sirusx69, Check out Adobe Audition (fromerly Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro). http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/ This is a very powerful, full-featured audio editor/mixer that runs on the Windows Platform. There are dozens of high-end DirectX and VST plug-ins to digitally process audio for just about any application you can think of. http://www.harmony-central.com/Elect...software01.htm Audition running on a dedicated Core 2 Duo or Quad processor PC with LOTS of RAM and hard drive will give you the same or better functionality and performance as anything the MAC platform has to offer. I would forget about "consumer" audio hardware and look at high-end digital audio cards such as products offered by Digital Audio; http://www.digitalaudio.com/digitala...187&PubID=4401 I've been using all of these products with very professional results for several years. - John