Audio Recording Hardware
what is a better computer-based digital recording system: e-mu systems, digidesign m-audio or another system?
i’ve been exploring e-mu systems’ emulator and proteus software… as well as digidesign’s pro-tools… but i’m put off by digidesign’s m-audio and how it requires m-audio hardware – also the e-mu hardware appears to be more capable and of a higher quality… i want to use vst files, sequence, sample, etc. on a platform that is very capable and stable on the computer…need professional input. please only respond if you actually have knowledge and experience involving this subject-matter.
You make a point about vst plugins because pro tools doesn’t directly support them. Other than that, I think pro tools is the answer. I work with pro tools everyday and have for the past 7 or so years. If you go the m-powered route, you are required to have m-audio hardware, but this shouldn’t be a downside. M-audio continues to support more interfaces for pro tools, and cost & quality go hand in hand with any interface. M-audio has interfaces that support 24 bit 192KHz sample rates. That is the highest definition available in PCM recording to date. The cheapest interface that supports these numbers is the 24/192 card which can be found for about $140. The higher price interfaces really just allow more I/O.
If this doesn’t sell you, there is a way to use vst’s in pro tools. There is a sofware called vst to rtas wrapper.
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