{"id":49,"date":"2005-04-27T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T06:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-04-27T00:44:45","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T06:44:45","slug":"low-cost-music-recording-gear-for-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/low-cost-music-recording-gear-for-a-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Low cost music recording gear for a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me for suggestions on buying a sub $1000 PC music recording system.  What I suggested certainly is not the cheapest option, but it should deliver very good results.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steinberg.net\/ProductPage_sb3444.html?Product_ID=2443&#038;Langue_ID=4\">Steinberg Cubase SL3<\/a> &#8212; recording software\n<p>Musician&#8217;s Friend has Cubase SL3 for $300.  The main reason I like it over Sonar is that it has this nifty feature called Cycle Recording.  Cycle Recording allows you to record several takes of a performance and then select the bits out of each take that you like.  In the end, you get a single take that&#8217;s made of the best parts of the actual takes.  That is a great feature for a hack like me.  8)  Otherwise, most of the other features are comparable.  Cubase requires at least an 800MHz processor.  It comes with both a PC and a Mac CD, in case you move to Mac in the future.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echoaudio.com\/Products\/PCI\/Layla3G\/index.php\">Echo Layla3G<\/a> &#8212; recording hardware\n<p>I looked through the last 6 or 7 Keyboard magazines, but they didn&#8217;t focus much on recording gear.  I currently have an ancient Layla by Echo that has served me very well, so if the updated version is near the quality of the old one, I recommend it.  It has 8 analog ins (2 that auto-sense mic, guitar, or line level), 8 analog outs, a stereo headphone out, and a variety of digital I\/O.  You need an available PCI slot.  Musician&#8217;s Friend has the Layla3G for $500.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does anyone have music recording gear suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me for suggestions on buying a sub $1000 PC music recording system. What I suggested certainly is not the cheapest option, but it should deliver very good results. Steinberg Cubase SL3 &#8212; recording software Musician&#8217;s Friend has Cubase SL3 for $300. The main reason I like it over Sonar is that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}