As a lingering consequence of the destruction of my primary linux
box, I’ve obtained the parts for a new Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Naturally, I bought the parts from New Egg.
It’s a Althon XP (+Barton) 3000 (2.1Ghz) 1G RAM box with a
80 Gb (7200 rpm) IDE drive for the console OS (XP Pro) and a 37 Gb (10K rpm)
drive for audio files. Although the case is a humble mid-tower, the monitor
is a petite 15” flat screen so that I can stick the whole shebang in a wire
rack from Economy Hardware.
The audio
monitors
still at just above ear level (which I prefer to below ear level) and my
retro Ensoniq ESQ1
synth/MIDI controller juts out perpendicularly to the rack for
my pleasure. I’ve just finished installing the OS, the patches, the
patches to the patches, the updated drivers for the hardware, firefox, putty
and two more patches for the audio software,
Sonar 4.
I still need to add some additional
VST effects and Synths and then I’ll be
ready to migrate my existing audio projects from their former home to the
new beast.
With all the foul weather Boston has received of late (about 40 inches for January, a 113 year record!), there are plenty of reasons to have indoor hobbies.