PC DAW Questions

foRUMS 4 punkdISCO forums at punkdisco.co.uk
Mon Dec 15 21:54:50 CET 2014


Thanks all – very interesting..

 

I don’t bloat my PCs, even my main internet PC is pretty thin when it comes to what is installed.

 

I just looked to see what my internet PC is and:

 

i7 @ 3.4Ghz with 8Gb RAM.

 

I might build this PC up into a DAW (add more RAM).  At least this way my DAW is up and running for the month that it will take me to get everything working..

 

Btw, you all mentioned SSD drives.  What do you put on these?  Audio or operating system? Or, something else?

 

ta

 

Paul

London

www.punkdisco.co.uk

 

From: Peter Korsten [mailto:peter at severity-one.com] 
Sent: 15 December 2014 20:48
To: Music-bar
Subject: Re: PC DAW Questions

 

foRUMS 4 punkdISCO schreef op 15-12-2014 20:11:

Is there still value in having a separate DAW PC?


To answer that, first you need to answer why you would want/need it separate. To me, this comes from the time that device drivers weren't written very well, and the operating system let you get away with it. With Windows NT and its successors (2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8) it's become increasingly better protected.

What you could consider is to have a dedicated drive purely for audio, so it doesn't get filled up with your anime collection and such.

The trick is not to mess up your computer, but that's not limited to audio. So you have to ask yourself, do I really need all these games, graphics applications, utilities, and so on?




What about a single very powerful PC with dual booting (working PC / DAW PC)?


Same difference as the previous. Whether you have two PCs with two installations, or one PC with two installations, it's two installations.

Personally, I can't be bothered with the hassle of having to reboot my machine. If anything, I start up a virtual machine if I want to play with something. But I wouldn't recommend running an audio package in a VM.




Is there still value in going for a specialist DAW builder?  In the past I have always done this and accepted the extra 20% it probably has cost me.  But, my current very powerful Dell internet PC is completely silent so again, Im wondering if this theory is also dead..?


There's value in it if you don't know an awful lot of computers, or if your time is too valuable to spend ages tinkering. I always build my own PCs, although "evolve" would be a more accurate description. Every so often, I replace a part with something better.

- Peter

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