RE: M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB Audio Interface
2009/05/16 08:44:15
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Hi supersleuth - if you've been on my website, then you already know that I recommend the fast track pro. I've never had one, but I've helped people with them on the forums and they seem to be rock solid devices.
as far as using the mixer to run everything thru - I'd reconsider that approach. I have a mixer myself that I use, but I don't use it for mixing the project before going into cakewalk. if you mix down the tracks in the mixer and output stereo to the soundcard then you've mixed outside the box instead of inside. mixing in SHS gives you much more flexibility. what if you want the guitar to come up at 1:44 in the song? what if you want to add reverb only to the vocals? you can't do that if you don't have separate tracks in SHS because they're already mixed into a stereo wavefile. that kind of defeats the purpose of having a sequencer like SHS.
re: 2G on your laptop - that should be OK, but what version of windows are you running? if vista 32, 2G will work, but that's the lowest I'd try to record with using vista.