£500 to £1000 budget then more money going forward once in a while. I have a decent digtial keyboard and I am spending more time on it and want to start to learning about music theory / production and singing whlst playing piano. I already created a thread asking about a suitable sound card but I think I need to take a step back and ask again because im thinking maybe we get a mac book here? with some nice adapter and the right software? Bit more about spec of my main PC Obsidian 650D with like a ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, the good news is I have got rid of the Xonar essence STX, I have options sliding in a firewire card or sound card. Im thinking about sliding my couch over to back face the window and bring the keyboard over to my right of main desk, or even create an L to my desk seating position. Im open to suggestions about a nice path going forward for hardware. budget of £500 / or £1000 what do you get first to start of a music studio and why? Music wise I like Alecia keys, hendrix, classical, im a bit daft like im learning Chopin Ballade No.1 - 20 minutes a day (im about 1min30seconds in since june learning it) but I have not even mastered one octive scales yet. Im happy to buy second hand on ebay if saving big bucks to help get some good addtions, ie: second hand mac? Id like a path to a decent studio set up vs getting every thing in one go and spending £10k, more like £250 there, £500 there, etc Edit: Also want to get rid of the SENNHEISERRS 180 wireless headphone and get set of headphones that go over my ears like the sennheisers but keep the sound in, i think thats called closed? like a leather set of closed over ear headphones? under £300?
Just adding to my own thread here, I can see basicly I dont even have any Audio equipment here per say, like even if I was to get a decent pair of headphones with high ohm i dont have an "AMP", advanced things like mixing so on is way off in the future, i need to get -Decent headphones -Amp -Rig my Keyboard either via midi or usb to a PC with the sounds on it or capture the output of the keyboard which has decent sounds to it.. -Be able to deal with multpul audio sources like mic and keyboard into a PC and play that back into my headsphones to monitor and also record that with out issues that you normally with windows drivers?
rainbowbridge - I've got a small studio set up at home (and have worked in a fair few studios over the years) so would be happy to offer some advice. When I've got a spare ten minutes, I'll either drop you a post here or a PM. I'd be looking at a MacBook Pro and Logic, plus a half decent interface and some monitor speakers as an absolute minimum though.
