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By Triple-X Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:30 am
nah, why pay anything for what you can have for free. that seller is just someone trying to sell what you can find for free.
unless some are so lazy that they dont wanna waste time searching..

tweakxp.com
and musicxp.com are both great sites for tweaking a pc for audio.
and sound on sound magazine has a great forum with tons of free articles on the topic.

Even after they find the tweaks, few people will wanna go as far as they must to perform all the best tweaks because they use their regular pc as a music pc.
A DAW is solely for digital audio and nothing else.. having an "everything else pc, AND a DAW is the best, but not the most convenient & cost effective for most.

On the other hand, I learned a long time ago to have both .. try loosing a few hundred songs and tons of audio files and samples to a virus and corrupt drive, and you'll do it too.

for anyone interested, try looking into what I mentioned above, and Im willing to bet you'll find everything you would if you bought that ebook on ebay, and probably even more that isn't included.
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By alaberge5148 Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:46 pm
+1

I used to use my computer for recording/internet/gaming/music/everything else you can think of and yes having a virus wipe out important audio and recording tracks is a pain for real, what i did recently was just search for good deals on a new mobo/cpu etc and used my old stuff for my daw, now i got a gaming computer which i use for internet and every day stuff, and a seperate one for just recording on. I dont even have that one connected to the internet just to be safe.

havent had any problems yet, plus the 3.2 ghz dual core and 2gb of ddr 2 ram work great for daw software and my quad core kills it for games so everybody wins. you would be surprised at how inexpensive you can build a computer if you only need it for recording and mixing purposes.