I am posting this particular blog for the benefit of the people behind me. The story began about a year and a half ago.
I wanted to begin creating beats so I bought M-Audio's Trigger Finger. I discovered that it is a trigger for MIDI only, it doesn't come with its own sounds. Without digital drums it is an expensive paper weight. So I bought Native Instruments Battery 3 digital drums and discovered that it would NOT install properly nor run at all. I logged online and learned that hundreds of other people also had the same problem. All of us were out our $250.00. Within two weeks Battery 3, which had been a brand new program, was selling for $100.00. Don't buy it as it is full of bugs and NI is very corrupt and evil for continuing to sell a dead dog that won't run. So I turned my eyes and ears to Ableton Live 7.0. I had previously discovered that my emachine would NOT cut it for digital recording as it does not come with ASIO drivers on its sound card. What I needed was a completely new computer solely for recording and performing music. So starting with a creative labs sound card with ASIO drivers (reduces latency) I am going to build an entirely new computer for music only. It is going to run on Windows XP because the word going around is that VISTA doesn't work so well in music with ASIO drivers, Ableton, and such. Who knows what's going to happen when XP disappears off the market! Get XP now. I am ordering small parts now through www.tigerdirect.com and will continue to order parts and a bare bones unit that my brother, Mike, is going to assemble for me. Looks like summer is when I'll finally have all the pieces of my musical recording career in place.
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