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Cigar Sherlock
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So I have my workstation (Yamaha Motif XS8) and purchased my monitor speakers today (yamaha HS-80m) so what's the next purchase I need to make. Your equipment opinions wanted! I do not have a FireWire set up yet and am clueless to setting the motif up to cubase on my laptop.
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Cubase is fairly simple so I'd go with something like a Presonus Firebox.
You want the highest bit rate and sample rate you can record in. To capture the most accurate audio possible.
For instance if you burned your music to CD (most CDs are 16bit 44.1khz) you'd want to convert your recording down but if you recorded at a lower bit/sample rate there is no way to add that missing information.
And beware, increasing your sample depth and bit rate give you better quality, but they drastically increase the amount of processing power required to record continually, and the amount of space the recorded files will take up on your hard drive. Unless you're in the big leagues, or planning on cutting to an analog like tape or lacquer, anything over 98kHz and 24-bit is simply overkill. The differences in quality just will not outweigh the strain on your comp.
As far as interfaces go, I've always had my best experiences, at least in the lower price range end of the spectrum, with MOTU gear. They have some great pieces available for what you'd need. not to mention their mic pre-amps are absolutely killer for the price range. Some are a little low on the gain side, so ribbon mic's might be a bit of trouble if used, but they are clean and clear and give great results.
Also to add to the warning stay away from Behringer products.
What exactly are you going to be using this studio for?