Embarrassing question

[Macula]

I am a professional musician but an amateur audio engineer and I am just beginning to build a home studio.

My question: To record 2 audio channels at 24bit / 96KHz with few or no effects using Logic 8, will the following suffice?

- New macbook Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz
- 4GB of RAM
- 250 GB internal hard drive @ 5400RPM
- External scratch disk with FW400

I am particularly interested to know whether FW400 storage will be enough for this purpose, or whether I would need a computer supporting FW800.

Thank you warmly.

 

[zygo]

You'd probably want to get an external sound card.

FW400 is fine for audio.

Those system specs would breeze 2 channels of 24bit 96k audio with few/no fx.

 

[fernmeister]

Yes it will suffice. You will need to get a firewire audio interface. The only *potential* bottleneck will be hardrive speed - but that will depend on how big your mixes become and how many sample-players you end up using.

 

[zimv20]

you should use your external drive to record audio.

 

[motulist]

Macs from the year 1995 are capable of recording 2 tracks of 24/96 audio, so have no fear, your specs are enormously more than adequate.

 

[Macula]

Thank you. Yes, I forgot to mention that I will also be using an Apogee Duet interface with a couple of Oktava MK-012 condenser mics.