Still No MIDI Keyboard
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Hastings, Canada
Posts: 175
For something as heavy as EWQL (piano patch alone being 1.5 GB), I need all the RAM I can get, and all the CPU power I can get. It's less about excess and more about what most other people who write music using DAWs use, and even two years ago I was seeing overclocked i7-3770ks, which were more expensive at the time than the FX 9370 is now.
The GPU is primarily for gaming--this is going to be a multipurpose machine, hence the rather roomy HDD.
Don't worry about paying for all of it, I would never expect anyone to do that. I would actually feel bad if someone did. We should be doing taxes in a few weeks so I'll probably get a bit of money from a tax return, but yes, $2000 is a lot of money. It looks pricey because I have everything listed at regular price--probably not going to be able to take full advantage of sales.
With regard to the music itself: I thought ahead and backed up all my current projects on to my 4TB external, including WAVs, so there's no need to be concerned about those. Only issue is I'll have to redownload Symphonic Orchestra. Yay, 35GB download...
Thanks for the help with Windows 7 though. Knew I could find that for cheaper, just didn't know where. Since PriceTag's is a download version, no need to worry about shipping.