me1999now
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So, I’m almost done setting up my little start-up home studio and am on track to meeting my December deadline so I can make 2010 the year for me to really get the ball rolling with this new hobby. The last two things I need to get started are some more RAM for my PC, a pair of monitors (I decided on the Yamaha HS50’s) and an audio interface (going with the Presonus Firebox), which I’m picking up this weekend.
The question I have is this. I’ve been working on ideas for beats and have the foundation laid down for a few songs that I really want to try to develop. Since I did these tracks on my computer’s stock soundcard, do I have to redo them from scratch to get the sound quality attributed to using a separate soundcard like the Firebox? Or, will I be fine as long as I use the Firebox to export my tracks into WAV format? It would suck to have to go back and compose everything all over again; but then again, that’s why I decided to wait until I had all the necessary equipment before I decided to really spend time working on beats and mainly focused on reading, deciding on which programs I wanted to use, and learning them before I really went in.
If it makes any difference, all of my music is MIDI and I have not recorded any audio. I would guess that the change in sound quality will only come into play when I export the track and tell my DAW what quality to export it in and which soundcard to reference. But again, I’m just a confused newbie and could be understanding this all wrong.
Can anyone help clarify?
The question I have is this. I’ve been working on ideas for beats and have the foundation laid down for a few songs that I really want to try to develop. Since I did these tracks on my computer’s stock soundcard, do I have to redo them from scratch to get the sound quality attributed to using a separate soundcard like the Firebox? Or, will I be fine as long as I use the Firebox to export my tracks into WAV format? It would suck to have to go back and compose everything all over again; but then again, that’s why I decided to wait until I had all the necessary equipment before I decided to really spend time working on beats and mainly focused on reading, deciding on which programs I wanted to use, and learning them before I really went in.
If it makes any difference, all of my music is MIDI and I have not recorded any audio. I would guess that the change in sound quality will only come into play when I export the track and tell my DAW what quality to export it in and which soundcard to reference. But again, I’m just a confused newbie and could be understanding this all wrong.
Can anyone help clarify?