You can also get away with slower hardware, right now I'm running my whole studio off my pIII 833 laptop machine with the quattro interface via usb. I don't do much with jack and softsynths (except composing in csound), mostly what I'm doing is using linux to develop samples, then I load then into my asrx pro and use rosegarden4 to sequence and sweep to record and edit. On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Steve Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:35:46 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > > You can get monitors that accept SPDIF, but your choice will be limited. > > > If you get decent active monitors that take balanced analogue you wont > > > have any noise problems. > > > > Sorry for being a complete newbie, but "active" monitors? What > > does "active" mean in this context? > > Active means that the amplifiers are in the monitor chasis, so you run a > line level balanced signal to a socket on the back and from then on the > signal paths are all short. > > - Steve >
