The worst thing about Christmas has to be listening to Top Of The Pops and the Christmas Number 1 Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Westlife and Mr Blobby for goodness sake! Surely anyone can produce a better Christmas Hit than those. After all, a computer does all the work, doesn’t it – all you do is press a few buttons and jiggle a few drum and bass lines around.
So what do you need? You need a PC with a reasonable amount of processing power under the hood – a Pentium III at least, preferably a P4 – in order to run the music software.
Audio files are quite large – forget MP3s, we’re talking the real thing here – and for each track of audio you record you’ll need around 10.6Mb of hard disk space per minute. Every track won’t be filled with audio so you won’t need quite that much in a multi-track recording but for a four-minute 16-track song it would be wise to allocate around 500Mb of hard disk space.
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You need a soundcard. All modern PCs have one of these but if you don’t want your song to sound like it was recorded in a back bedroom – even it if was – get a...
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