COMPUTER AUDIO

It came as no surprise to me that it takes a rather powerful computer to actually execute all of the three-dimensional audio rendering and multichannel assignments in real-time for my rather complex musical compositions. The desktop computer I have designed and recently built to use in my explorations of three dimensional audio/music is configured as follows: AMD FX8350 8-core 4 GHz CPU ASRock 990FX Extreme3 Motherboard 16 GB RAM Two (2) - Soundblaster SB0400 PCI soundcards H100iGTX Liquid CPU cooler Total of 4 TB of HD space Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OS Nvidia GeForce GT730 video card Steinberg Cubase Pro 8 Sound Forge Pro In addition to the above components, my system also includes: M-Audio Axiom Pro 61 USB MIDI keyboard controller Yamaha 12-channel USB stereo mixer For live performance I use: Eight 400-watt Peavey SR12 two-way speakers (12 inch speaker and high compression horn) placed in each of the corners of a sound cube powered by four Pyle 40-watts per channel stereo amplifiers. Four 400-watt Pyle Pro subwoofers with 15 inch speakers powered by two Peavey 450-watts per channel stereo amplifiers. This power is the source of “Bass you can feel in your bones”. In the studio I replace the eight corner speakers with four 300-watt Pyle and four 200-watt KLH small monitor speakers and use the same amplifiers but only use two of the subwoofer cabinets.