in my music studio i have Drums , keybord,bass and guitar amps,microphones, etc... regarding hardware, i find enough having a yamaha 8xlr mixer with some fx, a couple of compressors, a phones amplifyer, a parametric equalizer plus my MAudio Profire 2626 firewire soundcard. All connected to a multicor, 2 speackers for rehersals or i use my phones amplifyer. So, usually i only use a mixer for rehersals, since that when i record a band all playing at the same time, i prefer to use the phones amplifyer, all ear through phones of course. Gets easy to mix on Sonar then, i mean, i dont really use the mixer when i'm recording, since my sound card has got 8 xlr inputs. All band go straight to Sonar, i record and mix from there maybe with some reverb in real time, or not, depends of the musicians of course! Almost forgot my studio speackers for mixing and pre-mastering, important to have, right? regards, Rui Vilarinho ----- Original Message ----- From: Johan Piryns To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 3:14 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: how many gb on hd for sonar? And Rui, how many mixers you will use, a mixer is very great. soundcraft, pioneer, ecler, yamaha hihihihihi. Now serious: ok thanks for your information. Johan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Van: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Rui Vilarinho Verzonden: zaterdag 2 juni 2012 16:08 Aan: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Onderwerp: [ddots-l] Re: how many gb on hd for sonar? Hi, No worrys, It's mmore than enough. The oficial DancingDots recommendations for the Cake Walk Sonar Production edition is: Drive space. mimimal 200 mb for the software instalation, 50 gb is recommended for all of the features and soft synths. Of course, a couple of months later and you will find that at least 100 gb it's what you will need though! It all depends of how many extra Sonar plug'ins you will gonna get! best regards, Rui Vilarinho ----- Original Message ----- From: Johan Piryns To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 1:55 PM Subject: [ddots-l] how many gb on hd for sonar? Hi, Can someone tells me how much gigabytes Sonar is when you install the whole software including sounds etc? Py c-partition has now 217 gb free space on my laptop and 250 gb on my desktop c-drive. is that enough? regards Johan