Hi all I am an intermediate musician that currently uses a non-windows DAW looking to continue making some multitrack music in my home studio. I’m looking to purchase the Cubase elements and would like to ask what Windows (sorry I’m not a Mac person) desktop workstation would be good. Sweetwater has a CS2002U audio workstation but it’s like $1700. It came recommended to me because of its resources and I/O’s. I would like to run 2 monitors. Would Dell have similar? I know it’s a broad question just trying to home in on a solution. TIA!
What kind of recording will you be doing? Rock bands? EDM? Soundtracks with a bunch of orchestral sample libraries? Makes a huge difference as to how much you’ll be stressing the computer. It was counterintuitive to me when I was starting out, but just recording audio is one of the least demanding. It’s the processing, especially synths and sample libraries, that really hammer the computer.