S/PDIF / IR / CNR looking for suggestions on cool use, help...

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I'm putting together another M825G v 9.2a micro-ATX K7 system for the
daughter who is interested in learning music, producing sound tracks,
and might use it to entertain a bright 4 yr. old or edit her home
videos. This computer will also be used in a small home network. Some
wireless connectivity would be interesting (wireless MIDI?).

I noticed the mob has a Sony Philipps output 4 pin header in sort of an
awkward place between a PCI (not pci-e) slot and the back of the mob as
well as a 6 pin Infrared port located next to the IDE ports and wonder
what might be done with them? I was planning on adding an ieee1394
adapter there but that could interfere with the S/PD and it already has
USB2.

I plan on putting on one or the other of a couple of older Music
synthesizer programs I have on the shelf, would the AC97 audio codec be
too limiting? I suppose the SPDIF carries the audio from the ac97 but
does it have other uses?. Would it be moot if I added a soundcard?
What is the CNR riser good for?

I want to multi-boot the system on Millenium Editon and Windows 2000.
Maybe even a Linux. I'm not a fan of XP.

Any homebuilt audio/vide enthusiasts looking in here that can give me
some ideas?

Thanks
 
Bob said:
I plan on putting on one or the other of a couple of older Music
synthesizer programs I have on the shelf, would the AC97 audio codec be
too limiting? I suppose the SPDIF carries the audio from the ac97 but
does it have other uses?. Would it be moot if I added a soundcard?
What is the CNR riser good for?
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You will need a decent sound card. A software synth like Cubase or Reason
needs decent low latency ASIO drivers for it to be useful. The AC97 is a a
poor choice for music composition work so forget about using it. Get
yourself an Audigy 2 card which includes a fairly good (but not excellent)
ASIO driver. There is nothing more annoying than a lagged synth keyboard.
The Audigy includes a MIDI connector, and you don't get the horrible
artifacts that you will with a 16 bit DSP.
I want to multi-boot the system on Millenium Editon and Windows 2000.
Maybe even a Linux. I'm not a fan of XP.
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Each to his own.
 
Bob said:
I'm putting together another M825G v 9.2a micro-ATX K7 system for the
daughter who is interested in learning music, producing sound tracks,
and might use it to entertain a bright 4 yr. old or edit her home
videos. This computer will also be used in a small home network. Some
wireless connectivity would be interesting (wireless MIDI?).

I noticed the mob has a Sony Philipps output 4 pin header in sort of an
awkward place between a PCI (not pci-e) slot and the back of the mob as
well as a 6 pin Infrared port located next to the IDE ports and wonder
what might be done with them? I was planning on adding an ieee1394
adapter there but that could interfere with the S/PD and it already has
USB2.

I plan on putting on one or the other of a couple of older Music
synthesizer programs I have on the shelf, would the AC97 audio codec be
too limiting? I suppose the SPDIF carries the audio from the ac97 but
does it have other uses?. Would it be moot if I added a soundcard?
What is the CNR riser good for?
Click to expand...

The CNR riser is good for.......installing a little modem card. You almost
certainly don't wanna do that...

Martin
 
Thanks ShozWoz and QuantumCat.
That is good to know. An Audigy sound card and forget the CNR riser.

Had the computer up today for a little build testing. So far so good.
The cpu is an AMD Sempron™ 2600+.
The memory is a 1 GB DDR stick of Kingston 2700 / 333 MHZ.
Is that a good cpu - memory combination?

The BIOS has some interesting options:
Graphic Win Size 64MB (128MB 256MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB)
SDRAM Timing by SPD Enabled (Disabled)
SDRAM CAS# Latency 2.5 (3.0 1.5 2)
SDRAM Bank Interleave Disabled (4-Way 2-Way )

Any suggestions as to which are significant for audio / video editing?
Does N-Way (4-Way, 2-Way) SDRAM bank interleave depend on me having N
(4 or 2) sticks of RAM?
Thanks again

Bob
 
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