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IDE 420 mb hard disk (SCSI's better but IDE is fast enough & cheap)<br />

US$240 Western Digital, Conner or Quantum (best) can be had for this<br />

price.<br />

8 mb RAM US$320<br />

The monitor of choice is up to you !! whatever you want to spend<br />

So a basic DX33 system would cost you about US$900 + a monitor<br />

obviously. Sure it's not cheap but provides you a platform for<br />

sequencing, patch editing and digital audio, and being a PC can be<br />

up<strong>gr</strong>aded by you as your needs expand, much easier & cheaper than the<br />

MAC. You may see cheap off the shelf systems but usually only have<br />

smallish hard drives and 4 mb of RAM instead of 8.<br />

Quad will generate MTC, that's about all I can tell you, so you can at<br />

least sync an external sequencer. I don't know whether it can chase<br />

lock to tape or not ...??? Ring Turtle Beach and ask them. If you want<br />

full recording power there is SAW which is US$599 software only, but is<br />

phenomenal. Can chase lock, 4 STEREO track simultaneous, automated<br />

faders & mutes, and fast non destructive editing, edit lists, and<br />

automatic crossfade tools for 'razor' edits.<br />

Quad is now available mail order for .... US$350 card & software. If you<br />

want up<strong>gr</strong>ade later to SAW (when you're rich) the Tahiti card that<br />

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