Hemmel

Taf, again, thank you for your suggestions. I will look into the last build in detail. Thanks to all who replied, the discussion was interesting and all input was much appreciated.

Further thoughts came up and I realized that I need to double-check if the hardware will have drivers for Ubuntu (or at least Debian-based OS). For example if there's software for case fans management or CPU overclocking, will it be available for Ubuntu as well...

With a name like "be quiet", I'd hope it's quiet enough. I'm thinking of having a padded wardrobe-sized booth for when recording voice through mics. So the PC noise wouldn't be recorded there... but when recording amp'd guitars... I'll have to see. I'm not sure what you mean by "OC-able parts"

This looks very good. What needs work exactly? I'd like to know you thought process

True, but during the installation process you can select what you want to install. I'll probably skip all the 3D graphics software and install only the Audio software. Even then, there will probably be some software that I wont use, and will not install them. Maybe I will, if they don't use up too much space. I'm not partial to either Intel or AMD, so anyone will do. If Intel is better suited, so be it. Thanks Taf. After reading this quickly, I noticed they talk about sample-based instruments. I will use some, but not that much. So 16Gb RAM should suffice.

Wow. I never expected to have over 20 replies in under an hour!!! Thanks to all that replied. I'm fairly novice in all that is music recording on PCs, and the previous PC I had was barely used as I got lost in ProTools. I'll try to answer your replies in order: No size limitations (if you're speaking physical size of tower). Could be full-atx or whatever, and like I said I could even manage a rackmount case because it will eventually go in its own room all set up for the studio. 1) both, since I have guitars with DIs, mics, but also a Roland V-Drum that I plug in through MIDI and Addictive Drums 2) I don't know 3) The main problem with the previous build was that it wasn't specific for music recording and production, it was a basic custom PC made from salvaged parts. Also as I said, ProTools has a huge learning curve that I never went through. 4) Good! If the price is lower then that, that's great. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that closely. However, PCPartPicker warns that there would be a BIOS upgrade necessary and that another CPU should be used for that BIOS upgrade (or something ...) I already have a PCI FireWire card, do I need a PCIe ??? I'll have a thorough examination of this website : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation#Hardware How so? This is getting to be a big post, I'll cut here and reply to the rest in other posts.

Hi everyone, I decided to join here after watching a lot of Linus' videos and I think they're great! I read quite a few threads and saw that there's a good community going on here. I had a request for advice on a PC build that would be installed in my living room, here's the most info I can give about what I want : Location: Quebec, Canada Budget: around 1,500$ CDN (flexible) Aim: Music Production. I want to use Ubuntu Studio to record my instruments through my current audio card, a M-Audio ProFire 2626 (also would be ready to upgrade this). I already have a FireWire PCI card unless there are FireWire ports in the suggested PC build (I doubt it, but who knows). Aim #2: Recording video of me recording music. This is secondary and could be done on another PC if it is detrimental to the audio recordings. I own a Logitech C615 webcam. I would set this up in my living room and connect the PC to either a 55" Samsung TV or an older 32" Samsung TV (all through HDMI connections) depending on space I already have a keyboard and mouse. Would need a basic DVD writer and an ok-but-not-for-gaming graphics card. I have an old PC that doesn't start anymore. That was my old music production rig, that ran Windows 7 with ProTools 8 M-Powered (old!). I would like a sturdy build, as quiet as can be, with high storage capabilities, perhaps around 4TB. As this would go in a living room, I don't want a rackmount but eventually I will have a home studio setup in its own room and if rackmounts aren't too pricey I could get one so I'll already have it for when the studio room is done. Any other questions will be gladly answered quickly. Thanks! Hemmel