Neil Ottenbreit

I found a local university student that will put a custom build together for me if I supply the components for $100. Yee Haw! 

Hi Guys,

I'm an old Sonar user from Sonar 2 and I'm still running Sonar 5 Producer Edition. I am currently running on an off the shelf HP computer so I know very little about purchasing/building a new DAW.

I plan on upgrading to the newest version of Cakewalk and I want a decent performing machine to match. Since this is the Cakewalk forum I figured it was the right place to ask.

I don't need the latest and greatest technology as I am trying to put this together on a reasonable budget. I'm perfectly fine with last years model as I don't anticipate being a power users and needing crazy track counts, etc.  I am not against buying an off the shelf computer from BestBuy, etc. If someone has a recommendation on a specific model I would be happy to look at that too.

I'm not against putting my own system together either, although I have never done that before. Not sure how difficult it would be.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Neil