JohnN

Take your source vocal: "Hello" Reverse it: "olleH" Add reverb and record it: "olleHhh h h h h" Reverse again: "h h h h hhHello". Jobs a good 'un. :-) BR JN

EDIT - post removed, talking crap! BR JN

XP does not support 4 gigs of RAM!!!!!!!!!! Don't make the mistake of buying 4 gigs and planning on using it. It did before SP2 (I think), but you will never get an updated version of XP to detect 4 gigs. Apparently a small number of people have gotten it to work, but if you google you will find loads of people that are pissed about it. I have 4 gigs, and XP will only detect 3 no matter what I do. From the link I gave above the OP should have seen that XP supports 4GB RAM, but splits it evenly between kernel and apps (?); ie 2G each. You can tweak it (registry?) to force 1G kernel, 3G apps. So, yes, the best you will "see" is 3G. Anyone know what the kernel actually means? I realise (assume) it's the kernel of the OS, and so I assume the means the OS has 1G to play with, now matter how little it uses. @Dean Roddey, Eeek, that's some crazy RAM requirements! :-) BR JN

Just checked and Win XP supports up to 4G RAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition With 64bit XP going to 128G. Google will give you plenty more hits. A 64 bit CPU can be used with a 32 bit OS (I have an AMD 64 with 32bit XP)). Or you could get 64 bit XP to get benefits, IFF the application supports it. (I think Sonar has 64bit operation) Not sure where you'd use 4G RAM. I guess some new big orchestral, multisampled plugins could benefit. Most I've ever used is about 670M with a couple of big soundfonts. As posted above, at the moment driver support for Vista ain't great. I've not heard anyone, espcially for audio work, recommend Vista over XP...yet. EDIT arrgh, post crash! BR JN

Also I was reading a recording for dummies book and it says that you should use two hard drives...one for system files and one for audio files. I was never aware of that....is that really necessary? Lets say I was running a Apple 2.0GHz Macbook with 1 gig of memory...would that pose real problems with slowness? I worked with editing video before and it seemed fine with 1 hard drive in a PC.Everyone agrees that 2 drives are best. They allow you to keep your OS and data separate. If (when!) the OS dies you can reinstall without losing your data. Two drives will also allow faster access to your data since the data drive and OS drive can run simultaneously. However, if you have enough RAM (1G plus) I would expect your application to be resident in memory and the only subsequent disk accesses to be for your data. So, yes, you can use a single drive. You just may have problems (audio hiccups) when you first start-up and/or you load some new part of your DAW. BR JN