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Sonar 8 PE is a really darn good choice IMO. Sure sounds like Cakewalk have nailed it with the latest revision of Sonar 8. Hear nothing but praise about it. It apparently has some very very good mastering plugins but might be a little
lean on uber quality bread and butter mix effects. I'm currently using Sonar 7se and pop over to the Cakewalk forums alll the time.
I would consider a sratchbuild with the Intel Core i7 for a processor. I've seen audio benchmark tests results and it blows just about everything clear out of the water as far as audio production goes. Better to have too much than too little. I would also look into a UAD dsp card (a dual or quad card), or possible an external dsp processor like Dunede, simply because you hear nothing but high praise for the quality of their plugins and the load taken off the cpu. You don't hear alot of hype over non dsp plugins these days. Maybe Waves stuff, but for the highway robbery prices of Waves plugins, I would rather go to dsp.
Some type of external hardware controller would be nice (if only Euphonix would release pc drivers for their controllers), and a half decent midi keyboard for the just in case you need to make it fake on occasion.
The RME 800 sure has some nice specs but I would definitely be asking myself 100 times if it has all the I/O needed including midi I/O.
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