First of all, many thanks for the smart and wise comments - what a helpful community here !

Ok, I'll take the i7 route then and a Win7 64 bit. I expect a giant leap in the performances, since I have an Amd Athlon 64, 3200+ with one (yes one) GB of Ram made of two DDR each one 500 Mb. And yes, I hear you laughing..

I've purchased Biab and RB, and I like the power they have. A friend of mine is using the "MAGIX Samplitude Music Studio" (ca. 89 Euros), and the songs he produces with it sound quite good to my ears. I like also the overall layout of the program.

If someone of you uses it, I would like an opinion about.

But I'll follow too the above suggestion - that is, learn RB. It fits anyway better with the low budget :-)

The keyboard I use is a Roland Fantom G8. It has an internal audio card. I didn't connect it to my system yet (I'm using Linux at the moment, since the XP is died before that the keyboard come) but I guess - and hope - that there will be no latency issue with midi or audio recording and playback. Again, if someone had direct experience with it, it would be glad to read some opinion/review about the use of the Fantom internal sound card.

So, it's time to spare money.. an i7 is not really cheap at the moment, but I can't really wait until the i8 or i9 come, in order to get it cheaper :-/

Cheers,
Sergio


Last edited by semar; 10/04/14 11:29 AM.
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