VictorasaurusRe
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Hey everybody and thanks for taking the time to read - and possibly respond to - my post.
A long time ago (as in, years), I somehow got my hands on three Roland DS-8 Studio Monitors. Now, I do not have a clue about audio, but in any case, these are some damn good 2-way amped monitors. I do not really produce music, only Youtube commentaries. Two have been in our storage for years, my dad using the third.
These two speakers then got transfered to me when I moved out, as I was moving to a city, meaning I would have neighbors and a small home, so I wouldn't be able to take a grand piano with me. I got a synthesizer/keyboard (Kurzweil PC1x, if anybody cares), and took the two studio monitors with me as speakers for the keyboard. I never really figured out how good they really were and how to configure them at all. Now, as I don't play piano as much anymore, I have decided to move one - for now - to my PC for music etc, but I am thinking about moving them both here. I would like to have your lovely people's advice on how I should treat these, and how I should hook them up to my pc. I will get a dedicated audio card if that would matter, but as far as I'm concerned my motherboard has a pretty decent audio section. Should I use the audio ports at all? Or should I hook it up to a USB mixer...?
I am a complete and utter noob in audio. Feel free to try and explain the basics of it to me if you want to, but I doubt if I'll understand any of it. I absolutely love the sound I'm getting from this one monitor though, and I saw that they're no longer being produced, and that they're pretty expensive and pretty good. That's where my knowledge ends.
Don't ask how I got them and never used them as that is a very complicated story - please.
Cheers!
https://www.zikinf.com/_gfx/matos/dyn/large/roland-ds-8.jpg (Right now I use the analog input with a 1/4" jack, not a clue what else I can possibly do, but I can't really use two like that, right...?)
http://www.rolandus.com/products/ds-8/
Also, should I put it on 24bit/192khz in my windows settings? Or just 16/44.1 or 16/48?
A long time ago (as in, years), I somehow got my hands on three Roland DS-8 Studio Monitors. Now, I do not have a clue about audio, but in any case, these are some damn good 2-way amped monitors. I do not really produce music, only Youtube commentaries. Two have been in our storage for years, my dad using the third.
These two speakers then got transfered to me when I moved out, as I was moving to a city, meaning I would have neighbors and a small home, so I wouldn't be able to take a grand piano with me. I got a synthesizer/keyboard (Kurzweil PC1x, if anybody cares), and took the two studio monitors with me as speakers for the keyboard. I never really figured out how good they really were and how to configure them at all. Now, as I don't play piano as much anymore, I have decided to move one - for now - to my PC for music etc, but I am thinking about moving them both here. I would like to have your lovely people's advice on how I should treat these, and how I should hook them up to my pc. I will get a dedicated audio card if that would matter, but as far as I'm concerned my motherboard has a pretty decent audio section. Should I use the audio ports at all? Or should I hook it up to a USB mixer...?
I am a complete and utter noob in audio. Feel free to try and explain the basics of it to me if you want to, but I doubt if I'll understand any of it. I absolutely love the sound I'm getting from this one monitor though, and I saw that they're no longer being produced, and that they're pretty expensive and pretty good. That's where my knowledge ends.
Don't ask how I got them and never used them as that is a very complicated story - please.
Cheers!
https://www.zikinf.com/_gfx/matos/dyn/large/roland-ds-8.jpg (Right now I use the analog input with a 1/4" jack, not a clue what else I can possibly do, but I can't really use two like that, right...?)
http://www.rolandus.com/products/ds-8/
Also, should I put it on 24bit/192khz in my windows settings? Or just 16/44.1 or 16/48?
