>On the PC side all you need is a PC or laptop (I'm using a Dell laptop) with a decent Audio Card, and then some software. SONAR or Home Studio from cakewalk.com should work just fine.
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I have Dell notebook (Latitude 840C) but I am not sure what kind of a sound card it has.
>Then get a mixer, something like a Mackie multi channel mixer and some Sure microphones. Plug the mics into the mixer, send the mixer to the sound card (what I have is a cable with RCA on one end and a 1/8" headphone plug on the other so I use the Tape Outputs on the mixer and just plug it into the line in on the Audio Card) and hit record.
Do I understand correctly that the the headphone on the computer is what you use to plug in a cable from a MIDI keyboard?
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