Updated 25 September 2026
I plug the USB cable of my DM48 into my upgraded desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor, 32 GB RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU running under Windows 11 Professional for practicing playing, recording MIDI tracks, and editing.
My updated Digital Audio Workshop (DAW) is Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio. My desktop computer has sufficient grunt, so I don’t need to use my Steinberg UR22 Audio Interface to reduce latency, but I do so anyway. Instead of my Steinberg I could use the Freeware loopBE Internal MIDI software device to reduce latency. Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio is a very user friendly DAW packed with many sophisticated features and it has a large range of virtual instruments.
I have purchased and now mainly play a range of SWAM instruments which provide full control over expression within Mixcraft 8 using a foot pedal. The foot pedal I use is a Behringer FCB1010 which has 10 foot buttons and 2 foot pedals. This MIDI foot controller is very robust and versatile, but is an absolute pain to programme using the foot buttons and a digital display which is limited to only three digits. I therefore use the Windows based FCB1010 MIDI Editor version 2.99.7 developed by Ed Dixon. I connect my foot pedal to my Steinberg UR22 Audio Interface.
For sound amplification I use a Beta Aivin BM6 mains and battery powered guitar amplifier/speaker.