here's a pretty good cheap one that you can also hook monitor speakers up to with the Left and Right outputs in the back. if you JUST wanna record vocals, you can get a pretty cheap single-input interface on amazon for like $40. make sure you get one with the right amount of inputs u want.

the audio interface will allow you to record any instrument/mic that uses an instrument cable or an XLR cable. Get an audio interface and monitor speakers. The closest I came was using my USB interface to physically split the sound into a 2.0 set up of studio monitors, and a line out to headphones, but they didn't have independent audio controls.Įdit: Here's the USB interface if you want to try going down that line. When I say I tried to do this for a year, I mean I googled for a few days every couple months, and have essentially 5 different sound outputs (External USB audio interface, Soundcard, USB Microphone, Onboard Sound, Bluetooth DAC) and could not get output to two simultaneous channels of the same audio source with any combination of the 5. I ended up buying a soundblaster so that I can more easily switch between earphones and speakers by opening an app and flicking a toggle. You can set windows up to mirror one soundcard to another (virtual or physical) soundcard, but you end up with a half second of latency in one of the outputs. Let me explain about the soundcard thing a little bit more, getting an audio interface isn't important because the sound quality of the motherboard is bad or not enough, it is because the external audio interface has some chips/processors built inside that are specially made to give you the best performance when you're actually working with audio on the software you're using to create the songs (the DAW).Įdit: Also with an interface he will be able to connect high quality professional microphones, instrument lines (like electric guitars, bass, keyboards) give him 6.3 mm connections for professional audio equipment blablablaĪs someone that tried to do this for about a year you basically can't without annoying trade offs. Hell i'm a 21yr old not so amateur and would love to have a build like that one lol Besides all of this I don't see any problem in your build, for music production you want first CPU second RAM and third fast AND plenty of storage and you have all three of these bases covered for a 15yr old amateur here. The most popular are the Scarletts (the cheaper version is the Solo at 100$ qid=1532891645&sr=8-3&keywords=scarlett+interface&smid=A14WNZUZC1YICU) but even this bad boy ie=UTF8&qid=1532891764&sr=1-3&keywords=audio+interface will give you waaaaay better performance at the same price you have on that list.

Backing what u/rte圓1 said, don't get an internal soundcard he will need an external audio interface in order to make music.

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