There is music and there is music. Of course, this music has to be recorded somewhere and processed by someone before you buy the CD. Now, as today's audio is getting more and more complex, with highly-advanced processing and most subtle sound effects, it would take months to have your album ready with yesterday's PCs.

This is why a company like the UK-based Rain Recoding has decided to offer you what's best in DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) field. Their new masterpiece, entirely dedicated to audio production and even more: the Nimbus Pro is one of the quietest PCs you've ever listened to - it sports passive video card cooling and a very hi-tech array of acoustical lining and hard-drive anti-vibration casing so your head won't buzz and spin during the long studio hours.

The Nimbus comes in two flavors, Q1 and Q2, each coming with a different version of Vista: while the Q1 comes with the 32-bit Vista, the Q2 takes things a bit further and comes with the 64-bit version of Vista. Both units sport the same "fearsome" technology inside them and come ready-to-play right from the box.

The Nimbus Pro from Rain Recording is the latest release announced by the English squad and it sports quite a powerhouse of processing capabilities. They come with an awesome quantity of RAM: 8GB, ready to handle your most complex tasks and 1TB of storage on the RAID-0 HDDs.

The connectivity is simply impressive and you can add and add and then add again to your DAW using the complex array of PCI and PCIe slots, multimedia card readers and FireWire connectors. The audio section will most likely be based on the same SigmaTel STAC9227 audio codec as before.

The announced prices are $3.700 for the Nimbus Pro Q1 and $5,650 for the Q2.