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[krankenstein]

If you need to run multiple audio apps at the same time, if you want 1ms latency, if you want to record 10 incoming tracks with no dropouts, if your income depends on any of these things, ASIO4ALL and a cheap ass sound card is not the solution. Several people have mentioned buying a Soundblaster Audigy, don’t do it unless you want to listen to MP3s, watch movies, or play games. Soundblaster doesn’t make audio cards for serious music production. Go to Zzounds, Musicians Friend, or Same Day Music and buy a real sound devise. You will be 100 times better off with a $99.00 entry level Pro card ie. M-Audio or TerraTec. These devises are made for music production. I can run a rack full of Reason devices re-wired into Ableton Live running several VSTs with 2ms latency. I use a $200.00 TerraTec PCI sound card. Don’t pregnant dog at Michael because he can’t turn your junk into gold. Mike has written a marvelous driver that lets me use my cheap laptop as an audio scratch pad with one audio app (Reason 4),withlow latency, without having to carry around an external sound card. If you are thinking about buying a sound card that does not come with ASIO drivers, you’re looking at the wrong card. NO SOUNDBLASTERS!!
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[dsphead]

touche, old boy!

you wrote-

Soundblaster Audigy, don’t do it unless you want to listen to MP3s, watch movies, or play games. Soundblaster doesn’t make audio cards for serious music production.

i couldnt aggree more about the soundblaster factor. i own an audigy value (SB0570) , and 2 SB PCI-128's, theyre good cards, but the key words are "serious music production" which sadly creative dont allow us "poor people" to achieve.

i wish i had known this before purchase, i would have reconsidered. The Audigy value and SE are "entry level" cards, and even the Audigy 2's and 4's have their problems.
Im a serious home recorder and muso (im no pro) and there ok most of the time. but to get pro gear you must spend the bucks!!!

my advice is to only use the pc to record the audio (ie; desk/bus outputs) and do all processing thru real effect units, 0 latency. BUT BRING YOUR DOLLARS WITH YOU!!!!!!!!

On latency, something thats overlooked. there are some intersting reading about pc soundcard inability to respond correctly to a record request, causing a latency to happen, can be found on the net everywhere, google it (too many to list here).