[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Chris Belle]

Another thing.

Laptops don't generally provide enough power for usb interfaces that 
like them.

Sometimes you can use a powered hub,
and get around that, but in general,
audio interfaces that don't have their own power will suck the max from 
your machine that they can.

I'm talking electrical power,
not data here,


On 11/30/2014 6:34 PM, Ken Downey wrote:
> I have seen the general dislike of Soundblaster cards on this list, 
> and I'm wondering what you all recommend. I'm running Windows XP on an 
> old netbook computer, and latency is certainly the biggest problem, 
> which is why I figure whatever sound card I get must have its own Asio 
> system built-in.
> My keyboard outputs to a quarter-inch jack, but I've got it converted 
> to 8th-inch and run it into my current card's line-in. The keyboard 
> has a line-in jack of its own into which I plug my Olympus dm901 
> recorder, using it as a stereo microphone. I used to have a headphone 
> splitter that was good for letting in signals from the iPhone and 
> recorder simultaneously, but those seem hard to find, so obviously the 
> more inputs on the card the better, but i could certainly make due 
> with the standard one mic and one line-in. Buffering is the main 
> point, and it's physically impossible to get more than two gigs of ram 
> on this computer, which is why I need the card to be as capable of as 
> much of that kind of thing as possible. What are your thoughts?
>
>
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