[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Chris Belle]

Hey Jackie really, I thought those tri captures had midi.

yeh, I almost bought one, I like that loopback feature.

I've gotten this presonus
audio box use to behave more or less, but getting the drivers in is a 
huge pain, one thing about that interface, it acts a lot better if you 
give it adequate power.

It will sort of work on a standard usb port, with skype, or other non 
asio device, but sonar requires it to be on a hub.

And the control pannel is a pain to adjust latency and such doable,
but requires holding your mouth just right and advanced screen-reader 
skills with the virtual mouse.

There are inexpensive midi interfaces around for 30 dollars, for a 
single port one,
could pare with the tri capture if needed, that would be my recommend too.

I need another small i/o device around here either gonna get that or a 
lexicon alpha.

That loopback will be handy for recording stuff from the net or other 
sources without having to cable or drag out the mixer in out of the way 
places.

I've done the whole virtual audio cable deal, and it works ok, but 
hardware is so much better for tasks like this.


On 11/30/2014 8:12 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:
> Hay, Ken, you really don't tell us much, i.e., do you want midi on
> your card, what primarily do u use your setup for, etc.
>
> I have a Roland Tricapture, which I actually like a lot--1 thing I
> particularly like about it is u can actually use it to do loopback
> recordings from your computer, i.e., stereo mix. It's controlled by
> just knobs as opposed to an inaccessible control panel. But it doesn't
> have midi.
>
> I also have a presonus audiobox soundcard that does have midi. I find
> the drivers to be flakey, & I personally don't like it. Chris Bell has
> evidently had different experiences than I, so, as always, YMMV. But
> if I need midi, I've gotta use it, of course. Again, it's pretty much
> hardware controlled.
>
> You're not gonna be able to do much w/a netbook, I don't think. If you
> keep it from going on the internet & scan any storage devices before
> loading stuff onto it, u might be able to disable antivirus, etc., &
> get a little more mileage. Be sure to remember to scan any storage
> devices, though, or you might have a machine that'll be difficult or
> impossible to repair. U know all that already, I'm certain. My
> son-in-law kept his daw from goin' on the net, but put a thumb drive
> in it w/o scanning it, &, needless to say, things got interesting b4
> they got better, to put it tactfully.
>
> On 11/30/14, Ken Downey <KenWDowney at blindlabyrinth.com> 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?
>