[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Patrick Perdue]

Have you played with modern laptops with USB 3 ports? That's not so much 
a problem anymore.


On 12/1/2014 3:02 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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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