[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Chris Belle]

Not one with a usb3 port yet.

That's good to know.


On 12/1/2014 3:45 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> 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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