[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Chris Belle]

Now that's really interesting.

Have to go get my head around that I've never used that part of reaper yet.


On 12/1/2014 2:01 PM, Derek Lane wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has ever gotten any good results with cobbling a 
> bunch of junk machines together with reastream, and using each one 
> like a card in an old protools rig?
> I just finished amusing myself by running a bunch of waves plugins in 
> realtime on my netbooks audio, with practically no more delay than the 
> internal latency of said netbook.
> Granted, my daw was doing the processing, I was just using 2 
> reastreams as a send/return for the remote processing.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 5:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Looking for external sound card
>
>
>> 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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