[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Patrick Perdue]

With reaper, one. Unlike sonar, you can't use multiple WDM class compliant devices. You could go the route of Asio for all,  lashing it altogether as one virtual driver, hoping it all works. Something like this is a lot easier and more elegant on Mac, because this kind of thing is supported at operating system level.

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> On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Now something else I thought about today, to get multiple ins and outs in a practical recording set-up how many class compliant devices could you hook up at once and run in wdm mode and get reasonable results?
> 
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>> 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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