[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Ken Downey]

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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