[RWP] Looking for external sound card

[Jackie McBride]

Hay, Ken, you really don't tell us much, i.e., do you want midi on
your card, what primarily do u use your setup for, etc.

I have a Roland Tricapture, which I actually like a lot--1 thing I
particularly like about it is u can actually use it to do loopback
recordings from your computer, i.e., stereo mix. It's controlled by
just knobs as opposed to an inaccessible control panel. But it doesn't
have midi.

I also have a presonus audiobox soundcard that does have midi. I find
the drivers to be flakey, & I personally don't like it. Chris Bell has
evidently had different experiences than I, so, as always, YMMV. But
if I need midi, I've gotta use it, of course. Again, it's pretty much
hardware controlled.

You're not gonna be able to do much w/a netbook, I don't think. If you
keep it from going on the internet & scan any storage devices before
loading stuff onto it, u might be able to disable antivirus, etc., &
get a little more mileage. Be sure to remember to scan any storage
devices, though, or you might have a machine that'll be difficult or
impossible to repair. U know all that already, I'm certain. My
son-in-law kept his daw from goin' on the net, but put a thumb drive
in it w/o scanning it, &, needless to say, things got interesting b4
they got better, to put it tactfully.

On 11/30/14, Ken Downey <KenWDowney at blindlabyrinth.com> 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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