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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>