yassinex

I've a Laptop,
and I wish to buy a sound card that deals with 24/96 io to setup my DAW.
I want to have an acceptable (good) recording quality / and play with my fav. Vsti's.

What do u suggest to me:

An Audigy NX2 ?
Or an Extigy ?

Or May I switch out of the Creative World.

Thax alot alot alot for any suggestion.


Yassine !

Nando Dominguez

Hi yassinex. None of the Soundblasters USB seems to have any Asio driver at the moment. Due to this you could NOT play vst instruments with it with a latency lower than, say 30ms, which is not fast enough for real time. I don't think Eugene Gavrilov is thinking to support them at the moment, although he's got the last word.
Also read this:
http://www.cubase.com/forum/display_...PagePosition=1

There are some other cards that could work fine for your requirements. See Edirol:
http://www.edirol.com/products/audio.html

or Ego systems:
http://www.esi-pro.com/listProduct.php?ctgr=9

and many more. (Why not searching for USB soundcards in Google?)

Also you might try a generic Asio driver: 'Asio4all', this should work with any device, including the built in sound card of your laptop.

http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

/Nando

PS. Don't forget the Firewire connector. There are some Firewire cards around there, some of them really sophisticated.

dj_stick

Eugene *has* written an ASIO driver for the Extigy at least… but i don;t think he has released it yet as beta… probably very buggy and un-user friendly

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