Best Midi Controllers and PCI-e card?

[CR78]

I own an RME HDSPe AIO and love it.

It's so damn stable and I can run the buffer at 64 samples with ridiculously miniscule latency.
Granted, I have a tower with an Intel i7 920 chip with 12GBs of DDR3 Ram which makes a Sh*tload of difference.

[bubbleboys]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll go with RME then.
Gonna go do some more research between the models.

I own an RME HDSPe AIO and love it.

It's so damn stable and I can run the buffer at 64 samples with ridiculously miniscule latency.
Granted, I have a tower with an Intel i7 920 chip with 12GBs of DDR3 Ram which makes a Sh*tload of difference.

Yeah I have pretty much the same specs, i7, 12 gb ddr3, sli gtx460se (not that graphics cards have any bearing on ableton), etc.
My computer is a beast

[CR78]

I also love that the HDSPe AIO has ADAT in/out; I have a fOCUSRITE ISA 428 Preamp and Behringer REV2496 which both have ADAT in/out; I clock with the ISA428 and have super low noise outboard FX with the REV2496.

Very happy with the setup.

I'm not sure where you are located but SFB Electronics http://www.sfb.net/ has great prices on RME . Rene Peper is a great guy there and will take care of you.

[XSIMan]

The X-Fi titanium can be switched to Audio creation mode which sounds better the extra features are for games and making mp3 sound better. If you dont game though get something with strong ASIO performance and the best sound output.