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What is the best internal soundcard to use with live?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:02 am
by madeintrance
Can anybody help please?
Or is it the best solution to use an external?
Many thanks
James
Re: What is the best internal soundcard to use with live?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:11 am
by Da hand
I am assuming you are asking this regarding a desktop and not a laptop, right?
Re: What is the best internal soundcard to use with live?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:53 am
by Tone Deft
internal is probably better. I use external and get very low latency with an Edirol UA101 I bought over 5 years ago for ~$300 IIRC. with external the CPU talks to the USB/firewire port via the PCI bus. with internal the card sits right on the PCI bus so there's one less step of messaging.
I might say the computer's specs matter more, internal vs external is a moot point. that extra step of talking over USB is going to be less than a sample time anyway.
RME are considered Quality sound cards.
what are your computer specs? if it's a good machine it doesn't matter much. shop for the number of inputs and outputs and quality of the mic/instrument pre-amp.
Re: What is the best internal soundcard to use with live?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:40 am
by mrobare
http://www.echoaudio.com/
has some pci cards
i have Echo MiaMIDI
2 in and 2 out + midi i/o
i have not had any problems with it
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