KVR Audio

eee.ddd.y · Post by **eee.ddd.y** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:35 pm

Im looking for a good soundcard for my laptop.i have a vaio and i want a soundcard to sit into my PCI slot. i have no clue about brands or which are good or bad. could you please point me in right direction. also is there any sound card that can take pressure of CPU by doing some of its own processing??i heard there are such sound cards...

thanx hope to get a reply

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:52 pm

eee.ddd.y wrote:Im looking for a good soundcard for my laptop.i have a vaio and i want a soundcard to sit into my PCI slot.

Are you sure your laptop has a PCI slot?

My guess is it's pcmcia or CardBus instead...

There are only a couple of soundcards for PCMCIA. Here's an overview of a shop:
http://www.zzounds.com/cat--PCMCIA-Audi ... aces--2422

If you go for USB2 or FireWire there's a lot more choice! Fill in this wizard for example:
http://www.recordingreview.com/soundcar ... wizard.php

eee.ddd.y wrote:also is there any sound card that can take pressure of CPU by doing some of its own processing??i heard there are such sound cards...

Hmmm... Can only think of EMu cards, they often have effects onboard. How well that works I dunno. I think the basic effects are just that: basic, nothing special. And once you get another card in the future you probably can throw away any existing project you've made with it.

eee.ddd.y · Post by **eee.ddd.y** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:58 pm

ye sorry about that your right..well ive since heard that i should get a firewire or usb external audio interface..anyone know which one is adviseable??preferably under 300 euro

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:01 pm

With regards to the FX on the Emu cards, they can com in quite handy while multitracking, for the monitor feeds... I think the Emu 1616 is quite a killer card, i use the 1820 myself. The same breakoutbox can also be used with a PC, after an optional purchase of the PCI card only....

Cheers!
Sidhu

Midinovela · Post by **Midinovela** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:29 pm

I have the ECHO Indigo DJ (4 outs) and it works fine, no clicks or dropouts ever caused by the card and it works up to 24/96, if you like to record with your Laptop and not Djing there's the Echo Indigo IO (2 Ins, 2 Outs).
If you think of serious multichannel recording go Firewire.

stoolz · Post by **stoolz** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:57 pm

Depends what you want it for. Emu if you want plenty of connectivity, Echo if you dont ned the breakout box. Stear clear of any hardware pretentind to be pro hardware like the creative cards.

inf0tr8r · Post by **inf0tr8r** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:23 pm

creative is crapola...

I love my Echo Indigo DJ card... like barely any latency and it sounds very very good..

stoolz · Post by **stoolz** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:45 pm

and you mixing mp3 or making music, if so what controllers do you use to mix with if any?

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