My sound card makes the music skip when i layer the sounds or even just make a phat synth..i have a Yamaha DS-XG and it sounds like shit with different vst plugins and any kind of complex sequincing with fruty loops. Whats a good soundcard i should get??

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Originally posted by twisted420 My sound card makes the music skip when i layer the sounds or even just make a phat synth..i have a Yamaha DS-XG and it sounds like shit with different vst plugins and any kind of complex sequincing with fruty loops. Whats a good soundcard i should get??

emu 1212m. go to www.emu.com
do not be offended by creative label, this is as good as it can be for 150 euros.
you can also get emu0404 (100 usd, a bargain), m-audio audiophile (about 90 euros), esi waveterminal, etc.

can you get those in retail stores in canada or is it a european export only?

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Originally posted by twisted420 can you get those in retail stores in canada or is it a european export only?

emu is american, and now a trademark owned by creative, so you should be able to get them in canada easily. m-audio and esi are german, so i think you are better off going for emu. and i do not know can you get them in stores in canada, i live in croatia, no more than 18 000 kilometers away

iv had the emu1820m for nearly 2 months now
best soundcard iv ever used.

quality is amazing!!!

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am about to buy a Creative Audigy 2. i have a microkontrol korg. and i want to play music with my pc and my lot of softsynth.
is the creative audigy 2 a good option. o may be, i have to think for another?

thanks

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Some really great info here..

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=191661

JaY

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Originally posted by Jimbeam am about to buy a Creative Audigy 2. i have a microkontrol korg. and i want to play music with my pc and my lot of softsynth. is the creative audigy 2 a good option. o may be, i have to think for another? thanks

don't, the drivers cause problems in most sequencers. I just bought an Echo MIA MIDI. I dont know why everyone has those EMU cards, 192 just doesn't seem worth it.

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 don't, the drivers cause problems in most sequencers. I just bought an Echo MIA MIDI. I dont know why everyone has those EMU cards, 192 just doesn't seem worth it.

192 k is just one of the features. emu 0404 costs 100 usd, which is almost hilarious. emu1212m has, apart from 192 k which is not that important, the advantage of dsp effects, is not locked to 48 k like audigy is, and hi-quality audio converters used in protools (the most important part here), and all for 150 usd. you can even later buy a separate dock of your choice and add a powerful sampler with those famous emu z-plane filters which will not use your cpu at all.