Which is a good soundcard for producing? .. and where can I get them?

I heard audiophile or gina was good? is there a model for it? any other good recommendation .. coz im trying to look for one with an audio interface that maybe allows me to easily switch inputs for recording of different synths and devices..


im looking for professional ones for producing and studio working

Last edited by gareth on Nov-28-2002 at 13:52

the audiophiles are made by M-Audio. These people make supurb sound cards. The audiophile is a good one, although from memory it has only one channel for audio in and out (stereo) and midi. I may be wrong with this.

If you want multiple channels, go for something like the M-Audio Delta 4/4 (four channels) or the delta 6/6 (six channels). I'm not sure if they have midi, but you can always just get a midi interface.

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so is this designed for producing or studio work?
like good sound quality and can handle huge amount of processing since it will involve a lot of WAVS

I have the M-Audio Delta 66 soundcard. A reasonably priced but a very good card. You can pick one up at any Long&McQuades or SavedbyTechnology in Toronto.

Where are these places located?

So what sequencer do u use ur m-audio with? can it support huge amount of wav processing? coz now i use stupid creative.. in logic i keep havin the error of system overload and sound engine cant handle all the amount of data on time or something!

so i wanna get a professional card.. coz when tehe rror comes up durin my working it really loses my creativity and mood!

so u think this card will do good ?

SAGE, would you happen to know how much long & mcquade wants for a delta44?

Gareth... a new soundcard won't fix your problem (unless its a latency issue? I'm not familiar with logic)... spend the money on a new pc

my pc is 1.8ghz 654mb ram

i think its alrite?

Michael the delta44 cost around $364 and the delta66 $490.

Gareth Micheal is right about getting a good PC. A good soundcard will only provide you with good quality recording with your synth/sequencer and zero latency monitoring etc. however, you may have the best soundcard but with a PC thats not powerful enough, you can't expect it to run Logic with ease

http://www.long-mcquade.com there are many locations so look for the one closest to where you live

as for savedbytechnology

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i have the delta 44 and I highly recommend it. great sound quality at a half decent price.

woah what car is that?

it looks like a tiburon

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I not an expert on the subject but I recently started running Reason and Cubase rewired. Until I replaced my Sblive with the Audiophile, Reason and Cubase rewired was not very pleasant to work in. It overloaded my system (P4 1.5 256 RAM) and tracks would not play out very smoothly. A more pro sound card, like the M-audio ones, will take a lot of the load off your CPU and allow things to run more smoothly. I think it's comparable to upgrading your video card to get smoother video game performance. If I'm wrong, then I'd love for someone to explain why my system overload problems went away when I upgraded to the audiophile.

You said you use a lot of wavs in your production. Does that mean you're making sample based tracks or does that mean you're multitracking long wav files? From what I've heard, multitracking is largely dependent on hard drive speed (assuming you're using few effects on the wavs). I don't believe a better sound card would improve system performance if all you're doing is multitracking without a lot of effects.