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Originally posted by G-Con When you say that their drivers are crap, what exactly does that mean? Does the card play up, cause software to crash, or what exactly?

In my case, it's latency problems. Sometimes everything works fine with low latencies, another times you get crackle/pop sounds with any setting less than 50ms. Sometimes there's a huge latency even when it's set low. There's no reliability.

Speaking from experience, E-MU is just about the worst on that list. Not only are they crap drivers but they somehow manage to corrupt themselves every 3 or 4 reboots.

I'll give a thumbs up to MOTU, whether or not that's on your list. It's been good to me for about two months so far!

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Well now I feelin stuck.. I 'm getting a virus ti and was gonna get the emu 1616 pci cause i want a card with balanced i/o's. If emu are known to be crap then I best get something else. However I require at least 1 pair of balanced ins, 2 pairs of balanced outs (so i can cue up in ableton) and a midi i/o. Does such a card exist for less than £200

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echo audiofire 4?
echo gina 3g?

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Originally posted by echosystm echo audiofire 4? echo gina 3g?

Thanks for the suggestions..

The audiofire looks good but I assume it needs a firewire port to connect to my pc- if so i havent got one so thats no good.

The gina 3g looks like a possibility but as far as I was aware, I should get balanced ins if I choose to connect the virus ti that way. The gina 3g has universal ins. I don't even know what these are. Are they balanced? Can I connect the virus to them?

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Originally posted by G-Con Thanks for the suggestions.. The audiofire looks good but I assume it needs a firewire port to connect to my pc- if so i havent got one so thats no good. The gina 3g looks like a possibility but as far as I was aware, I should get balanced ins if I choose to connect the virus ti that way. The gina 3g has universal ins. I don't even know what these are. Are they balanced? Can I connect the virus to them?

A universal in will take balanced in, instrument in and mic in. SO it basically does everything an in would ever want to in... !

I would get the audiofire and a firewire PCI card if I were you. PCI is a time bomb (soon to be obsolete) and you would get better functionality out of the audiofire (4 out, 4 in).

Oh, seeing as youre doing the disableton thing, it will go nice with a laptop if you upgrade