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kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

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Originally posted by Zombie0729
Eric J -- be honest with us here, do you work for a hardware/software manufacturer?

anyone who asks about gear i always point them to the most expensive unit saying "learn from my mistakes, i've rebought gear 1000000 times over, i've been thru 4 sound cards in 2 years, 4 midi controllers in 18mos and i could go on"

if you're at all serious about music making, save up... go with the best and you won't have to keep losing money everytime you have to rebuy a nicer piece of gear.

back to the thread topic i own a motu ultralite(after going thru a series of cards) and love it. drivers are rock solid, support is awesome and it sounds great. what's leaning you towards a PCI card if you don't mind me asking?

I agree, I think its best to buy the best you can and think about what you'll need in the future. He didn't say that he was a beginner either, so thats not really an issue. I assume that this guy's been producing for a while and wants to make sure he has good sound quality. I do agree that beginners should use their on board sound for a while (unless they need inputs) but if your going to buy something, make it something good.

I would go for something from MOTU, presonus or echo audio, they seem to be the best. M-audio and emu have a bad reputation for introducing a lot of latency from what I hear.

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Oct-14-2007 02:37 Australia

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kaymak
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Dublin

Cheer for the feedback guys,

Just a quick breakdown of mu problem tho,

I cant use any PCI cards as my motherboard only ha 2 spare expansion slots, A PCIe x16 and a PCIe x1, I wish it was as easy as getting a nice audiophile card,

From looking round the new all the PCIe cards seem to be around the €800 price,

Im kinda lookin for a solution where I can spend up to abt €300,

I only really need the card for the drivers and for good latency so my pc can run a sequenser and a few vst's to get my self back in the game ,

I hope you guys in your infijnite wisdom can recommend something to get me goin,

Cheers

Kev

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kitphillips
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

There are some PCIe cards around, but thats not really my interest so I can't help much. If I had that much money to spend I would look at the 20 channel presonus firestudio or have a look at some MOTU thing with less channels but maybe better performance.

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kaymak
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Dublin

Ok guys,

I think ive decided what im doing,

Im gonna get a FW150 PCI-X Low Profile Half Height Firewire Adapter Card and then get the M-AUDIO FIREWIRE 410 or something alomg them lines,

Im hoping this should do the job and get me going,

Im taking it that this should suffice?,

Any ideas?

Amd again, cheers for the help

Oct-15-2007 13:00 Ireland

Tarpex
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Kamnik, Slovenia

Just make sure that the firewire card has texas instruments chips, otherwise you may encounter all sorts of problems, most common and dead serious of which is a non-detected soundcard out of the blue after a few days work, and you can barely do shit about it.

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Oct-15-2007 14:07 Slovenia