why do people spend a grand on a cd player when you can get one with the same features for 200, quite simply because it sounds better. The same applies to soundcards cheap crappy onboard sound is inferior to a decent dedicated soundcard, the components are of cheap quality and being close to other core components can often lead to interferance such as when the hdd is being accesed

you can produce on just about any computer, i used to use a shitty 800mhz laptop before i got my current computer, it is most definatly the person behind the tools rather than the tools themselves. Having said that if you are getting a computer specifically for production you want to configure it what is best for you to produce on, for a computer whose main purpose is audio it makes sense to me that you would want the best most accurate soundcard (within reason) i would rather produce on a slightly slower computer with a better soundcard but i guess thats personal preferance, some people cant even tell the difference between a decent and a crap soundcard anyway but thats their loss :P

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Originally posted by Rob If you're not going to be recording, what on earth is wrong with using an onboard soundcard? What are the pitfalls that make you so against them, because I must be missing something

my onboard sound chip is really good BUT i must keep latensies like in 50ms if multiple vst's used and midi keyboard used. that why i use my m-audio insteed it!

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