Message 3/10
Date: 05-Nov-98 @ 12:21 PM -
RE: HELP! HELP! HELP! TO BUY A SOUNCARD.
ok, I have the same problem.
All I see people talking about here are these very professional (and rediculously expensive) soundcards like the creamware pulsar, yamaha sw1000xg and so on with 20 i/o and what not.
What I want to try to do is to do all my music stuff on one big system like a pII 450 with 128Mb (I'm going to expand to that soon). So I only need 2 outs. That's all. The most important thing however is that the card (and the comp of course) must be able to run multiple audioapps (sequencer, softsynths, virtual mixer, fx) at the same time. The funny thing is, that after some research I found out that with a very simple pci soundcard I can already do what I want. The Diamond Sonic Impact S90 for instance seems to be able to handle multiple audiostreams and has a high soundquality (>90db sig/noise ratio) and costs about $45.
What I want to know now, is which pci audiocard between $40 and $200 is the best and has anybody (like a magazine or something) done a comparative test.
And what about usb cards, anybody knows anything about this?