soundblaster livedrive

[PHILWILL]

Does anyone know if this is good for hooking up your music keyboards and getting sound directly into your computer.

[sludgehammer]

I just got a soundblaster live platinum a couple of weeks ago and I run mixes into my computer using the line in on the front panel thingy and it works fine. I think it should work for running a keyboard in if you're just making a wave file. If you're talking about multitracking, I'm not sure, I guess it depends what kind of software you're running. Hopefully someone else can give you more info or maybe you've already tried it and figured it out yourself by now?

[PHILWILL]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sludgehammer:
I just got a soundblaster live platinum a couple of weeks ago and I run mixes into my computer using the line in on the front panel thingy and it works fine. I think it should work for running a keyboard in if you're just making a wave file. If you're talking about multitracking, I'm not sure, I guess it depends what kind of software you're running. Hopefully someone else can give you more info or maybe you've already tried it and figured it out yourself by now?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for the reply-I have not purchased the live drive yet but I wanted to and I thought I would ask if anyone had tried it yet.
My software is cwp9, which i have not learned how to use that well yet either.
I am going to plug my keyboard straight into the drive. But I have to figure out how to record it as wav instead of midi. Any suggestions

[sludgehammer]

I run stuff in using Soundforge or Wavelab. They save audio as wave files. when i got my SBL Platinum card, Soundforge came with it. Is cwp9 Cakewalk? I've got cakewalk too but I don't even know where to begin as far as making it work. I suppose I could read the manual but I'm not very motivated since I've never used any kind of Midi stuff. Boggles my wee little mind.

[Track Rat]

If you want to do primarily audio on your computer I'd stay clear of sound blaster and move up a notch. You can get a great interface for not much more.

[poet]

You can directly input your keyboards/vocals or guitar through the LiveDrive panel. The biggest problem is that it can only record 1 track at a time. You can select it to record "What-U-Hear" but you'd get it all as single track and would have trouble adding effects or processing the individual sounds.
That's my experience but I am no expert.