NO MIDI IN EXTIGY?ASIO drivers SUCKS?

[polaroid]

Hy.

I m a musician, and i work a lot with my Laptop. The internal soundcard of my Lap is very bad, like in all Lap´s that i know. It captures all noises from HD, and from the digital clock of the optical digital output.

Now, i have some money (not to much) to spend in a USB soundcard.
I was interested in Creative Extigy cause it has a great choise in digital and analogue in´s and outputs. But, Asio drivers for that soundcard can t put the midi feature of the souncard on.
Anyone has any opinion about this soundcard? Any link where i can find more information about this?

After many searchs, i found EDIROL UA-20. Great and cheap USB soundcard. 24 bits converter, etc..

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua20.html

Is this soundcard better than Extigy?
Is there any web page with a UA-20 testdrive?


And EDIROL U-3D?
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua3d.html

Is there any others souncards, with this price, and at this nivel?

I need help for chose my future USB soundcard...thanx!


Polaroid

PS: The principal use of my future soundcard is to record and play audio, with the maximum quality, at a low price. (I know that i´m asking too much )

 

[Stealthtech]

I would not use Creative products for recording...period !!

The other 2 units may be ok...Ive never been in the market for USB interfaces so I have no pro opinion. But if I were, I would check out the Edirols.
Perhaps you can find a demo in some store to check out its quality.

 

[djc]

Yeah, Creative sucks. You are always going to be pretty limited with a lap top anyway.