3 Choise,which one?

[Hoi]

Please help me to suggest a sound card with
my limited budget.
1.Creative Sound Blaster live + Sound blaster
live Drive II.SBL drive II seem can have a
MIC input that i can mic the guitar amp to
record the guitar sound.The price of SBL
is around $70 usd and drive II is $130
2.EGO Waveterminal 2496.It have 2 analog
input and 2 analog output.price around
$380
3.Midiman 2044,have 4 input and 4 output
.Price is around $240
Choise 1 and 2 are found in coputing centre
and 3 are found in Muscial instrument shop.
I live in Hong Kong so there is not much choise here and the price are quite expensive
in the instrument shop.My main purpose is
to record the instrument 1 trach by 1 trach
and mix it use Cakewalk.Also,i found a message that said Midiman 2044 have some problem with cakewalk.Is it right?
So,please give me some suggestion.Thanks a lot.

 

[Cakey2]

I have had no trouble with a 2044 and cakewalk

 

[Tapehead]

My experience with the Soundblaster card is that is not recording grade...it's not well shielded and therefore puts out too much noise. I would steer clear of it. Advertising bumpf aside, it's a consumer card meant for games... I have a Turtle Beach Montego on my system at work and the difference is huge.

 

[drstawl]

Tapehead: I've A/B-ed the SB 128 against the TB Montego using the same Altec Lansing ACS295 speakers.
Yeah- the Montego was cleaner but the difference wasn't "huge". To get huge you have to bump the card up to something like the GINA or the DAL Card D. I don't consider the TB to be recording grade either.
Cakey: What did you use before the 2044?

 

[Cakey2]

Hmm, for about 8 months I was on a turtle beach tropez (ISA!), and that was was actually OK too, brilliant compared to what I had before that - generic SB compat that came with the 'pooter! That went 'wubble wubble wubble' on every recorded signal!!

 

[Hoi]

So.is Midiman 2044 good ?Or does anybody have
try the waveterminal one?I know this soundcard are korea madem,is this sound good?
thanks