BIGGER Purple Donkeys (Buying a Sound Card)

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Ok, I've landed a system with a Celeron 333MHz Processor, 96 MB of SDRAM and a 10 gig hard drive for free. Therefore, my next move will be putting in a bit more memory, adding the hard drive from my old cpu (since I don't have money for a new one, not for another two months or so) buying Cool Edit Pro 1.2, and a sound card since the system doesn't have a full duplex. So here's the question....

WHAT SOUNDCARD!!???!!!!???

I have absolutely no knowledge of soundcards, but I can tell you what I need.
I have a Roland JX-305, I record vocals and I occasionaly use a guitarist. If I can record us both at the same time, cool, if not, no biggie, I'm trying to save money. To tell the truth, I will proabably only have around $60 if I buy Cool Edit Pro. I just need a simple full duplex with decent multritrack capability to hold me over until the summer. Someone mentioned the Soundblaster Live Value OEM... I have no idea what that is. As you can see, I'm rambling, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance
 
Look into a fast hard drive before you consider more memory...you have an adequate amount already.

If you're looking for a soundcard for 60 bucks then a) Soundblaster Live Value b) Soundblaster PCI128 c) Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI

Don't know what they are? They're soundcards silly!

And overclock that Celeron. I bet you could get it to 500Mhz (@100Mhz FSB). NOTE: overclocking is dangerous and I don't recommend it...technically.

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You know what, I've been thinking about it and I really don't want to limit myself to only $60 if it will make the quality of my music suffer. However, I still really don't have that much cash to spend, (Cool Edit Pro is going to set me back a bunch.)Therefore, what is the cheapest, decent, full duplex soundcard (intended to record music) with, hmm, one or two inputs that I can find? I should need no more than two, I'll make do with one if my lack of money makes that the case.
 
Perhaps you should consider cheaper software like n-Track Studio ($35) and spend the money you were going to spend on Cool Edit on a better soundcard!

Gadget Labs makes a 24 bit 96khz 2-input 4-output soundcard for pretty cheap...$270 or something.

Otherwise, you CAN record two tracks at a time with any of the cheaper soundcards I recommended...all you need is an appropriate Y-adapter. Record in stereo then split the stereo track. Works very well.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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