my soundcard, my soundcard

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my soundcard is a creative AWE64 16 bit audio (SB16 compatible) and it says it can do full duplex sound...what I don't get is how come when I try to have more than one track happening-either in ntrack or this music master 2000 thing I got- the second track sounds like crap. Each track sounds fine alone but when I play both at once it is beyond noise, its pain. Maybe a new driver for the sound card? I'm running two pentium 120's and I got 112 megs of ram but I'm not yet willing to upgrade this thing-yet. so any ideas?
 
It's a limitation of the AWE card. Still have the manual? It says something in there about it somewhere in the back. Try the Creative website FAQs, too. In a nutshell, the AWE64 card is full-duplex but in a slightly crippled way. In order to manage the data in both directions simultaneously, the playback stream has to be reduced in quality to like 8-bit, 11 kHz or something like that (I forget the specifics). So you can hear what's already recorded while you record something else -- but with poor quality. The actual recorded data is not changed, so if you play back only, you get the full 16-bit, 44.1 kHz quality.
 
Since you're so set on not upgrading, the commonly recommended low budget cards for *decent* recording are the Ensoniq/Creative AudioPCI and the Sound Blaster PCI128. Neither cards costs more than $30.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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