Need help finding a soundcard

[bewildered]

Im switching from the audigy 2 Zs, cause its giving me shit with cubase and i dont realy feel like switching programs because my card sucks, and im not looking to spend alot of money on a new one (<$200).

Basically i want a card that has:

midi in/out
headphone jack
mic jack
aux in/out
maybe a firewire port

and it has to NOT SUCK. that means no BS bugs that will give me a "sample rate" error or keep norton antivirus from loading. Like from a company that gives a damn about you once you give them your money.

anyone know of anything like this?

 

[xrap03]

you can get a tascam us122. Features:
USB audio/MIDI computer interfacing

Mac and Windows compatible

2 XLR-fed phantom-powered mic inputs with inserts

2 line level inputs (switchable to guitar level)

16 channels of MIDI I/O

Adjustable zero-latency direct monitoring

2 line outputs with level control

Headphone output with level control

Self-powered via USB: perfect for both studio and location recording

Includes ASIO, WDM, GSIF and Apple Core Audio (OS X) drivers

Includes audio recording/MIDI sequencing software

Includes GigaStudio 24 sampling workstation software and Steinberg's Cubase LE

Compact and rugged steel construction
or you can get a emu 1212m

 

[ocnor]

Do yourself a favor and get rid of Norton anti virus and any other Symantec software. That crap is the biggest resource hog and it bogs down the whole system. There are plenty of free anti virus programs that work much better.http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads29.html

 

[fova]

1. Esi Juli@ - excellent sound for the money
2. Emu 0404 - good enough, in past issues with drivers, should be solved now
3. M-Audio Audiophile 2496 - old but still good, excellent price

For these all you will need any external preamp when recording mikes and softsynth for generating of sound since it does not have any on board sound memory.

For a professional work I would not buy anything from SB.

 

[bewildered]

The juli@ ($140)and audiophile ($100) are essentially what im looking for. I would get audiophile but i read that juli has this feature called directwire, that allows you to route inputs and outputs of different signals to different programs.

As i understand it, this feature would allow me to change the configuration for a instrument live, while a seperate program like directwire would be recording it, since most programs dont let you change a track's instrument haflway through a song without creating a whole new track. For example, you know when you change the octave dial on a synth real quick while its playing a sound, and it makes that crazy computer effect, the only way to record that is to have another program recording the output signal of the source program. Are their any programs that can do this?

if their are, then it probably wouldnt be necessary to pay the extra $40 for the directwire feature.