Recording Guitar

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I have some questions about recording guitar on my pc before I purchase a sound card. What I would like to do is be able to record about 4 or 5 tracks of guitar, 1 track for bass and 1 or 2 tracks for drums (using a drum machine or fruity loops or something, not real drums) I have tried this before with my sblive and I could barely record a 2nd track while listening to the 1st track without it starting to sound jerky. This was with a variety of software. I also tried the pro tools demo and had a latency problem when trying to do realtime fx.
My question is, with a decent pc (1.4 tbird, 512 meg ddr ram, raid array) and that new M-Audio audiophile card could I expect to be able to listen to 7 or 8 tracks while recording another? Would I be able to do real time fx in pro tools? I am never sure when I read other posts if they are tacking about midi or audio when they talk about the number of tracks they can do.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Mhhhh I think you have a settings bug.
I can pull off like 32 24bit tracks with my PIII 700Mhz with no problem.
I used a Live with the APS drivers, now I use Terratec EWS 88MT.

Keijo
 
damn, 32 audio tracks!! What software do you use? When I tried this before I had a duron 700 but it sounds like I should have gotten better results than I did. I use win2k and a turtle beach santa cruz so the asp drivers arent an option anymore but I will try it with my current config. I guess I didnt experiment with it long enough before because I wasnt expecting that much from the sblive to begin with. I've gotten interested in trying this again because I saw the audiophile card for $150
 
Well, it sounds like your buffer settings could have been set wrong (i.e. too high). You are right not to expect fantastic results with a simple games soundcard but the problem you had with playback of tracks while overdubbing isn't really soundcard related. The one with latenc, however, definately is and a better soundcard will give you much better performance and sound quality.

for $150 you couldn't really go wrong with the Audiophile. It's a great card for the price.
 
Win 2k may be the problem

Sblive value, 400 mghz AMD K6-2, win98se. Shit set up, but I can do 16 tracks with all the plugins I need with no problems. I'm wondering if there is driver problems because of 2k. Any thoughts ? Silver
 
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