Sound cards & monitoring effects...Lexicon Core2?

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Well, it seems I've spent more time figuring out my gear rather than making music lately, but this is something I think is fairly important. I'm looking to upgrade my soundcard from my current Yamaha ymf724-based card and I need some advice. Ideally, I'd like to be able to record a dry vocal track and hear myself w/ reverb/effects in the headphones. Since I have only a minimal setup (no mixer, just a mic pre) and I don't want to invest in outboard effects, I'd like a way to do this real time in hardware/software if possible. I believe the Aardvark Direct Pro can do this, but its about twice what I want to pay and I'm quite happy with my current mic pres.

Basically, I'd like to know if I can accomplish this without having to buy a Direct Pro or dedicated effects gear. I've been looking at the Lexicon Core2 (and I've heard about the problems) which has an optional effects add-on card. Will this effects card do the real-time effects processing I need? I think if it did I could suffer through the driver issues. BTW, have the drivers improved at all?

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Lexicon Core2

What problems with lexicon Core 2 are you refering to?
This was an apealling item to me , but as it is called a "close out item" by Lexicon I am nervous to purchase.
 
Well, I'm sure someone who's had one will speak up here and list off about 10 major problems, but the main issues that I've heard of are high latency and weird driver issues where the card only seems to work with one program at a time. I.E. if Cubase works Cakewalk doesn't. Some have said that the latest drivers are a big improvement, though.
 
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