Sound Cards?!?

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I have a KORG N1 hooked up to a mackie 1202 mixer which is hooked up to my computer. I use cakewalk's SONAR. when i record midi, everything is great. When i record audio, i get a hissing in the back of recording. I tried plugging my keyboard directly into my soundcard, and i still get hissing sound when i record it as audio. i try to set levels properly, but i can't get rid of hissing. Is it my soundcard? I have windows XP, 256 megs of ram. I think i have a CONEXANT RIPTIDE soundcard that came with computer. what is the top soundcard i can get, within reason of price. i want to rid my hissing.

please help me, i'm new to this.

thanks

p.s. in order to put my midi tracks on a cd, do i have to record them over again into audio files in SONAR? is there a special function that translates midi files into audio files in SONAR?
 
rlimon said:
....what is the top soundcard i can get, within reason of price....
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That depends on how much money YOU have to spare. ;)
 
hmmmm...

ins and outs? well...let me just tell u what my goal is. I want to record a bunch of tracks in sonar from my keyboard. then i want to record a bunch of microphone tracks. then mix it and make a cd. so far, i have my keyboard plugged into one channel in my mixer, and a microphone on to another channel (which includes pre-amps in mixer; makcie1202). i want to be able to record a bunch of tracks, then sing over it whe playing it back.

1.) my audio recording is hissy?

2.) i don't even know if my mixer is hooked up correctly. I have my MAIN OUT going to my computer which goes to my speakers. i am having latency issues, and don't know if i hooked this up incorrectly.

any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks
 
could be your soundcard creating the hiss,make sure you are not accidently recording into the microphone input of your card. ditto on midiman ,they have working wdm drivers,and cards that start at about $159. if your mackie has direct outs w/signal interruption to main bus use the directs to go to your card,minimal signal chain is usually best if you can swing it. bring the output from your card back into one or two of your mackie free channels and then you can use the mains to monitor with. good luck,keith
 
The reason for the hiss is that the soundcard you are using is almost cetainly a half-duplex card and not full duplex. This means that it is not capable of playback and recording @ the same time. So it fills the audio with white noise. The earlier soundblaster cards suffered from the same problem.

Look at the Delta range of cards, they give good value and have an excellent performance.
 
Freudian Slip,

Thanks so much for the link. One can't imagine a better resource for somene trying to decide which soundcard to buy.
 
You're welcome

sibleypeck:

Ya those sights helped me alot in my decission making when building my setup.

Later

F.S.
 
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