USB SOUNDCARD for Laptop! HELP!!

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polaroid

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I m a musician, and i work a lot with my Laptop. The internal soundcard of my Lap is very bad, like in all Lap´s that i know. It captures all noises from HD, and from the digital clock of the optical digital output.

Now, i have some money (not to much) to spend in a USB soundcard.
I was interested in Creative Extigy cause it has a great choise in digital and analogue in´s and outputs. But, Asio drivers for that soundcard can t put the midi feature of the souncard on.
Anyone has any opinion about this soundcard? Any link where i can find more information about this?

After many searchs, i found EDIROL UA-20. Great and cheap USB soundcard. 24 bits converter, etc..

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua20.html

Is this soundcard better than Extigy?
Is there any web page with a UA-20 testdrive?


And EDIROL U-3D?
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua3d.html

Is there any others souncards, with this price, and at this nivel?

I need help for chose my future USB soundcard...thanx!


Polaroid

PS: The principal use of my future soundcard is to record and play audio, with the maximum quality, at a low price. (I know that i´m asking too much :D )
 
Hi!
I recently baught my USB soundcard for my laptop.

If you want to record audio I think its important that you buy a card that is ASIO compatible. ASIO is a standard created by Steinberg creating a more efficent comunication between the audio device and the software, to minimize latency.

None of the creative sound cards are ASIO compatible as far as I know.

I think its also worth considoring if you want a phantom drive on your microphone input.

I baught the m-audio USB quattro. It does not have alot of features (no phantom) but it has 4 ins and 4 outs. However it is possible to extend this card with aditional features with the m-audio Omni- card. I think this is a great card worth considoring. If I were you I would save the litle extra to buy a such card.

Here is a sound card comparison chart: http://www.cdrecordingsoftware.com/card_compare.html
 
Placas de som USB nao sao a melhor solucao se voce pretende gravar mais de 2 trilhas ao mesmo tempo. O bandwidth do interface USB nao e grande o bastante para mais de 2 trilhas de audio gravados em 24bits.

Dito isso, se voce esta so gravando 1 ou 2 trilhas de cada vez, USB seria sufficiente.

Pessoalmente, se voce esta trabalhando com um laptop recomendaria usar placa com interface Firewire ou PC-Card.

O Extigy e realmente uma porcaria e nao grava audio em 24bits, somente 16bits.
 
M-Audio AudioSport

2 in 2 out wit preamp and phantom

It is 24/96 and works great. Also has Spdif out

Beezoboy
 
This may have been already said but you might want to think about some of the firewire interfaces that are out there. I use a firewire PC card and a MOTU 828 interface. THe best thing about this is I can use it with both my laptop when I'm going places and my desktop at home. This gives me 8 inputs but I can only record 4-6 simultaneously with the laptop because the hard drive spins too slow.
 
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