what will happen w/ new soundcard

[strev]

Hi
I've been using Home Studio 2002 since it came out and have a coupla questions:

-I'm getting ready to install a new soundcard and am wondering if there will be any problems when working w/ projects I'd recorded w/ the last (stock) card.

-Is there anything, in terms of sound quality only (not ease of use, or different plug-ins, etc), that makes any of the newer editions of HS or Sonar superior?

Thanks so much for your help.
steven

www.stevenkattenbraker.com

 

[studiomaster]

Well, what soundcard?

 

[Nick98338]

I switched one computer from a sounblaster card to a Presonus Inspire 1394. The inspire had no problems with the recordings I made with the sounblaster. And it didn't have any problems with the recordings I made with the other three sound card/software combinations I have used in the past. I would think that any "better" sound card would have no problems with recordings made by "lower quality" sound cards.

I do recommend that you disable the current sound card in Windows device manager before installing the new card/interface. Then, you will probably need to do some setup in your audio software to tell it that it has a new souncard to talk to. The audio software usually does not automatically detect, or know, that it has a new card to talk to.

I recently got access to a pretty good laptop. I've made some recordings with the internal sound card, and them used those recordings with the Inspire attached externally. No problems at all. I just make sure that the unused sound device is disabled, and the software is set to use the active device. I switch back and forth easilly.

However, the "lower quality" sound card can have problems with the recordings from the "better" sound card. I can record 24bit 96kHz with the better card and the other card can't play back anything but 16bit 44100Hz.

 

[rayc]

You'll probably have to select the sound card outputs when you pull up an old project & select the inputs when you want to add new audio etc. That's what I have to do when I transport my Pro Audio bundles from 1 comp to another with diff 'cards.