You can spend an awful lot on an audio interface, but, like all things to do with audio there is a law of diminishing returns. I find that I get more than adequate performance from the USB2 connection on my card, but many people here are advocates of firewire, whose reliability seems to be based on ensuring your PC has a suitable FW interface. It also has a 'Hi-Z' input on the front so that you can plug an electric guitar or bass straight in, and then us a guitar plug-in in Sonar to get the amp and cab sound you want. You'll need to make a decision about how many things you want to record at once and whether they need mike or line inputs.įor example the Cakewalk UA-101 that I have has 8 line-ins but the first two have XLR mike inputs with phantom power for condensor mikes.
Edirol now badge their products as Cakewalk. Take a look at the web sites of the manufacturers that CJ listed. Do sound cards have strict motherboard compatibility like graphics cards do? So when I buy a recommended sound card I won't have to fuss with ASIO and all that stuff? And so would I select the card's own driver from Sonar? Also which are the high quality sound cards, brand and model, that you know of and recommend.
I'm not really informed about sound cards. You use the drivers specifically written for those cards.ĪSIO4all is not a driver, but a WDM wrapper and if you card hasd no WDM drivers, the ASIO4all wont work well With those cards, you do not use that generic ASIO4all driver. They all have the drivers, the A/D and D/A converters and the proper inputs and outputs needed. When you get serious about your music, look into Motu, Edirol, Echo, Cakewalk, maudio and RME sound cards. Your performance and sound will suffer using such cards Because they lack drivers, good A/D and D/A converters and 1/4 ins and outs. Otherwise I have to go back to MME :( Until you get a recommended audio sound card and stop using the onboard sound chips, youll be stuck using the worst driver mode ever made in the history of man kind (MME) Onboard sound chips are just meant for standard pc sounds and not recording programs.
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