Out of all of what's on the market (native audio), I personally think that the MOTU products are very close in spec's to that of Avid's Digidesign Pro-tools hardware. I wish their products did'nt cost so much, but then again, you get what you pay for. So in essence, we're paying for the converters and everthing else is just thrown in. The others on the market are for us budget minded folk.

Im looking to upgrade my daw from the Tascam us-428 i have now. I was almost set on purchasing the aardvark Q10 but then i started looking at other things like digital mixers. I know with the Q10 you could record 8 tracks at once which each show up in Cubase as 8 different tracks.

Howdy

I have a P3/1Ghz (or something, where can I find all the technical BS about my MOBO on a PC) currently with a Frontier Designs WaveCenter PCI card. I'm looking to turn this strictly into a "synth" machine.

http://www.CDrecordingsoftware.com/card_compare.html

FYI - I plan to buy a separate preamp in addition to the soundcard.

I was thinking of buying a dbx 386 ttp://www.zzounds.com/ite…

and running S/PDIF out of it into 'Brand X' soundcard's S/PDIF input (for simple guitar/voice recordings - I am the ONLY client - lol)

Or should I buy a FMR Audio or M-Audio PreAmp and run the signal analog to 'Brand X' soundcard's XLR or 1/4' inputs.

hi there all...my first post.

I found this group while searching for information about getting myself a fancy new capture thingey.

Guess a lot of topics like this is posted on the board but I hope someone got the time to help me out a bit.

I'm planning on getting a mac with dp4 and I'm not sure does the MOTU 896 firewire act as a soundcard? if not what is its purpose and what is a great sound card to get for a mac. i want to use digital and analog in/outs.

Can you give me a good chain from say a keyboard or mic to the cpu.

like mic - mic preamp - a/d conv. -etc. also please refer me to a great mic preamp.

Grateful thanks for any help or insight on this matter ! I just built my own DAW system, AMD 1.7 ghz XP, SiS chipset, Win 98SE, Soundblaster Live!, Tascam US-428 (for 24 bit audio). The really annoying problem I am having is that there seems to be electonic noise "seemingly" coming from the computer into my mixer(similar to the little zipping noise you get when you move the mouse).

Hi Guys...
i built a new machine and i need to change my sound card.. 'cos my old machine will continue to use my Layla20.

I need to buy another Sound Card to work with this new machine ( Dual Athlon 2000+ - ASUS A7M266-D 1GB Ram ).. what do u suggest ?