Elijah
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Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Eh?
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 Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 19:38
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Help Please!!!!!!!!!
okay i have a question for all
i just made 300 bucks yesterday and i want to buy an audigy-2 external soundcard for 160. is it worth it to buy this as i have heard a lot of negative comments about creative labs cards. but i have a laptop and i need an external soundcard and my choices are limited i guess. I'm not sure what would be best to use for this. does it have asio support? salesguy didnt know
it seems like a good choice.
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QBical
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 20:14
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Emu, a company that develops the soundblaster cards with Creative Labs, have just released there new cards, they go under the label 'Creative professional' check it out at www.emu.com
I would recommend the emu 1820. I'm thinking of buing it, but I don't know if it has mac drivers tech support seems a bit slow...
Grtz!
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mikx
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 20:27
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kX drivers for the EMU chip (found on creative labs cards) have asio support  and the software is awesome too.
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patm
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Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 21:29
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Help Please!!!!!!!!!
i just made 300 bucks yesterday and i want to buy an audigy-2 external soundcard for 160. is it worth it to buy this as i have heard a lot of negative comments about creative labs cards. but i have a laptop and i need an external soundcard and my choices are limited i guess. I'm not sure what would be best to use for this. does it have asio support? salesguy didnt know
it seems like a good choice.
thanx guys
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I just bought a Audigy2 NX today at Best Buy store in Brookfield Wisconsin, and the price was $100.
I don't know if the price should be so high where you are.
The box lists a SoundFont Manager, but I don't see anything about AISO |
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QBical
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 22:14
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well if you use the Kx dirvers like Mikx said you get asio, since it's the EMU chip powering the Audigy, but still, take a look at the site I mentioned and look at the software included, it's like the Kx driver software, but on acid 
And there is an onboard DSP chip wich you can use as an VST
Wich means that there are build in effects you can use, and you can even use your hardware FX units via send/return on the breakout box to use them as an VST!
Grtz
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QBical
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 22:16
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never mind...
I never saw the word laptop in the original post...
The EMU card is desktop only.
Still a wicked card though...
But you can check out for example the M-audio 'Quatro' wich is a great 4in/4out asio USB soundcard 
Grtz
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Elijah
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Posted: Wed Jun 23 2004 23:14
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ok... more confused now..
the audigy 2 mobile version does not have asio?
do any audigy cards have asio
and the reason its 160 is because i live in canada |
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Sunbuster
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 07:25
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I'd suggest, like QBical said, to check out the M-audio stuff also. For instance this page shows their range of pro mobile equipment
this page also lists a nice mobile alternative (USB powered if you want to) |
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mikx
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 10:33
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pimpjuse - creative labs, being cheap and shitty, don't actually come with asio support on their software. creative software is bullshit. if you plan to buy any creative labs card with an EMU chip (like the audigy), i recommend getting some semi-professional quality drivers for it, like for example the KX PROJECT drivers. they are by far the best drivers available to use on creative labs soundcards, and they also enable asio support for the cards..
i hope this straightens things out..
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Wich means that there are build in effects you can use, and you can even use your hardware FX units via send/return on the breakout box to use them as an VST!
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whoaaa.. would this mean i could plug it into my mixer and use effect send/return to trigger effects for my mixer channels? (i.e. the same as plugging a standalone EFX unit into send/return on a dj mixer?)
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Elijah
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 15:31
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ok well i already bought the damn thing..
money burns a hole.
but ok then so i can download these drivers or do i have to buy them seperately.
and i think when i buy a tower computer i will buy a sweetass soundcard but this will be good for now. it should cut down on the hissing when im using my studio mic, and thats all that really matters.
and plus, it should cut down my audio latency a bit too.... right? 
PS - thanx for all the feedback guys |
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mikx
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 15:58
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the drivers are free. www.kxproject.com
good luck, its pretty tricky to get all the things in the mixer DSP thing wired up properly (you'll see what i mean). so if you need help with that, we can meet on IRC and i'll show u what goes where.
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Elijah
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 16:21
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the drivers are free. www.kxproject.com
good luck, its pretty tricky to get all the things in the mixer DSP thing wired up properly (you'll see what i mean). so if you need help with that, we can meet on IRC and i'll show u what goes where.
mikx
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thanx bro.. i appreciate all the help.
ive been pretty good at understanding this stuff. but the whole surround think kinda worries me. (composing in surround... its probably hard) anyways. i will meet you, message you, something. do you have msn? |
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Blaster
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 17:17
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All Audigy cards have Creative Asio drivers. Just update the drivers if you haven't. It's included in all Audigy 2 cards I think.
Tascam US-122 is a cheap external usb soundcard. |
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QBical
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 17:24
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ive been pretty good at understanding this stuff. but the whole surround think kinda worries me. (composing in surround... its probably hard)
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There is one answer to composing in surround...
Dont!!!!!
Grtz
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Elijah
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Posted: Thu Jun 24 2004 17:45
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| QBical wrote: |
| PimpJuse wrote: |
ive been pretty good at understanding this stuff. but the whole surround think kinda worries me. (composing in surround... its probably hard)
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There is one answer to composing in surround...
Dont!!!!!
Grtz
Qbical
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why not?
hard? |
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