Yoda
Can anyone help me? I'm looking for a USB sound card that I can attach to my laptop for use with Atomix. At the moment I'm using the internal sound card and it's crap. Keeps skipping and produces too much bass.
What I want is an external USB sound card idealy with two independant stereo outputs and low latancy. The best looking thing I've found so far is the eMagic EMI 2|6
http://www.emagic.de/english/products/hardware/emi26.html
but it's a little expensive at £399.
Anyone know of anything like this that works with Atomix at a lower price?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Yoda :o)
What I want is an external USB sound card idealy with two independant stereo outputs and low latancy. The best looking thing I've found so far is the eMagic EMI 2|6
http://www.emagic.de/english/products/hardware/emi26.html
but it's a little expensive at £399.
Anyone know of anything like this that works with Atomix at a lower price?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Yoda :o)
Posted Tue 04 Dec 01 @ 5:22 pm
that is a nice little box you posted, but yes, lots of money.
why not just buy two USB sound cards and a USB hub?
btw, if anyone has a line on cheap USB sound cards, please post it.
Posted Tue 04 Dec 01 @ 11:59 pm
$39 - single channel
USB Digital to Analog Converter (Sound Adapter)
http://www.usbgear.com/usa/item_53.html
maybe it would work with a hub?
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 12:23 am
DJtalon
I am actually looking for PCMCIA sound cards, rather than USB ones, for my laptop - the latency with USB is too high.
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 2:24 am
Yoda
Thanks for you help guys. I'm may try the USB Gear sound card if I can't cure my laptops internal sound card glitching problem.
If anyone finds any PCMCIA sound cards I'd like to hear about them as well.
Once again, Thanx :o)
If anyone finds any PCMCIA sound cards I'd like to hear about them as well.
Once again, Thanx :o)
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 12:23 pm
DJ Rick
I Haven't noticed any latency issues with my usb sound adapter. All I noticed was a real nice improvemebt in my audio output.
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 2:31 pm
Yoda
Please tell me what USB sound card you are using. Thanx.
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 2:58 pm
DJ Rick
I had the usbgear adapter, but I think it was defective. Then I found a Telex. It's just a single stereo output, and when configured the output of this device is just a little bit lower than my on-board sound card. I went to the windows sound set-up and lowered the wave output for the onboard card by about 25%. This seems to match them up real nice.
Good Luck
Good Luck
Posted Wed 05 Dec 01 @ 3:57 pm
RME makes a great pcmica soundcard based on their hammerfall series, latency as low as 1.5ms
Echo also has an adaptor for using their layla and mona interfaces
Wamibox is a nice 4in/out option and pretty cheap. I use it myself
Magma makes the pmcia to pci adaptor box so you can use any soundcard so that gives you a ton of options
few good places to start looking. I wouldnt recomment USB as it just transfers to slow and you will get some latency and depending on your chipset, a few glitches etc. Some people dont evne like USB for midi cuz they say the timing is bad, so multichannel audio really has to tax it. Its meant for mice, cameras, printers etc. Thats why they came up with firewire
Echo also has an adaptor for using their layla and mona interfaces
Wamibox is a nice 4in/out option and pretty cheap. I use it myself
Magma makes the pmcia to pci adaptor box so you can use any soundcard so that gives you a ton of options
few good places to start looking. I wouldnt recomment USB as it just transfers to slow and you will get some latency and depending on your chipset, a few glitches etc. Some people dont evne like USB for midi cuz they say the timing is bad, so multichannel audio really has to tax it. Its meant for mice, cameras, printers etc. Thats why they came up with firewire
Posted Fri 07 Dec 01 @ 12:22 am