Lomaxx
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Searching for multipurpose-soundcard.
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Thanks for the quick reply, Eloise. You made me realize that i still was not precise enough about my plans/situation, although i already wrote a lot. =) I am planning to compose mostly electronic, but maybe also orchestral music in a good (as good as i can) quality. The type of music will variate and be influenced by a lot of genres (Pop, Funk, Jazz, Country, Classic, Rock, etc. pp) but the instruments will mostly be software synthesizers and samples of real instruments. Additional i will experiment with a microphone and samples from a mobile recorder. Also i will want to play the softsynths on a keyboard (thus the need for the low latency). No recording of live-played instruments or bands will be involved. Because of this I will mostly only need connections for a headphone, a microphone (can be a normal 2xline-in as i will be using a preamp), midi (for the control-keyboard) and maybe some sort of digital out for future purposes. Just some more analog outputs would be necessary in order to go for the above mentioned surround-setup with active speakers. So the Asus Xonar Essence ST would fit so far. At the moment i have a Maudio 2496, but that lacks a direct way of connecting the headphone and the option to go for surround. Also the ST seems to sound better. Just thus rumours about the bad latency made me fear. -
Hello. Today i wrote an email to Computer Audiophile asking for some information, which was answered by an automated message pointing me to the forum. I didn't realize that the AC-computer is quite large and that there is a forum. I thought it would be sort of a small one-man-blog. But, well ... now i made it here and would like to ask the following. I am looking for a soundcard for the following usages: - stereo-hifi-listening (over headphones and 2 active studio-monitors) - music-creation with Propellerhead Reason 5/Record (over headphones and 2 active studio-monitors) - the option of applying more active speakers for surround-sound in gaming/movie-watching. - all the above in Win7 (32 or 64bit), but the card should also be supported quite well in Linux as i would use Windows only for gaming and running Reason/Record I am planning to use the upcoming Beyerdynamic DT 1350 as phones and something like a pair of Adam A8X/A7X, together with one or two rather precise-sounding music-listening-subwoofer (in opposite to a cinema-subwoofer focused on preasure) like the Nubert AW-991. For a surround-setup i was thinking of buying 2 additional studio-monitors for a 4:1 (or 4:2) setup. I think i am better of with a phantom-center over the front-pair of monitors instead of using a real one below or above my monitor as i am sitting pretty close to it compared to someone who is watching movies on a TV several meters away. For this i thought about using the Asus Xonar Essence ST together with Xonar H6 extension board. However i read some terrifying rumors about huge latency when using the ST(X).Have you got any experience how well the ST performs in 192-khz-ASIO-mode in music-production regarding latency or do you have the chance to test it with the cost-free available demo-version of Propellerhead Reason 5? Alternative recommendations would be welcome to. So far i was looking for a pci/pci-e card as i was hoping for the lowest latency there, but if there is a firewire-/USB-soundcard which suits my wishes it would be an option as well. Thanks for any information. Lomaxx