> everyone seems to think that the sb cards pretty much suck for the price
> (besides the sb lives, pretty decent for a <$40 card). if you like inputs
> on a breakout box that you can mount in the front, look at the terratec
dmx
> 6-fire or their mt-88. also, everyone says the rme products are the shit,
> but that's a little too expensive for me as of now...
>
Hi all,
My first post :> Just had to chime in :>
Yeah, RME products are the shit.
However, if you are willing to make certain compromises, the absolute best
deal in music gear is a Korg Oasys.
Upside of Oasys:
- more DSP power than a protools farm card (tons of effects, virtual synths,
samplers etc on board, and not those yamaha GM crap ones.)
- most of the samples and instruments from the Korg Triton and it's
expansion sets
- latencies almost as good as my RME Hammerfall
- I've seen it in stores for less than $300 US
- better A/D D/A than most outboard gear. Really clean sound. A/Bing it with
my old yamaha promix made me sell the mixer.
The Downside
- the card was a total bomb, so the is >no support< from Korg, other than
hardware repair. You are stuck with what you get - this includes
win2k/XP/OSX drivers. You are stuck with win98, or OS9 on the apple.
- they haven't been in production in a while, so finding may be hard.
However, if you do find one, it'll probably be pretty cheap. (The card
originally retailed for $2,000 US, and if Korg had pulled it's head out of
it's arse, it probably would still be selling for that much. It's practially
a Triton on a card (with lower polyphony albeit, but with virtual synths and
a massive effects bus)
I have it sitting in a Celeron shitbox in my machine room, who's only
purpose in life is now to power the card. I use the ADAT in to bus audio
from my main machine through it's effects and analog out.
Check it out - it rocks.
sserendipity
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