I can back up point 3. The Darla would freeze a perfectly stable machine on a very regular basis. It and the asus p2ls wouldn't play together (the card was moved to different slots too). Yet a p2b would be okay. Both mobo and card were replaced and the problems continued. The eventual solution was to replace the card with another manufacturers. The problems went away immediately.
--- > 3. Echo/Event Layla/Mona: These PCI cards have been around for a while. I've > just bought a Mona. This has four inputs with preamps/phantom power, six > outputs, and a host of digital ins/outs. The Layla is even better (although > I don't think it has the preamps/phantom power). I talk to the Mona through > ASIO although I found an incompatibility/bug in Steinberg's ASIO SDK - > luckily this comes in source form so it's fixable. Comments: the digital > engineering seems very poor - this "plug and play" card had an IRQ conflict > with my existing audio card, an old Gina by... Echo/Event. This resulted in > all sorts of odd Windoze crashes, mostly resulting in bluescreen. It seems > that neither of their cards bother to do the plug and play "negotiate" > thing.
