I've heard that you should stay away from creative for production, I personally have a soundblaster and im switching to a m-audio product soon, from what Iv'e heard they are really good, but there are other products on the market that people will recommend.

There are a few posts on this board about the audiophile and delta, search for em, they have all the technical specs.

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I think the ASIO 2 drivers that come with M-Audio cards would make them a better choice over a creative card. And yes, there are other options out there. It really depends on what you want the card to do, if you need midi connection, do you require digital lines, do you want rca or 1/4" connections, do you have any hardware synths?, etc etc.

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ASIO drivers on the audiophile are way better. You will be able to play effects and instruments in real time (i.e. without a delay between hitting a key and getting someesound)

But you will have to wait atleast 40ms to hear anything on a BSLive :/ But if you are only programming in step time then it does not really matter =)

no competition - M-Audio all the way. Their drivers are rock-solid.

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Yeah I own an Audiophile.. I can get about 5ms without pops on ASIO with a single VSTi instance.. not bad.. sounds great, NEVER have had a driver problem, and the cost can't be beat for the quality..

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Just to let you know, the soundblaster audigy platinum pro has got ASIO 2 drivers, so you should be able to get pretty low latency from them. And it does 24/96

Having said this, I've no idea how good the soundblaster is, since i've got a delta 44 and couldn't recommend it more.

There's only ONE thing i'm not happy about with the M-audio, and that is it has no hardware acceleration for directX games! The soundblaster definitely does. Just in case that's a consideration as well.

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Sound Blaster Audigy 2 lets you make rich 24-bit recordings to your PC with an 24-bit/96kHz recording capability, while ASIO support allows compatible music creation software to link directly to ASIO compliant hardware, allowing multi-channel recording simultaneously at 16-bit/48khz at ultra low latency of <=2ms.

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Originally posted by The Designer Sound Blaster Audigy 2 lets you make rich 24-bit recordings to your PC with an 24-bit/96kHz recording capability, while ASIO support allows compatible music creation software to link directly to ASIO compliant hardware, allowing multi-channel recording simultaneously at 16-bit/48khz at ultra low latency of <=2ms.

that sounds like an add for Creative... either way, I've never seen/heard of a pro producer or studio using a creative card.. they all use M-AUdio or EMU.. Creative is for basement producers..

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Wow, thanks guys!
I see that Maudio is popular but just a final question, which of the sound cards is better to record WAV ?

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Record your wav files on anything apart from am SBLive, seriously.

SBLive has way to much aliasing problems and generally suffers from poor A/D filters. If you layer enough quiet samplles recorded with a SBLive, You will end up with loads of hiss and generally regret doing so later on.

Thanks ,
umm, does the Maudio have an inner buffer which reduces the burden on the CPU? hope you understand

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