I am trying to buy a new sound card. I play the guitar so i need it to have some sort of input for that and also play around with Propellerhead Reason. Anyone recommend a soundcard that would give me high quality input/output? I dont really care much for surround sound (as in 6 speakers and whatnot). Just want a reliable soundcard with fast response for input and output. I was looking at the Soundblaster Extigy because thats the only company i know. Or maybe anyone has been successful in make a reliable Firewire soundcard or something? something i would make on my own or buy, I prefer the former :).
The Soundblaster stuff is normally not the stuff you want to have in a studio… Midiman stuff is OK, and Terratec is said to be pretty good (I just *heard* about that up to now from everyone - no personal experience). Search for those companies.
I don’t have it (Firewire), but it’s supposed to be the same technology like the Hammerfall Digi9652 I use and I’m very satisfied. The lowest latency I experienced yet.
I haven’t noticed any latency on my delta 44 - it has a built-in monitor mixer that is controlled from a software control panel. I’d assume that the mobile-pre is setup the same way.