The Cheapest ASIO Soundcard on the Planet...

[Jack Squat]

Don't hear much about this one.CMedia has included an ASIO driver for its
CMI8738 soundchip.This soundchip is available on many soundcards for less
than $20 US.I've tested it with Cubase 5 and Logic Audio 4.7 and the latency
is near zero! (it's under 10ms for sure...VSTi response is instant).The
drivers are at www.cmedia.com.tw.Hard to believe...

[Flemming]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:47:23 GMT, jsq...@huhwhat.com (Jack Squat)
wrote:

No asio reference at that site... (or am I blind??)

[Jack Squat]

You're not blind...there is no reference,which is pretty stupid.This is a
very obscure feature that I found out by accident.The name " ASIO C-media
8738" shows up in the ASIO flip menu in Cubase, Logic,and Magix Music Studio
G6...I swear on a stack of bibles!

[Joakim]

This sounds amazing, could be a good startingcard for my brother which would
like to try some pc-recording. Do you know where i can buy a card online
with this chip? I'm not sure i understand you correctly, but are there cards
with this chip for $20?

Best regards

Joakim - sweden

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[rew]

I can't seem to find them...

[rew]

Oops! silly me. Found 'em. They're just included in the .zip file - without
any fanfare whatsoever....

[dp]

Nice find Jack.... Howz the midi/audio timing? Does it also have midi I/O
capability? This could be a god-send to users who can't afford to plop down
several hundred $$.... Thanks for the heads-up.

dp (dongle protected)

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[les burns]

Interesting... The list of manufacturers, and the products that utilise the
chip looks quite promising. Which soundcard did you choose?

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[dp]

What are your system specs Jack??? In particular, which soundcard?

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[Jack Squat]

In article <8r9T6.114176$I5.26...@news1.rdc1.tn.home.com>, "dp" <d...@yeehaa.hoho.com> wrote:
>What are your system specs Jack??? In particular, which soundcard?

I've tested this on a Celeron 500 and a Pentium2 350 with 96mb RAM.The card
I'm using is called the Artis 738s1 with 24bit SPDIF I/O.Problem is that the
manufacturer installed the non SPDIF version of this chip so it doesn't
work.Doh! The cheapest I've seen a soundcard with a CMI8738 chipset was $7 US
on Pricewatch.com.The Guillemont Muse uses the CMI8738 and should be easy to
find.Don't use the WDM drivers at C-media because you wont get the ASIO driver
(use Win9x/Me).I was amazed when I started using the C-media ASIO driver in
Cubase.It was faster than my Crystal CS4614 card that I had gotten down to
11ms using the Directsound full duplex driver.There is no ASIO control panel
with this driver, so you don't have to geek with buffer settings....Doesn't
need it!

[Filip Marchal]

I've been looking for a soundcard with this chip. So
far I've found one company which supply the card with the ASIO
drivers. Actually their software is the same as CMedia, only
a different package.

Check out: http://www.leadtek.com/4xsound.htm

Where to buy: http://www.leadtek.com/where.htm

And yes it also has a midi interface.... :-)

Hope this helps

Filip Marchal

[Nick.Mattocks]

This chip is integrated into many motherboards with on-board sound too :)

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