PCI Express sound card?
Tobiah
computer has no PCI slots - only PCI Express. So, I
need recommendations for a replacement. All I really
need is digital I/O, but a very clean audio out would
be good too.
Thanks
polymod
"Tobiah" <to...@rcsreg.com> wrote in message
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A little pricey but if you still want to use your Emu how 'bout this?
http://www.beaglesoft.com/pcie2pci.htm
Poly
Tobiah
> A little pricey but if you still want to use your Emu how 'bout this?
>
> http://www.beaglesoft.com/pcie2pci.htm
>
> Poly
I'm sure I can get a decent sound card for $139!. Actually,
they have some of these on ebay for a reasonable price. The
problem is that they lift the PCI card above its normal position
by a half inch or so. I might have to modify the card or the
case for the I/O plate to fit properly.
Tobiah
>
> A little pricey but if you still want to use your Emu how 'bout this?
Oh, and I run mostly Linux, and that adapter comes with windows drivers.
Not sure whether it would work with Linux.
Arny Krueger
Seems like a USB-2 audio interface, of which EMu has a number good ones,
would be a potential solution.
Mike Rivers
> I love my Emu 0404, but I just found out that my new
> computer has no PCI slots - only PCI Express.
When I was shopping for a new computer, I settled for an older
model largely because it had PCI slots.
E-Mu makes the 1616m in a PCI-E version. If you like the way they
do things, you might consider upgrading to that, though it has lots more
inputs and outputs than your 0404. I wonder if you can buy just the
1010 PCI-E card by itself (and it'll work by itself) since that's where the
digital I/O connectins are.
Firewire or USB seems to be the direction the industry is going.
Off the top of my head, that E-Mu is the only thing close to pro
quality I can think of. There are probably some SoundBlasters,
but you don't really want to go that route. (even though it's the same
company as E-Mu)
Maybe it's time for you to put your internal cards to rest and go
with a nice USB or Firewire interface, though honestly, I don't
have one in particular to recommend. I mostly have old stuff, and
the USB and Firewire audio devices I have are obsolete already.
Tobiah
> Firewire or USB seems to be the direction the industry is going.
I do have a Tascam US-122, but it lacks digital I/O. I was under
the impression that USB 2.0 would just barely carry audio high rez
audio, as exemplified by the Tascam's lack of 96kHz SR.
Does firewire beat USB? Any recommendations then, as to which
USB or firewire (new cpu has them both) digital I/O card I might
check out? I need the RCA flavor of S/PDIF.
Thanks,
Tobiah
Arny Krueger
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>> Firewire or USB seems to be the direction the industry
>> is going.
>
> I do have a Tascam US-122, but it lacks digital I/O. I
> was under the impression that USB 2.0 would just barely
> carry audio high rez audio, as exemplified by the
> Tascam's lack of 96kHz SR.
Simply not true.
For example, I've got a EMu USB-2 interface box that easily does full-duplex
stereo at 24/192 KHz.
> Does firewire beat USB?
That's a controversy.
What's not controversial is the fact that either can easily do 4 concurrent
channels or more, at 192/24.
> Any recommendations then, as to
> which USB or firewire (new cpu has them both) digital I/O
> card I might check out? I need the RCA flavor of S/PDIF.
If you've got me killfiled so that you didn't see my previous post that
answered these questions yesterday, I'm sorry that I'm wasting my time with
you again. :-(
Mike Rivers
> I do have a Tascam US-122, but it lacks digital I/O. I was under
> the impression that USB 2.0 would just barely carry audio high rez
> audio, as exemplified by the Tascam's lack of 96kHz SR.
The US-122, the first generation of this TASCAM line, actually uses
USB 1.1. The US-144 is similar but with digital I/O. The current
Mk II models in this series use USB 2.0 and offer up to 96 kHz sample
rate at 24-bit resolution. I reviewed the US-122 when it first came out
and I was pleasantly surprised with how good it sounded. And I assume
that these thing are only getting better.
> Does firewire beat USB?
In terms of bits per second, USB 2.0 barely edges out Firewire 400. In
practice, it's difficult to tell any difference in throughput. One
functional
difference is that Firewire handles most of the data traffic control in the
hardware and firmware (which is why it's more expensive to implement
than USB) whereas USB relies on the computer to do that work. This
can make a difference in performance when there's an otherwise heavy
load on the CPU.
> Any recommendations then, as to which
> USB or firewire (new cpu has them both) digital I/O card I might
> check out? I need the RCA flavor of S/PDIF.
The TASCAM US-144 Mk II will be very familiar to you and it has RCA
S/PDIF I/O. It has all the features of the US-122, maybe a little more
nicely implemented, including the true no-latency monitoring. It's only
$150 on the street.
Tobiah
> If you've got me killfiled so that you didn't see my previous post that
> answered these questions yesterday, I'm sorry that I'm wasting my time
> with you again. :-(
I only see one post by you in this thread where you briefly indicate
that USB may be the solution.
geoff
> "Tobiah" <to...@tobiah.org> wrote in message
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>>> Firewire or USB seems to be the direction the industry
>>> is going.
>>
>> I do have a Tascam US-122, but it lacks digital I/O. I
>> was under the impression that USB 2.0 would just barely
>> carry audio high rez audio, as exemplified by the
>> Tascam's lack of 96kHz SR.
>
> Simply not true.
Probably confused with USB 1.0 .
geoff