Re: Sound card/canvas recommendations

"Laurence Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:54:28 GMT, "JB Seattle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> At that price cap, why not just get the best Creative Audigy card.
>> In addition to the midi sounds you can use soundfonts and get
>> excellent sounds. The SD20 is an external midi mod.
>> It is not clear what you really want to do--how many mic inputs
>> would you be using at one time and frankly, I don't think you have
>> the PC power to do much with multi-channel audio input.
>
> Oh, many of us were  doing multi-input audio on that class of machine
> only a few years ago :-)  It was hard work on a P200 machine though,
> the previous generation.
>
> He mustn't get an Audigy if he wants to do multi-track audio (not
> necessarily multi-input).   The reasons why have been widely
> discussed.
>
> CubaseFAQ page www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm

Apparently not widely discussed enough to make it into this FAQ...