Xeron Brigs Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 I downloaded a copy of Guitar Rig 3 the other day (its a really cool program) but there is one problem with it: my latency is absolutely terrible due to the fact that my Laptop does not have a dedicated sound card. I tried the same program on my older Desktop (which has a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio) and using the card's support for ASIO, I was able to get my latency down to a respectable 9ms. To do any recording on my Laptop, I am going to need to get a Sound Card. The only question is, what kind should I get? The only one that I have found that would work with my laptop so far is this: [url="http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product=16642"]Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook[/url]. I would like to get a Sound Card that is connected by either USB or Smart Bay, works well with both Video Games and Recording, and is affordable. Something similar to [url="http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=audiokontrol1&L=1"]this[/url] would be ideal. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 have you looked at MAudio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccabe Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 How much do you want to spend? I've been looking for something recently but for a desktop box. As far as I can tell, you can have either good games/entertainment performance or good audiophile performance but it's not easy to get both, at least not for a reasonable price. A friend of mine has an E-MU systems 1616M PC Card version, but that's mainly for recording. What sound device does your laptop have? Does it have ASIO drivers? If not, have you tried ASIO4ALL on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeron Brigs Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 (edited) [quote name='jmccabe' post='239559' date='Jul 14 2008, 03:55 PM']How much do you want to spend? I've been looking for something recently but for a desktop box. As far as I can tell, you can have either good games/entertainment performance or good audiophile performance but it's not easy to get both, at least not for a reasonable price. A friend of mine has an E-MU systems 1616M PC Card version, but that's mainly for recording. What sound device does your laptop have? Does it have ASIO drivers? If not, have you tried ASIO4ALL on it?[/quote] For me, I don't want to spend a whole lot of money, as I am not all that serious about recording yet. (My skill level isn't where I think it should be, I'm not in a band, etc). I would say that $300 would probably be the max that I would want to spend, although I would prefer to spend less if possible. My Laptop has the basic "Realtek HD Audio Manager" that comes standard with every copy of Windows Vista. I tried using ASIO4ALL, and it didn't work as intended: it would only play out of my Laptop's default speakers, and not the ones that I have plugged into the thing, although the latency did decrease somewhat (but not to a level as low as my desktop.) Still, it is a good temporary fix, so thanks for pointing that out. The Sound Card doesn't have to be a Video Gaming powerhouse, just something to improve sound quality, and possibly take some strain off of my CPU when running something like Crysis. Having a Sound Card with the equivilent of Creative's "What U Hear" would be really nice. Hope this information helps. Edit: After tweaking with it some, sound now plays out of my regular speakers. This should hold me over until I get a new card. Thanks for telling me about it. Edited July 14, 2008 by Xeron Brigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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