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An SBLive has given me nothing but grief, trying to
install it on a win2k server here at work. I bought it to >Avoid< greif,
figuring the best selling sound card must have all the bugs ironed
out.
The support person hung up on me, while I walked
away for 5 seconds to reset the machine. I could already tell by the tone in his
voice that he knew there was no solution.
THe SBlive is also very picky regarding the PCI
slot it gets under win98. I learnt that on my home
machine.
For multimedia and Digital Audio, I would suggest
98SE as the OS to use, unless the software
you want to use runs well on 2k. Logic Audio doesn't run at all. The Sound Forge
stuff does.
I can recommend the SBLive card. I've got the
MP3+ model, which lists at about $99. I've not had a problem besides a
brief conflict with the VIA chipset handling whenever new hardware is added to
the bus, which is resolved by an IRQ sharing patch available from VIA.
An addon supplies 5.1 surround as well.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 01 March 2001 16:20 PM
Subject: Sound Card question
Hello,
I have a hardware question for you
all. I want to start putting my loops online but I don't know what kind
of soundcard to get. Any suggestions on an inexpensive sound
card? My setup is a Yamaha MD-4
--> soundcard? ---> Windows 2000 machine?
Which raises another question, with the new
Windows operating systems ME and 2000, which is better for multi-media
applications like editing music? ME seems quite buggy, but supposedly
more designed for this use. Any feedback?
thanks,
Lew
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