Hello,
I’m planning to buy a new soundcard, and i would like to know if some of you can give me some good tips?? 
Thanks,
Jeroen 
what exactly are you looking to do with the card?
i don’t require a lot of i/o but i do need low latency and a good set of A-D converters for basic sampling and line in (recording trax off my gameboy/from mixer).
so i wound up withe the MAUDIO AUDIoPHILE 24/96. it’s treated me pretty well.
and i think it’s THE cheepest “pro” soundcard w/ ASIO right now 
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Mmm, I’m using MAudio Delta 1010, but anything from the Delta series should be very good
Terratec dmx6. SNR < -100 db. Good for sampling. Maybe a bit to expensive? There is a lite version. Just missing some connections compared to the full version. The price is around the Audigy 2 card.
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Get a midiman delta series card and be happy. Cheapest in the series is the audiophile 2496. Forget about soundblaster (sandblaster). Forget Terratec. Many report problems with their ASIO drivers.
i use a turtle beach santa cruz card. it gets the job done. haven’t had any problems with it yet.
I’m one of that “many” 
Until last version, by the way, even DirectX drivers had some problems
Still the EWX 24/96 is a good card after all
hmpf… i was playing with the thought of gettin a terratec dmx 6fire in the distant future when i have money again… because (not only) i’ve read so many good comments about it’s asio drivers… funny
I agree, I have one myself and they are realy good! very low latency, stable drivers etc… I havn’t had any problems at al with my card…
Thanks,
I looked at M-audio and i looks really good. some are really expensive
I think i’ll buy a new computer only for music so i also want a new professional soundcard.
Any tips when buying a new computer( Processor AMD, pentium) speed??, memory?? other thing???
I won’buy a whole system but go to the local computerstore and let i put together with all different components so i’ll have the best setup for only making music.
Some little thing: I use a lot of VSTi’s 
Thanks,
JR
FWIW:
My system is an Athlon XP 2000+, 512Mb RAM, running Windows XP.
Sound card is an Audiophile 2496 (and also a Turtle Beach Montego - but that’s just so I can connect my DB50XG daughterboard).
The system runs very very fast, my latency in VST plugins etc is negligible (I have it set to ~8ms, and it can go lower but I see no need to do so).
It’s also not an expensive system at all. Well under £1000.
People will often say to avoid Athlon chips for music software, and always stick to the (much more expensive) Pentium IV chips. But in my limited experience that’s rubbish- I’ve never had any problems whatsoever.
I’m using an Terratec EWX24/96 … differnet latencies depends on the soundcard-settings … must say don’t buy a soundblaster (audigy is the same hardware-base) … not coz of the latencies or quality of the soundcard - soundblaster has a good quality … i must say in comparison width EWX the soundblaster sounds simply ‘thin’ and not so linear.
there are a lot of comparison sites between Creative and Terratec cards: Terratec beats Creative in everything but game support.
Since I don’t waste my time with videogames, Creative cards are of no use for me, though I happily own a SB PCI128 which is an “everyday tool” which costs really nothing (less than ReNoise!! ).
just wanted to point out that I won’t ever change my Terratec for any Creative toy.
PS: I’m not a Terratec dealer 
@ paul connel
People will often say to avoid Athlon chips for music software, and always stick to the (much more expensive) Pentium IV chips. But in my limited experience that’s rubbish- I’ve never had any problems whatsoever.
Is this only with renoise or also whit other music programs(cubase,logic for example)
Thanks,
JR
Correct me if I’m wrong but the reason for this is built on an old truth that has become an die hard myth. In the childhood of AMD thouse processors wasn’t 100% compatibel with the pentium, and because of that some programs didn’t work on AMD, espceially not some music-soft that was written in pure assembly… Today the compatiblility is almost 100% and therefore this is not a problem anymore, but some people still prefer pentium for music purposes just because they still belive in this old myth 
it’s the question: are the cpu’s incompatible or the software in combination with 2 available cpu’s. there are differences between the cpu’s - logical. and there are some software-companies with more interest to intel (pentium) i think … and the biggest damn company is Microsoft … 
the reasons why some people stay away from athlons in audio-computers is that athlons are hotter and therefor louder than pentiums.
and second, the athlon platform has suffered from unstable 3rd party chipsets in the past… that’s why some people think athlons are crashy.
about performance - a tough decision if you buy today. because athlon beats the hell out of P4 in float performance, and thats exactly what you need for audio.
but the P4 has SSE2 and in software that uses these instructions instead of the usual float stuff it’s muchos faster.
but today there are very few SSE2 optimized synths and you probably have to wait another year for that to become standard…
so I’m definately not going to buy an AMD: I use the PC in my bedroom, and sometimes I try to leave it on during night, but it’s too noisy to let me sleep 
…and it’s a P3… can’t imagine what nightmares could I have sleeping with a
roaring AMD chip close to me
I also suffer heat a lot 
if you spend a bit of work and builed noise-dim into your pc case it should get pretty silent… i’m planning to do that for ages, but haven’t found the time so far… i’m lazy… but my (amd) pc sounds like a jetplane
I’m upgrading my computer this week, to a Athlon XP 2400+, 512Mb DDR 333MHz CL2 RAM, Asus a7n8x (nForce2 chipset) mainboard. I’ve orderd a “Silent Twin” CPU cooler, it wasn’t very expensive. I’ll get back to you about how noisy it is… (Compared to my current PIII computer).