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by linni_babii Mar 19, 2003 last reply Jun 12, 2003

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What sound cards can support Cubase VST24, Finale for music recording and editing, adobe and macromedia products for animation. I need to find a sound that can support all these softwares.

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by thechas Mar 19, 2003

You may need / want 1 of the true A/D convertor cards for audio recording.

My present 'favorite' sound card is the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.

I choose it based on the best performance for the money.

Here is a good 'reference' site for sound card performance for audio recording:
http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/index.htm

The problem that I see, is that the best cards for audio recording offer limited if any support for the sound synthisizers used for game and animation sounds.

Chas

by linni_babii Jun 12, 2003

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by cg it Mar 19, 2003

Like TheChas I use the Santa Cruz. I've used the Audigy and actually prefer the Santa Cruz's EAX sterio sound over it. Also, tt doesn't have the "Bloatware" [non essential driver files that take up space and cause conflicts] that the Creative Labs Audigy sound cards have.

If your editing or creating music, the sound card isn't as critical as the software program your using to create or edit the sound files especially multi-track, Sound Forge is probably one of the better programs to accomplish this. You can edit individual tracks on multi-track or sterio [2 channel] recordings.