GOOD PCMCIA OR SMALL USB SOUNDCARD?

[Buttman]

Hey!

I have the Echo Indigo I/O now which I am very happy with but it seems its time is running out (it refuses to work properly every second time I use it).

So I guess it is time for a new one.

Which one though?
It must not be PCMCIA but it is preferrable due to its size. A small USB card could be good too.
Keep in mind that I bring it on many gigs so it should be durable!
And above all low latency! =)

[dan the acid man]

i'd probably go usb then

[Buttman]

It took a week and it did not say much ;)

[machina]

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machina

[TechnoNRGKid]

Noone mentioned firewire?

[dan the acid man]

Noone mentioned firewire?

i'd rather have usb2 than firewire

[vadarfone]

I am also having issues with my Indigo. Its a brittle peice of plastic shite in my opinion, and is more trouble than it's worth.

I wish I had gone external...

[TechnoNRGKid]

Noone mentioned firewire?

i'd rather have usb2 than firewire

Why is that?

[stjohn]

id nearly go with a firewire one too. i think its slighty lower transfer rate than a USB 2, firewire is 400 mbs and USB 2 is 470 or summin. but Firewire has higher sustained data transfer rates, thats why its used for Video and Audio alot. ..... ive not heard much about PCMCIA tho whats the deal therE?

[Buttman]

Firewire - I have no ports for that on my laptop.

[Barely Human]

Ok, if you want to go down to speeds, USB2 is faster than firewire, and pcmcia is faster than usb 2.

Personally i dont know which good card thier are out there at the moment, but i would go down the pcmcia route...

[TechnoNRGKid]

Firewire - I have no ports for that on my laptop.

You can buy pcmcia firewire cards.
Dunno if it's all worth the extra to shell out with money but just so ya know, they are around.

[TechnoNRGKid]

Firewire - I have no ports for that on my laptop.

You can buy pcmcia firewire cards.
Dunno if it's all worth the extra to shell out with money but just so ya know, they are around.

[TechnoNRGKid]

Firewire - I have no ports for that on my laptop.

You can buy pcmcia firewire cards.
Dunno if it's all worth the extra to shell out with money but just so ya know, they are around.

[tocsin]

I've had no problems with the M-Audio Audiophile at USB 1.1. Actually, strike that, I've had one problem. If I tried running Ableton and Reason at the same time on my laptop, there would be a slight latency issue between audio that my software was generating and what I was doing with external gear. However, being that I don't use any external gear for the stuff I do with Ableton, problem was quickly fixable by just closing Ableton and running Reason standalone. For straight laptop rock though, I've never had a prob. Use it with a machine that has roughly 300 megs of RAM and a Celeron 2.0 ghz processor. Not exactly an extreme setup.