On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Mario Mey mariomey@gmail.com wrote:
El 08/08/13 17:50, Charles Z Henry escribió:
Hi Mario
The number one reason for having an external sound card is noise isolation. The card's proximity to the power supply and motherboard are bad for EM noise. Also, a computer power supply and a good audio power supply for recording have much the same relationship--there's more noise in switching electronics.
Next, there's the size constraints. You'd have a hard time adding all the connectors for a large number of channels on a card which plugs in to your PCI(e) slots.
It's ok, I have a notebook: 1 plug out, 1 plug in.
Third: there's not as great a need for bandwidth for audio as there is with video. Video cards need all that PCI(e) bandwidth. Audio doesn't. It's a relatively small amount of data. Of course--I think USB and firewire really don't have enough bandwidth for good scalability, but that's another discussion.
But... what are you doing with it? You have different requirements for recording and for live sound. Live sound: just do it up. No one will likely notice.
Live sound is my purpose. Mic-in looping-station and multieffects system (following the steps of Beardyman and his Beardytron_5000). But, sorry about not understanding your expresion (english is not my native language).... What do you mean with "just do it up, no one will likely notice"? Should I buy it or no one will notice the difference? I think you mean I should...
Just use the onboard sound. Live performance or installations can be much more tolerant of noise. You may have to tune your patches for the hardware, but don't give it too much thought and "just do it up" (a recommendation).
I'm not familiar with Beardyman/tron_5000. That sounds cool.