Sound cards that let your recordings sound amazing!Welcome on this page, where all shall be discussed about sound cards and recording software. You already have your music instrument. You have your studio, and now you only need some equipment to record your songs and music and make them sounding fantastic. For a professional sound recording you need a high quality sound card( nothing more , nothing less), and together with the appropriate software your are ready to challenche the best into the business.
Take my word!
Why I know all that?Simply, because all the recording studios are using this soft ware, that you also can buy and use in your studio. Before the invention of the hight-Tec computers, you needed a mass of expensive equipment ( with prices that would make you dizzy). Nowadays, the quality of hard and soft ware is so much higher, and the prices are more than, let's say, acceptable. When I say sound card,I mean " the absolute sound creation. It's the ultimate form of being creative with music and a fantastic way to create new songs and music. The magic tools right in your hands. Like I said, every self-respecting studio do have this hard-and software. Simply because, when they been used in cooperation with high tech music gear( mix tables and microphones), they will give the best results.
Anyway...Now you have all access to that fantastic piece of equipment. But..., there's a but, you have not yet the experience to manage all the applications. Take some lessons first, before you can manage this kind of technique soft ware properly. That's very normal. Everything that is new you have to study first, of course. That isn't a problem, I suppose. What can you do with this kind of software?Well,with this kind of sound cards, you can record any sound source ( microphones and music instruments) Playback several channels( starting from 16 to ...)at the same time. Audio and MIDI tracks. Record MIDI( Musical instrument Digita Interface)data from your keyboard. Apply, cut-and paste techniques to your recorded music and so rearrange the recorded music parts.Mix and mastering of your music, applying effects to your audio recordings. And epending of the quality(price), many more appliance.
What Is MIDI?MIDI is a type of control info used with keyboards. With the MIDI, a keyboards works like a "musicale printer", namely, the computer sends information to it, specifying which notes you want to play, and it takes care of actually creating the audio. When you record a piano sound,with MIDI, that sound can also played back in any other kind of digital instrument ( let's say, bas, el. guitar, drums, strings...ect) A few examples of sound cards and soft ware!I give only three (at the moment) sound cards. The best known (I think). And the three are.Sound Blaster,--RME,----Echo Digital Audio This is not a review of these sound-cards. They are just examples of sound-cards, nothing more.
The Sound Blaster sound card and the Steinberg soft wareOf the sound blaster products I'll give only one example of sound card and the software from their list of recording products. So that you have an idea of where they stands for (this counts for the other two brands too). You can always visit the site if you want to know more products.The ideal versatile sound card to suit all digital entertainment experiences,the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platimum sound card includes an internal drive bay with additional, convenient front-facing input/output connectivity for headphone listening, PC gaming and Audio creation.The Sound Blaster X-Fi Platimum also includes all of the standard features, application software, power and performance capabilities of the Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic.(from the sound blaster web site)
The Hammerfall HDSP 9632 from RMEWhat does RME web site writes about their newest sound card?
It's this kind of sound cards that makes the dream of every home recording songwriter come true. As usual, RME has made any compromises: Latest 192 khz AD-and DA- converse signal to noise ratio, all inputs and outputs simultaneously operational, easy-to-install optional hi-quality analog expansion.
TotalMix, a newly developed sensational clock section with maximum jitter suppression of external clock signals-all this, that the world has been waiting for so long. An easy handle ribbon cable connects the newly developed optional A14S-192 and A04S-192. These analog expansion with 4 stereo TRS jacks offer the same performance as the on-board stereo analogI/O of the HDSP 9632: up to 192 khz reverence levels. With this a maximum of 6 inputs and/ or outputs can be achieved. This sound-card supports also the existing Expansion Boards. An internal ADAT input and an internal ADAT output allow 14 analog outputs, or the usage of a TDIF interface, direcly inside the computer. (Haven't you understand a word of what's written? I warned you,that you will need some lessons. Haven't I?
And last but not least "Echo"What does Echo's website tells us about their( high pro) sound cards ? AudioFire8 offers the same high quality hardware and software found in our popular Layla3G product, but with the addition of a FireWire interface. With the AudioFire8 you can record 24 bit 96khz audio with low latency monitoring on any Windows XP or Mac OS X computer(desktop or notebook) with a FireWire port. AudioFire8 is the perfect center for any professional studio, whether at home or on the road. It has 2 universal inputs with mic peamps, phantom power, channel inserts, and trim knots so you can just plug in your microphone or instrument and record whenever or wherever you want. AudioFire8 also comes with 6 Balaced analog inputs, 8 balanced analog outputs(trs), a stereo headphone output, 2 FireWire ports,S/PDIF I/O, MIDI I/O, word clock sychronisation, and 10 channels of full dulex 24 bit 96khz recording and playback.
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