I'm trying to build a new computer that'll last me a while and I've been hearing great things about this card. I really dont know much about mixers and monitors and such, and i was wondering if it's possible to hook up my regular creative labs speakers to this card, and then get a mixer and some monitors later on? Perhaps i should just go for the revolution 7.1 and upgrade later? What do you guys think?
M-Audio 2496 PCI card
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Re: M-Audio 2496 PCI card
are you talking about the audiophile 2496? if so , i have the card.. its ok for most basic digital connections, but if your running a mixer you can connect whatever you like,, only problem with it is the limited # of I/O if your doing live multitrack recording.. get an aardvark, or one of the big brothers to the 2496. you could convert the analog outs on the composite RCA to 1/8 " stereo to run to your regular computer speakers, and also use the digital out at the same time...i run direct digital from that i/o card to my digital monitors, and run the analog outs to an analog amplifier and such. as far as the inputs its the same thing. youve got digital , and analog, and you can use them at the same time. so if you want to run a mixer to either of them its no problem. the routing software works well, and it seems to play nice enough with other audio I/O cards to work simultaneously. latency is very low, so you can route stuff through it just to do analog to digital or sigital to analog conversions if you like. it performs well, and allows internal or extrernal scource clock for synching if your doing live digital recording that comes in handy to slave it to a master clock if need be. all in all, its a nice little card for the money..
are you talking about the audiophile 2496? if so , i have the card.. its ok for most basic digital connections, but if your running a mixer you can connect whatever you like,, only problem with it is the limited # of I/O if your doing live multitrack recording.. get an aardvark, or one of the big brothers to the 2496. you could convert the analog outs on the composite RCA to 1/8 " stereo to run to your regular computer speakers, and also use the digital out at the same time...i run direct digital from that i/o card to my digital monitors, and run the analog outs to an analog amplifier and such. as far as the inputs its the same thing. youve got digital , and analog, and you can use them at the same time. so if you want to run a mixer to either of them its no problem. the routing software works well, and it seems to play nice enough with other audio I/O cards to work simultaneously. latency is very low, so you can route stuff through it just to do analog to digital or sigital to analog conversions if you like. it performs well, and allows internal or extrernal scource clock for synching if your doing live digital recording that comes in handy to slave it to a master clock if need be. all in all, its a nice little card for the money..
Re: M-Audio 2496 PCI card
right!
.. the only issue with the limited I/O would be for live multitrack recording, where you would want to keep each instrument, or incoming channel of audio discreet for later sweetening and mixdown on the comp in the editing software. .. in that case even using a mixer means your mixing all your stuff together into a maximum of 4 channels (digital l+r and analog l+r) and you cant keep all the parts seperate that way. for that you would need a card with more channels of I/O . doesnt seem like thats what hes looking to do anyway though 
right!
.. the only issue with the limited I/O would be for live multitrack recording, where you would want to keep each instrument, or incoming channel of audio discreet for later sweetening and mixdown on the comp in the editing software. .. in that case even using a mixer means your mixing all your stuff together into a maximum of 4 channels (digital l+r and analog l+r) and you cant keep all the parts seperate that way. for that you would need a card with more channels of I/O . doesnt seem like thats what hes looking to do anyway though