Professional Sound Cards?

[SteveD]

Marty, Thanks for your advice. Are you using one of these and if so which one? Also do you have any idea on costs?

Thanks,

[MTUSUPPORT]

Thanks for the Input Marty.

It sounds like the problem is the sound card using or needing to much CPU usage at the time, which as you stated on a Higher end sound card it should use more of its own DSP instead of the Processor.

[SteveD]

I know this sounds strange but processor activity for all of the sound cards that I have tried have not gone higher than 40% CPU activity during the reading of the singers CDG. It is not a matter of maxing out the CPU. I am using an AMD 3000+ 64 bit processor with 1GB of OCZ ram.

This same problem has been occurring on both systems I have built. The only sound card out of 4 total sound cards that works properly is the Sound Blaster Audigy. The problem is that it can't deliver the quality of sound that the Mia Midi and the Maya 44 can. The difference is very noticeable, even to the point that customers have commented on it.

I am tired of buying sound cards (1/4 inch inputs and outputs) that can't deal with reading a singer’s CDG while playing another singers song. I would really appreciate some feedback from people using some "high quality" sound cards that are not experiencing this stuttering problem while reading a singers disc.

[Blastenfrog]

Something i have found is when importing a singers disk if Hoster is not maximized completely then the current song playing will boggle. However, if it is maximized I do not have that problem. I used SB Audigy external sound card when hoster is maximized i have never had the boggle problem when importing another singers songs. However i would be interested in the sound cards that the above poster was talking about.

[SteveD]

Are you talking about the Hardware Acceleration and the Sample Rate Conversion Quality settings? If so I have tried every possible setting to stop the stuttering. With the Maya 44 the stuttering gets less and less as you reduce the settings to lower levels of quality, but with both of the settings all the way to the left it still reamains.