Well, you could look at a MOTU 2408 system. This has 8 analogue inputs and 8 analogue outputs on the breakout box. It also has 24 digital inputs and outputs on the breakout box. So, if you had a digital desk then, you could ether run 16 digital inputs, plus 8 analogue inputs. That would give you 24 inputs. You can also configure the outputs in the same way. Or, you could run 24 digital inputs and outputs. Or, perhaps you may wish to look at a different MOTU system. They do a PCI card that attaches to a breakout box that has 24 analogue inputs and outputs. Ether of those systems would only use up one PCI slot. So, you would have a second free PCI slot which, you could use for a second sound card to run Jaws. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions Music and audio production URL: www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Schuppe To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:26 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Need help deciting witch Soundcards I need Hello all again, After the disaster with the Emu 1820M witch is 99,99% damaged I need now help to decite whitch other Soundcards I should take. Here is my Hardware Situation: I will have 1 PCI slot free from the Emu card there could be pluged in one M-audio Delta 1010 witch I will do 99%. Then I will have 8 in-and outputs. But I need more because I have 4 synties here and also need to connect a mixer and a micro fone as well as an cd-player later on. But I only have 1 Internal PCI-slot avalible. So I think the best solution is to start with 1 Delta 1010 card at first and buy an USB soundcard later on with the additional in-and outputs that I need. I have wanted the Emu so much because it has all what I need to have. Because of possible IRQ-problems I have disabled the Realtek AC.97 Audio under Hardware, de-installed the software from the "ad/remove programs" sektion and with help disabled the Onboard sound (AC.97) in the bios. To hear jaws I have connected an USB-head set now witch is showing up in the system correctly. That may not be the best solution but for now it works. So at last I would need 3 cards: 1 for Jaws, and 2 Delta 1010 or what ever for my music system. I am sure that one of the 2 music cards will be an usb-card or even an simple soundblaster connected via USB to hear jaws. This are my thoughts what do you all think? Is there an USB sound card out that will help me and feed my needs? What else system setups would you recomend? I want to use a solution witch is blind user friendly and where I can get support from a few people who have the cards running. It has been such a mass with the Emu card. But this is realy not emus fold I think. To be onest I think the dealer wo installed the Emu made a mistake. For all who are interessted here is my hardware setup again: Here is my Soft and hardware configuration: Prozessor: Intel Pentium-D 930 Ram: 1 module RAM DDR2 533 1024MB Aeneon Mainboard: Asus P5ND2-SLI Revision 1.03 Grafik: XFX Geforce 6200 128MB PCI-Express Onboard Soundcard: Realtek AC.97 Audio (complitly uninstalled and disabled in the Bios because of may be IRQ problems) Hard drive: Samsung SP0822N 80GB 7200 U/min IDE Cd/DVD Player / burner: DVD RW burner Philips SPD2400L1 Highend soundcard: Emu 18 20 M (gone now) Box to change hard drives: ICY Dock IB-128SK-B SATA Tower: Delux MG420 Kayboard: Cherry G81-3000LPNEU-D Layout Software: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Including service pack 2, Multilanguage-Edition Jaws 7.0 Sonar 5.0 Caketalking scripts for Sonar 5.0 (CT5.0.16) Ofcorse because the Soundcards are not working probperly I have not installed any components of Sonar or Caketalking yet. Thanks again for your help and your commends / suggestions!:-) Best regards from Germany, Patrick Schuppe