Do any of you use this with an external sound card? Is it necessary? My laptop has a worthless card, and it cannot be upgraded.
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You can. I have a four channel mixer that I run my guitar to ( it's an Lexicon Lambda) it works great when I'm recording piano or guitar. I use a pair of Audio Technica headphones to listen to my mix plugged into my Lexicon. When I don't use my Lexicon I just run straight through my speakers when I'm mixing virtual instruments.
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I also got a laptop. I bought a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 and it works well with MixCraft. At first I was scared 'cuz it didn't recognize the 3rd and 4th inputs from the Focusrite, but I just needed to change some settings in the Preference section, to ASIO and it was solved. Four channels at the same time, which is sufficient for me, for the moment. I also got a Zoom H4N and it also works fine with it. I still havent tried to connect both the Focusrite and the H4n and check if I can do a simultaneos 8-channel recording.
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Thanks to your suggestion I plugged a Logitech camera/microphone into one of the usb ports (the one on the left side) and sound tested ok as did camera. That should rule out some parts of the machine (like the sound card I think). Anyone able to do this as well?
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This should work well as a good replacement for a damaged headphone port on my laptop (win7, 6gb ram) correct? I can use the yellow port for headphones/external speaker right? That's what I read... what you think?
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Yes, this is an external sound card, you plug it in with a USB cord. You will plug in your mic into the sound card. The reason you are getting a hiss is probably due you using the mic on the laptop. The hiss that occurs then is from the laptop fan being close to the mic. I had the same issue.
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No, this is analog you need a soundcard for it. MAybe look for some external ones, not as good but better. Don't waste your money for this for a laptop.
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I'm not a computer tech but my experience is that I purchased this Syba USB Sound Card because my internal sound card stopped working. I'm remembering, I think, that I still had to have speakers. So you can plug anywhere and use existing speakers... but I'm not sure. You should email the Syba mfg.
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I am using mine on a laptop. Once the software is loaded it will set up the USB unit as default. It over-rides the laptop sound chip. My sound chip still works but not when this unit is on. I have solved this problem on other laptops with with cheaper usb devices that give you no-frills sound. You might want to try one of those to make sure a device like this will work. If so, I highly recommend coming back and buying the x-fi.
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I used an external DAC. You could also likely use an external sound card as well. It cost about $125 I think. I've been very pleased.
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"The mic", I had to buy a USB Converter, but I got mine for $2.18. So its not to bad. I got mine at ----> HDE 7.1 Channel USB External Sound Card Audio Adapter. The mic isn't powered, so it needs a usb converter. Plus almost all computers have usb, not line-in.
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You don't have to buy a sound card to have them sound good but if your motherboard doesn't have on board 7.1 sound on it then it's best you get a sound card. I'm using my on board 7.1 and didn't buy a sound card and they sound great to me but could be better with a sound card. Getting a sound card isn't a bad investment for your computer though if you don't have one
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u can prob plug headphones or speakers into this unit and it does have a sound card,but to be honest there are better units or stuff like that on the market,have u tried going to ur computers official site and redownloading the soundcard drivers,solid states don't actually have real sound cards,the drivers work on laptop
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NO. External only. The whole deal with external sound cards, which this is on a miniature scale, is to by-pass the laptops super cheap on-board sound processor and hand off the process to a dedicated, full featured Digital Signal Processor, DSP. The laptop circuitry is optimized for size and cuts corners, clipping high and low tones. The sound card fully processes the signal for a richer, fuller sound. But.... it's an external, pre-amp signal for an external amplifier. The internal speakers are completely by-passed.
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I run Linux on my PC, so I can't address the Windows issue. And I don't think I even used the USB interface at all ... I just used the "line-level" output, and plugged that directly into my PC's sound card, and that worked perfectly.
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I don't find any reference to it being an external sound card. I use it as a distribution center to get audio from my home theater system into my computer system. It works great for that with no noise. It's also used to record from LP's to CD. I hope this helps.
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From what I have read, better speakers would be a better investment before changing the sound card. Have a look at this forum. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/58378-6-speakers-sound-card
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Nope. Sorry. This is just a Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) connector. For sound, try using a bluetooth enable speaker or you can plug your external speakers by means of an audio jack. If your laptop has speakers, that can produce sound too...
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Hi Deborah,I have been successful with my hookup and audio. At this point I would make sure your laptop supports a direct HDMI connection and that you have changed your audio output in the control panel under whatever O.S. you have.Hope this helps.Also, in some situations, the audio is going to default to the laptop if the connection is a HDMI Input. You want a HDMI Output on the laptop.