Laptop/external soundcards

[oldbugger]

the m audio fastrack pro is supposed to be good too.

firewire is good, but im sure scotts laptop doesn't have firewire on it, and to be honest, usb isn't too bad.

it can be temprimental with things like usb modems, but external soundcards seem fine from what iv'e experienced.

i got the fasttrack pro. propper bo i tell thee.

[eyeswithoutaface]

yeah no firewire unfortunately, but i dont mind USB ive never had a problem really. The Native Instruments one still has my eye but the fastrack looks decent too. Laptop cards are new to me so all this help is appreciated, just confused as to which to plump for. Controller wise the Behringer BCF2000 looks wikid, just a little worried maybe not enough knobs but the faders look smooth i think il get that

[dirty_bass]

yeah no firewire unfortunately, but i dont mind USB ive never had a problem really. The Native Instruments one still has my eye but the fastrack looks decent too. Laptop cards are new to me so all this help is appreciated, just confused as to which to plump for. Controller wise the Behringer BCF2000 looks wikid, just a little worried maybe not enough knobs but the faders look smooth i think il get that

The behringer has a paging system remember.
So those 8 nobs at the top, are actually 32, as you have 4 banks of 8, and just use the page button to scroll to the next bank of 8.
I use the 8 faders for the vols of 8 channels, with filters on the 1st 8 above the faders on page 1.
Page 2 is synth controls
page 3 fx controls, and page 4 is extra volume controls, and master output fx controls.
Works wicked.

[eyeswithoutaface]

had a go of a friends Behringer today after work, lovely controller. Feels and looks solid, definately ordering that as soon as ive made a decision on a card, but im still really tempted by the NI card