

However, not every notebook has a built-in FireWire controller. But for playing on midi-keyboard delay will be heard (sometime, of course).įire Wire audio interface less susceptible to such shortcomings as audio delay and bus delays of stream audio data from the computer to your sound card. So allows to hear your voice in headphones without delay.

Recorded signal is issued to out immediately, without pass of computer.

When recording vocals or guitars USB аудио interface have the possibility of direct monitoring. Solution this situation is using an additional controller PCMCI-USB (extension card) at laptop.Īdvantage of USB card: every modern notebook have this interface. Sound card and other USB device(s) (as example, mouse) connected together negatively affect to sound stream stability. This is due algorithm USB computer interface, which sometime makes impossible pass USB multichannel audio with high sampling rates. It may occur at sampling frequencies above 44100 Hz. Sound card USB may have (not for all models) audible delay of sound when you press MIDI-keyboard or when using computer as a "live" (real time) guitar processor. The beginning of articles about sound cards here. These devices have computer interfaces USB or FireWire ( IEEE 1394). External sound card is module designed for mobile recording studio or concerts, when single solution is to purchase a laptop and an external sound card.
