Mesh 320 Posted June 13 Mine was this 8x8 Gadget Labs Wave 824 and I think I got it somewhere around 2005. The PCI card was connected via a 6ft. 25-pin D-sub connector. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 799 Posted June 13 Some very expensive Turtle Beach card that this new software called Cakewalk (v1) required. 😉 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pwalpwal 111 Posted June 13 (edited) esi wavterminal 192m with the MIDI- / Digital-I/O Add-On Extension: Edited June 13 by pwalpwal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
synkrotron 265 Posted June 13 blimey! it was ye olde Sounde Blarster, with a EMU daughter board 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InstrEd 539 Posted June 13 34 minutes ago, synkrotron said: blimey! it was ye olde Sounde Blarster, with a EMU daughter board Me too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zargg 50 Posted June 13 Hi. My 1st AI was the M-Audio Delta 1010lt Had it for almost 10 years, before I sold it, in great condition. Drivers got a bit messy at the end. All the best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msmcleod 790 Posted June 13 Not counting the soundblaster clones, mine was the Yamaha DS2416 DSP Factory: Cost me half a months wages at the time, but ran like a dream in my Cirrus P-166 with 64MB RAM. As soon as they started appearing on the 2nd hand market, I bought another and had them linked together along with 4 x AX44 (the breakout box in the drive bay). I also had the AX16-AT ADAT card interface for them, which had fed by a Behringer ADA8000. The two cards gave me a 48 track mixer with dynamics & 4 band parametric EQ on every channel, and 4 x effects units (each the equivalent of an FX500). I got nearly 20 years use out of these babies.... and they're still working on the Win 7 32bit boot on my studio PC with SONAR Platinum. This is the reason I hardly touched a plugin until about 5 years ago. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amicus717 118 Posted June 13 When I first realized I could do music on my computer, I was using an Creative Audigy2 (which I had added for gaming purposes), and stuck with it for a year or so as it could load Soundfonts, and I had a whole bunch of them. My first actual audio-specific soundcard was the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI. Great little card, sounded clean and was stable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arlen2133 25 Posted June 13 2 hours ago, synkrotron said: blimey! it was ye olde Sounde Blarster, with a EMU daughter board Me three! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kitekrazy 198 Posted June 13 Yamaha SW1000XG - biggest waste of money ever. I was pretty ignorant about buying soundcards and thought it would compliment my Yamaha portable keyboard. Newer chipset made it obsolete during the XP era. Yamaha is the king of doorstops . All of my M-Audio (2) AP2496, AP192, FW410 are still working. Doorstops Tascam 822 PCI - made by Frontier Designs, nice low latency, go it free with Gigastudio. No 64 bit support. Terractec EWX2496 - one of the most underrated budget cards. Ran it on a W10 system using beta Vista 64 drivers while it never bluecreened Windows would report errors. I could probably pop it in my old Intel system and it would work. Echo Mia - I wonder why Echo stopped making audio interfaces. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zargg 50 Posted June 13 53 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: Echo Mia - I wonder why Echo stopped making audio interfaces. Same here. I had a Mia I gave to my son, and had an Echofire 8 as my studio AI for a while. Great quality, both devices. They went into multimedia and gave up on Pro Audio equipment around Win 7/8. All the best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
batsbrew 37 Posted June 13 TEAC X10 then this: then this: then my first digital interface: the beginning of the descent down the rabbit hole. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msmcleod 790 Posted June 13 Well, if we're including them then.... ...which was only EVER any use with the battery pack, because of a constant mains hum with the PSU. Followed by: Then finally.... + Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Christian Jones 50 Posted June 13 I got this ISA card in about '97 and used it for quite a while, hooked up via plain old red/white audio cables to a Mackie 1402vlz. I used to hound the guy at Digital Audio Labs over the phone constantly trying to get it to work as I had no idea about buffers etc back then. I think it even cost almost $300 back then too. Somewhere in early 2000s I wanted to get their CardDeluxe but ended up w/ the Echo Gina for a minute, sold it and had the M-Audio Delta 1010lt for a second, sold it and got the RME 9632 which I'm still using. I plan to stick with RME and get their flagship soon. As for that Card D Plus, I'm waiting for it to appreciate before I hit the vintage market with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craigb 799 Posted June 14 I ignored all the sound cards prior to Cakewalk v1 since those weren't for making music (and were mostly SoundBlasters). This was sound card #2. And this was #3. #4 is still TBD! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeeringAmps 21 Posted June 14 Tascam 688 synced to Cakewalk 3.0 via MOTU midi interface Then onto Pro-Audio via Sound Blaster Echo Layla Tascam FW-1884 RME UFX Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amicus717 118 Posted June 14 If we are listing our entire soundcard history, I better expand mine: Audigy 2 M-Audio 2496 PCI Emu 1212M PCI - (was a huge step up from the M-Audio, especially in terms of converters -- first time I fired it up, the sounds coming from my monitors was a whole class of sound better, cleaner, more detailed, etc. Loved this card, although the drivers were twitchy) Mackie Onyx 1220 w/Firewire Card Roland V-Studio 700 (great control surface, great interface, if only it had been maintained with proper drivers and the integration with Sonar hadn't slowly died away) ESI Juli@ PCIe and now an RME Babyface - which I love, and has convinced me to stick with RME going forwards. Best interface I've ever used, with the best drivers... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Christian Jones 50 Posted June 14 27 minutes ago, Amicus717 said: Mackie Onyx 1220 w/Firewire Card How did that Onyx work for you? I never owned one but I followed for a while the nightmare w/ the drivers that a lot of people were having on Mackie's forum back then. I don't know the percentage of people who had issues vs those that didn't, but there seemed to be a quite a few. I did almost buy one of those Mackie Onyx mixers that had the interface built in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
