[LAU] USB audio device recommendation?

[Ken Restivo]

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My spiffy new ASUS laptop that I thought was so great, is saddled with the dreaded Ricoh firewire chip (as well as having it on a shared interrupt with, well, *everything*).

Rather than throw good money after bad and buy an external FireWire card, I may be a smarter move to give up on FireWire and try USB instead. (And, no, it's too late to return the laptop. Which is what I knew would happen).

I do *not* need high-bandwidth, heavy-duty multichannel audio I/O. I don't record bands or live audio. Almost all my music is done inside the computer with softsynths. I will have stereo outs, and that's all that will used. Occasionaly I will plug in a guitar, so I'd need one (1) Hi-Z input. So a simple, cheap interface with two analog/SPDIF out and two analog ins, is really slightly more than I need.

I would, however, like as low latency as possible. I'm used to -n3 -p128 on firewire, so if I could find a USB interface that could handle that, I'd be totally happy.

The M-Audio Delta seems like the default answer. Any other recommendations?

- -ken
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