Need advice on second hand Korg soundcard

[Big Craigie]

I'm not a "Pro" but I thought I'd ask here because, well, you are the
professionals and shoudl know best. Anyway I have been offered a Korg 1212
I/O soundcard quite cheaply. It's fully boxed etc and the previous owner is
a friend and is a Cubase expert etc. He's moved on to greater things but
offered me first pick on this.
Money is tight for me and I have other considerations i.e a new car but I
really must look into this soundcard as I myself want to start moving on the
music world. My current setup is Pentium III 600 Mhz, 20 Gb HD (soon to be
80Gb), 256 Mb ram (soon to be doubled), Soundblaster Live Platinum card with
breakout box. I work mainly with Cool Edit pro but I am actively learning
Cubase SX (which actually runs fine on my Windows 98 SE machine). I am not a
Cubase power user in that I don't have millions of tracks and thousands of
VST instruments running at the same time. I have been brought up on a Fostex
4 track portastudio so anythingthing more than 10 tracks is unknown
territory for me. In Cubase I tend to work with soundfonts in creating the
music which means I have 0 latency then I audition the VSTi. Even with the
SB Live card I am down at 42ms latency which is fine for me. This is teh
question, would the Korg represent any significant leap for me as far as
performance and quality. Currently on the SoundOnSound small ads website the
cards are between £55 and £85 so it will not break the bank but money is
still an issue regarding priorities.
Secondly, would the two cards happily reside side by side on my machine.
Many thanks and I look forward to your replies.
--
Big Craigie
Remove yourclothes to e-mail me

[Justin Ulysses Morse]

forget about the P.O.S. Korg card and get an M-Audio "Audiophile" 2496
card instead. The converters on that card are downright usable, and
it's a modern card with modern drivers that are compatible with modern
software such as Cool Edit Pro (now known as Adobe Audition). The 2496
sells new for under $150, which should be in your stated ballpark.

ulysses


In article <bij3vv$659$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>, Big Craigie
<bigcraigie13yourclothes@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm not a "Pro" but I thought I'd ask here because, well, you are the
> professionals and shoudl know best. Anyway I have been offered a Korg 1212
> I/O soundcard quite cheaply. It's fully boxed etc and the previous owner is
> a friend and is a Cubase expert etc. He's moved on to greater things but
> offered me first pick on this.
> Money is tight for me and I have other considerations i.e a new car but I
> really must look into this soundcard as I myself want to start moving on the
> music world. My current setup is Pentium III 600 Mhz, 20 Gb HD (soon to be
> 80Gb), 256 Mb ram (soon to be doubled), Soundblaster Live Platinum card with
> breakout box. I work mainly with Cool Edit pro but I am actively learning
> Cubase SX (which actually runs fine on my Windows 98 SE machine). I am not a
> Cubase power user in that I don't have millions of tracks and thousands of
> VST instruments running at the same time. I have been brought up on a Fostex
> 4 track portastudio so anythingthing more than 10 tracks is unknown
> territory for me. In Cubase I tend to work with soundfonts in creating the
> music which means I have 0 latency then I audition the VSTi. Even with the
> SB Live card I am down at 42ms latency which is fine for me. This is teh
> question, would the Korg represent any significant leap for me as far as
> performance and quality. Currently on the SoundOnSound small ads website the
> cards are between £55 and £85 so it will not break the bank but money is
> still an issue regarding priorities.
> Secondly, would the two cards happily reside side by side on my machine.
> Many thanks and I look forward to your replies.

[Analogeezer]

"Big Craigie" <bigcraigie13yourclothes@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bij3vv$659$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>...
> I'm not a "Pro" but I thought I'd ask here because, well, you are the
> professionals and shoudl know best. Anyway I have been offered a Korg 1212
> I/O soundcard quite cheaply. It's fully boxed etc and the previous owner is
> a friend and is a Cubase expert etc. He's moved on to greater things but
> offered me first pick on this.
> Money is tight for me and I have other considerations i.e a new car but I
> really must look into this soundcard as I myself want to start moving on the
> music world. My current setup is Pentium III 600 Mhz, 20 Gb HD (soon to be
> 80Gb), 256 Mb ram (soon to be doubled), Soundblaster Live Platinum card with
> breakout box. I work mainly with Cool Edit pro but I am actively learning
> Cubase SX (which actually runs fine on my Windows 98 SE machine). I am not a
> Cubase power user in that I don't have millions of tracks and thousands of
> VST instruments running at the same time. I have been brought up on a Fostex
> 4 track portastudio so anythingthing more than 10 tracks is unknown
> territory for me. In Cubase I tend to work with soundfonts in creating the
> music which means I have 0 latency then I audition the VSTi. Even with the
> SB Live card I am down at 42ms latency which is fine for me. This is teh
> question, would the Korg represent any significant leap for me as far as
> performance and quality. Currently on the SoundOnSound small ads website the
> cards are between £55 and £85 so it will not break the bank but money is
> still an issue regarding priorities.
> Secondly, would the two cards happily reside side by side on my machine.
> Many thanks and I look forward to your replies.

I would never buy a software based product from Korg, Alesis, or just
about any other company that deals mainly with hardware based stuff.

Korg in particuliar is really bad about just dropping stuff...they had
a pretty cool card/system (for synth processing) with the Oasys, but
dropped it like a hot potato, now it's Win 98 or nothing.

I seriously doubt they are doing much with, by, or for the 1212 any
more.

I agree with the 2nd poster, just get a modern card, they would not
run that much more and you would be able to use it longer.

Then again if you are a glutton for punishment, try and find one of
those Lexicon Core systems, I heard they were a bunch of fun <g>

Analogeezer