Advice running Onboard and Audiophile.

[Sweetloaf]

I'm getting sick of the Midi latency on my Audigy Platinum ZS so I'm looking into getting a decent ASIO 2 compatible card. My problem is that the cards I'm looking into don't support surround sound and my budget is limited to £60ish.

I'm tempted by:

M audio Audiophile or EMU 0404 (any advice here appreciated)

Because of this I'm wondering what issues I'm likely to face by running onboard and one of the cards mention above. My onboard audio is actually

Creative sound Blaster Live 24-bit onboard audio
- 24-bit / 96KHz audio quality
- Up to 7.1 CH Surround Sound, Dolby Digital ready

So I'm happy to use that for gaming. I don't mind simply disabling one in the control panel the re/dis abling via BIOS if needed and rebooting everytime I want to swap but I don't want to re-install drivers etc everytime I want to record some music.

Does anyone do anything similar or is it unwise?

I can't believe that my old Atari ST coped with Midi better than my Audigy 2

 

[Sweetloaf]

Thanks, I new it was technically possible, just hoped it would cause any major problems

Any advice on which card? Not keen on the whole USB interface thing really.

 

[Sweetloaf]

Cheers