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I am getting bored of listening to music on my laptop speakers (Vaio 1.8ghz pcg 791m) and aswell as not being able to connect speakers or headphones into the line and headphone sockets. Some bizarre reason no wires work on it, on the rare occasion I will get lots of cracks and clicks before the sound just dies or it only plays on one speaker but mostly it doesn't work at all. I want to change this because I may consider taking music seriously soon. I have 3 USB ports and two are a Intuos 3 Wacom graphics tablet and the other connects to a 250gb harddrive. My warranty has passed, and I doubt I want to tear apart the computer. I am not sure if something exists where you get the same line/headphone functions on a USB-extension which would replace my computers. It's a bit of a shame I have not been able to use my speakers which I've had for over a year now. Any help appreciated What kind of hardware should I be after? |
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I think you could get an external soundcard but I'm not a specialist. |
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For a comparatively cheap one, you could get one of the soundblaster extigy series of cards. They're not bad sound quality, I've used them on club PAs before and it was adequate. |
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Ok, I think i was talking about external speakers. the laptop speakers are fine. I just don't like the fact that the base is relatively poor and any microphone or hardware that has line output won't work. If im going to invest in a Keyboard is a necessity? I just want to hear better quality sounds, through the proper speakers I got with subwoofers. My brother has an apple computer and uses an M-Audio keyboard and an M-audio box but this won't work with my computer because I have a PC and there is no driver installation. |
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im sure there might be driver installation on the internetation. i heard the base was poor in one 'shade' place. |
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do you have a PCMCIA slot? http://www.amazon.com/Creative-PCMCIA-Blaster-Audigy-Notebo ok/dp/B00067KZJI |
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I dont really understand what you want, but I'm pretty sure it is a USB soundcard. Also I am sure you can get windows drivers for all M-Audio gear, their website is very good for drivers actually. |
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yeah, im agreeing with everyone here, you want a usb soundcard. i second the reccomendation of the sb extigy, because in addition to a 5.1 (or 6 or 7.1 now prolly) output, youll get lots of inputs and outputs that are quite useful (midi, spdif, rca, etc) |
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OH I see! thanks It looks beautiful, I thought soundcard was an internal thing (as in the laptop hardware) I need to get clued up on this technical stuff. Looks beautiful. What would be a complementary keyboard, is it LE or M? |
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i have the audigy zs notebook on pcmcia and i'm quite comfortable with it when it comes to play music. for recording it's shite though |
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whats the problem with recording when using sb-extigy? I have a PCMCIA but the price looks a bit steep whats the problem with recording exactly? What sort of recording, poor keyboard recording? I was thinking about producing music, whats a good alternative? bare in mind i'm a student, thanks again |
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a good starting point might be an M Audio Ozone , its a USB keyboard and sound card in one, makes things a bit more straightforward for you getting started |
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