Personally I would go with an external USB card. Pretty common with most modern home studio setups.<br><br><div>Most of them will work, you'll just want something that has midi out. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure the sound card doesn't have separate memory for sound fonts. I think that's all loaded in the system memory. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any of the cards listed here: <a href="http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USB_Audio_Interfaces/params=eyJmYWNldCI6eyJNSURJIElcL08iOlsiSW4iXX19">http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USB_Audio_Interfaces/params=eyJmYWNldCI6eyJNSURJIElcL08iOlsiSW4iXX19</a> will probably work. </div><div><br></div><div>The key words you can look for are "class compliant" to ensure that you won't have any issues with drivers. That being said: Behringer will probably give you the most bang for the buck, Lexicon I know for sure works and is one of the cheapest. Prosonus, Avid, Focusrite are all pretty well known standards. I'm 90% sure it's going to work on 99% of all of those brands devices. </div><div><br></div><div>Be careful with M-Audio. Some of their firmware in the past has been proprietary and has a few more steps to setup. (though I think there were drivers or patches available last time I checked for most stuff, just not as easy as everything else. Safe to think of them as the broadcom and nvidia of audio cards) </div><div><br></div><div>Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU), Akai, and Roland are probably overkill for the project. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>These are all USB suggestions. There are firewire cards out there that offer super low latency, but from what I'm hearing that's probably not a big concern/requirement for this project. Firewire devices all run through the FFADO layer and they actually have a list of supported devices: <a href="http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list">http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list</a></div><div><br></div><div>Obviously any of those would work, but I wasn't sure if your workstation had firewire or not. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 1:09:46 AM Panu Matilainen <<a href="mailto:pmatilai@laiskiainen.org">pmatilai@laiskiainen.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/29/2014 09:07 AM, William W. Austin wrote:<br>
><br>
> My wife composes, and for playback she has used an Audigy2 PCI card in<br>
> her desktop machine for years. That computer is beyond it's last legs<br>
> now, and her new one has only PCIE slots. (Yes she uses Linux for her<br>
> composing and playback.)<br>
><br>
> The problem is that she uses the Midi feature of that card and has<br>
> sound fonts that she loads (about 126 MB in size) into it. She has<br>
> given up trying to find one and has asked me to help... but so far I've<br>
> struck out.<br>
><br>
> Are there ANY PCIE sound which is roughly the equivalent of the Audigy<br>
> 2 cards? I won't say "money is no object", but I'm approaching the<br>
> point where cost is less important than finding such a card if on<br>
> exists.<br>
><br>
> Any pointers on this issue will be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
One possibile option that sort of side-steps the problem might be a PCIe<br>
- PCI adapter, such as<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-Express-to-PCI-Adapter-Card~PEX1PCI1" target="_blank">http://www.startech.com/Cards-<u></u>Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-<u></u>Express-to-PCI-Adapter-Card~<u></u>PEX1PCI1</a><br>
<a href="http://www.beaglesoft.com/pcie2pci.htm" target="_blank">http://www.beaglesoft.com/<u></u>pcie2pci.htm</a><br>
<br>
Mind you I dont have any experience with such products, and then there's<br>
the question of whether the lot actually fits in the chassis at all.<br>
<br>
- Panu -<br>
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