From: "Diederick van der Nat" <diederickvdnat@...> >I'm considering to buy a Audiowerk 2 card to transfer music from DAT >> CD >I'm using a Windows Pentium II 266 mHz computer with 64 MB. >What I want to know from all you experienced users outthere is: why should I >buy the Audiowerk and why not ??! >If you see the specs then it's a good card I think, but I'm worried >about the digital input: it only 'eats' 44.1 kHz (am I right or not well >informed ?) >Do you need more then only that or do you just switch to 'analog'?? Hi I have an AW8 which I assume is identical apart from the number of analogue outs. It can be a good card, but it has a few problems you may want to know about. -The card is good quality and very quiet (analogue outs), but is very susceptible to ground loops, so you have to watch where you plug all your gear into. -Many people have a problem recording from the digital in at 48k. I never record at that sample rate anyway so it doesn't bother me (up till the time someone gives me a 48k DAT) -If you use the card outside of Logic the drivers are very flaky. You get the odd jump or skip from within SoundForge or WaveLab, but mostly okay, and you definitely will playing back from MS MediaPlayer. It will even struggle or even refuse to play back anything that isn't at 16bit 44.1khz -Even recording digitally into WaveLab at 44k I had lots of problems with the audio dropouts and double copies of the odd sd etc. But if you record digitally into Logic and then edit in WaveLab you will be fine. Although we shouldn't really have to work like this. -Apart from these 'small' details the card performs well and reliably with Logic, apart from the slow automation latency. If you need to record at 48 digital then you may have problems. But if you just want to have a card to run Logic that has digital i/o then it is a fairly good card. Cheers Mat