Recommendation on motherboard and audio interface

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  1. BEAT16

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    do you plan on buying UAD plugins if you buy a Solo (and know how much they cost) ? What is your monitoring situation like? You mentioned you only use Virtual Instruments and a MIDI Keyboard Controller. Do you intend on adding any external hardware synthesizers?

    from what you have posted; I would be looking at something like a Motu M2/M4, Audient, UAD Volt maybe, something more along those lines.
     
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    Start by buying this.

    this one is based on a genuine and very known controller from a very known company, many Asus motherboards past present and future, use their controllers, plus it's a x4 pcie so you know it's legit (hard to explain)

    and send me a message so i can see how to help out with bios tweaking.
     
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    Awesome .. does that PCIE card have US equivalent?

    Below is my configuration:

    Intel Core i75960X HaswellE 8Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011v3 140W
    Desktop Processor BX80648I75960X
    Samsung 850 Pro 256GB 2.5Inch SATA III Internal SSD
    Gigabyte Intel LGA 20113 X99 4way SLI/CrossFireX ATX Motherboards
    GAX99UD4
    Hyper x ddr4 ram - 4x8: 32 gb in total
    I'm using cubase 10.5 as daw and windows 10-64 bit
     
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    Yes !

    HDSP 9632
    32-Channel PCI Card with Multi-Format I/O
    https://www.rme-audio.de/hdsp-9632.html
    Drivers Win 10 / Win 11
    https://www.rme-audio.de/hdsp-9632.html
     
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    This is also not a sound card for making music. A sound card has AD / DA converters. A sound card from RME costs around 500 EUR, perhaps around half if used. A sound card, like your focusrite USB audio interface, is only designed as a PCIe slot card, which is where the short latency times come from. USB always takes longer because it is wired and outside of the PC.
     
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    Take advantage of the unique opportunity:

    Ebay
    Infrasonic - Quartet - 4 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Audio Interface with MIDI / HDMI [129 €]
    https://www.ebay.de/itm/185043728795?hash=item2b1577399b:g:2OQAAOSwliRhO8Hj

    Infrasonic - Quartet
    https://simsaudio.co.kr/sims_infras...oducts&command=other_insert&exe=p_PCI_quartet

    Review
    http://ixbtlabs.com/articles2/proaudio/infrasonic-quartet.html

    Strong hardware points of the new product also include new promising converters (AKM AK4620B). We've already seen them in the ECHO Audiofire 4 and RME Fireface 400.

    The AK4620A is positioned for professional sound cards, DAW, and other equipment. The codec supports up to 24-bit 192 kHz for recording and playback. Signal to noise ratio is 100 dB, dynamic range - 113/115 dBA.
     
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    man the SSL2+ drops on a good day 10ms latency with 10 NI Massives playing in Draft mode on i5 7200U CPU (thats a mobile CPU with 4 logical threads from 2016 or so). I would like at upgrading maybe the Audio interface, the CPU+mainboard? Decide what is cheaper and could bring you more.

    Which VSTs are we talking about?
     
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