G5 Without Additional Sound Card?, Will it work without one? Options

[yingtong]

I'm planning on buying a dual 1.8 GHz G5, but I can't find a ref anywhere about whether they will run Logic + soft synths etc without an additional sound card.

Do I need an additional sound card? Other than greater I/O capacity, what would an additional sound card allow me to do? If I'm doing all my processing, sequencing and recording inside the G5, is a sound card necessary (other than the increased I/O)?

Cheers.

[fuhnuh]

No need for an additional soundcard to run/monitor logic. If you want to get external audio into logic (for example, guitar vocals), a good soundcard may raise the quality of these parts of your recordings. If you are going to be working mainly within logic with soft synths and effects, I would think that the built in audio will be fine. There are many reasons that you may eventually want an additional audio card, but I would consider trying the Dual 1.8 without an additional soundcard. If you find you need one later, at least you will know what you need it for and hopefully will be able to make an informed soundcard purchase.
If you are concerned that the performance of the actual software will be affected by not having an external soundcard, don't worry unless you need high quality monitoring. The quality of the soundcard will not affect the quality of the all-software-based logic songs except as far as better monitoring will allow you to get a better mix.