Needing New Souncard? Emagics 2/6 A Good Option? Options

[SpenceMckay]

How does it comapre to a PCI card? Logic dropped thw Audiowerks, which I have and came out with the 2/6, was it to replace theaudiowerks?

[jockreby2000]

Apparently eMagic is "in the process" of creating drivers for the Audiowerk cards, i.e. for OS X. They've been saying this for a year or whatever now, so don't hold your breath...

The good thing about the 2|6 would be that it is less hassle to transport between computers than a PCI card.

[BusError]

Heh, it took me 2 weeks -part time- to write a PCI card driver for a sound card for OSX.
I think the level of their people is rather hard to beleive!

[Synthetic]

Apparently eMagic is "in the process" of creating drivers for the Audiowerk cards, i.e. for OS X. They've been saying this for a year or whatever now, so don't hold your breath...

The good thing about the 2|6 would be that it is less hassle to transport between computers than a PCI card.

plus you can use it for a laptop I am about to get one for my tibook to use with Logic for live performances and may provide some recording services to bands at local pubs, giving them a cd of their live performance in less than 20 minutes after their set

[filarion]

Sorry to jump in on this one, but two friends of mine use the emi 2|6 and aren't too happy with it (using PC notebooks, might not apply for macs) - anyways, asio dropouts and other issues are plaguing them - it's pretty affordable, but to me that's about it. USB audio may have matured, but I wouldn't trust it for use on the road - RME HDSP Multiface + Cardbus combo is the way to go