Greg, remember when I said earlier you need some basic education in digital audio? I suggested you go to Mac's website and start reading. Have you done that yet? If not, do so. I'm certainly not geting on you here because you just don't know and there's nothing wrong with that. I didn't know much about this stuff 10 years ago either.

Don't pay any attention to and don't refer to what that Dell tech is telling you. HE HAS NO CLUE.

This is the current EMU stuff: http://www.sweetwater.com/c703--E-MU--PCI_Audio_Interfaces

Note these new EMU's use the PCIe slot.

Here's Sweetwaters complete list of EXTERNAL interfaces. That Dell tech said what? To be fair he may be referring to a "Soundcard" in the old fashioned sense. Soundcard used to mean it has it's own built in synth to provide sound but they don't do that any more. This is why the term soundcard is not used any more. The proper term is "audio/midi interface".

http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USB_Audio_Interfaces

Check out the first one on the list, the PreSonus AudioBox. Don't you think the mic inputs and other stuff is a heckuva lot better than that pos chip in your Dell?

I'm not recommending Sweetwater or anything, just using them as an example. I've heard they're a good company though.

This is a comment to the rest of the forum because we all had a big discussion about this recently. See what happens when we don't use the correct terminology? Things change, we have to go with it.

Bob

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