Originally Posted By: Saxfish
Hi Someone,
I`m a working Musician and use my BIAB in a Laptop.
I understand laptop sound-cards aren`t that great. Is there something like an external Sound Card or Midi module that will improve sound quality furthermore?

Much appreciated,

Mike Cortina


OK... so going back to the original post...

Working musician on a lappy using BB. Heard that factory cards are generally lacking and seeks better quality sound from BB.

BB on a laptop runs perfectly fine on the factory sound card and latency has NEVER been an issue in my laptop under this scenario. I can truthfully state that I have never had latency in my stock, off the shelf DELL lappy with BB using the factory card.

The sounds of the instruments you hear are a result of the soft synth your BB loads as it's default synth. Mine just happens to be TTS-1. I believe you can easily make other synths the default. BB will use real tracks when the style dictates and they are available. Real tracks are sampled and the sound quality generally doesn't get better than sampled.

So, for live use, I believe a stock lappy and factory card would work just fine in this situation.

An aftermarket interface opens the doors to other options. The sound quality will be fairly close to what it was with the factory card if you use the same default synth and midi based styles.

It's only when one is using a DAW such as Sonar where latency between synth tracks and live recorded audio becomes an issue which requires a better interface to handle the load in real time.

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