If you're not going to record microphones, all you
need is an audio interface.
Maybe the Soundblaster is good enough, however it's
not ideal for making music and you will get bad
latency with the Live, the Live not having ASIO
drivers. This latency will delay the realtime
monitoring of your recording.
The quality of the recording depends on the quality of
the AD convertors on your soundcard. If these
convertors are located outside the PC they will pick
up less noise from the PC components.
If you want to record microphones you'll need an audio
interface with preamps. Good ones are expensive.
If you want to use soft synths you'll need good
latency - any audio interfcae with ASIO driver will
do.
I wouldn't recommend USB, PCI and Firewire having a
much greater bandwidth.
Jojo
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