Hey Xcen The best (for the price) RME card you can get is Hammerfall LE (Digi 9636) list price EUR 368,- but remember that its an "only digital card" and need a Analog/Digital converter (stereo A/D/A or ADAT). Alternative RME makes some A/D and D/A card to use with Hammerfall: AEB 4/I four 24 Bit analog Inputs for all RME cards EUR 139,- AEB 4/O eight 24 Bit analog Outputs for all RME cards EUR 159,- AEB 8/I eight 24 Bit analog Inputs for all RME cards EUR 189,- AEB 8/O eight 24 Bit analog Outputs for all RME cards EUR 199,- Check out the RME homepage www.rme-audio.de BTW about using soundblaster card for audio: It is no good unles you use 48KHz samplerate. The card is intern lock to 48KHz, and if you try to use 44.1KHz your recording will get out off sync. The card will convert to and from 48KHz and use some time on it that the DAW software does not know. See you Kent