by gastric » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:08 pm
To the person who asked about the "sound card" effecting overall performance. YES - it has a huge impact on performance of these types of intensive applications. I'm no expert but it's probably more of the driver than the actual hardware, at least that's my guess. Any product with a native ASIO driver should work great. I had horrible luck using ASIO4ALL on a built-in laptop sound card. I've read there's a specific ASIO driver for older Sound Blaster Live! cards that supposedly is excellent, but it's limited to specific older cards. If you're on the cheap look into used PCI-based M-Audio cards like the 2498 or 192. Excellent performance and awesome drivers. But no native headphone support.
What you will find is each VSTi has it's pros and cons. BFD2 does rule the roost with it's built-in mapping and trigger tweaking capabilities.