sound cards, ram and FL

I'm quickly becoming not bad at handing FL's music capacities but i'm a bit retarded when it comes to more basic pc stuff. When I've used Cubase before it was already set up on a computer able to run it at good performance levels.

I've been aware I need to get a proper sound card and expand my RAM.

But what sound card? At the moment there's a basic NEC audio so I can work with perhaps 6 tracks plus 1 Sytrus track...after that it's crackle/stutter.

What's the best sound card. I reckoned on getting a Sony Audigy SE but will it be enough? What if I wanted to run, at any given moment in the playlist run of patterns, say, 12 tracks, 6 sytrus tracks, and let's say there's 2 arpeggiations on the go and any given number of delay and chorus.

Will Sound Blaster do the trick?

Anybody? Anything? It's time to buy myself an xmas present..just not sure which.

And what RAM should I be running, optimally?

Creative Audigys are good (not sure about the S...

ah good to know. I've got spare 5 gb on my pc s...

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cheers Scott...veery useful info... incidental...

How much real ram do you have now? allocating ...

yeah that was what i was doing...cheating it ap...

bamboom wrote:cheers Scott...veery useful info....

come to think of it...soundclick do recode for ...