which soundcard would be best

M-Audio Delta 1010LT PCI Digital Audio System
Isis Maxi Studio ISIS™ XL
i was looking for a new soundcard with 8 ins and came across these two the isis is supposed to be on sale for 99.00 sounds like a great deal but the ratings users gave it made me second guess and then i saw the m-audio delta cost more but got better ratings and i'm not really trying to spend much more than 300.00 what do u guys think

I dont know about the sound card your looking at.however I just bought m audio delta 44 card for my pc and it sounds great.it was $240.a friend of mine has the 8 outs on his mpc and i think he runs his 8 outs into a makie board and into the sound card this card has 4 outs 4 ins and his mixdowns are dope.
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thnx for the info i'm trying to find out now if the 4 ins would be enough i was planning on recording directly from the mp to samplitude and do my mixing on the pc and record the final mix to dat or cd. so would it be best to get a card with eight ins or four ins. i do alot of dropping sounds out and bringing sounds in live so i'm thinking it would be best to be able to record as many tracks live as possible. with this format would it matter how many outs the card has

im not shure but ill ask around im shure someone i know knows.ill hit you up with a reply soon.
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The ISIS is terrible - go for the Delta

good lookin on the help i went and got the m audio and ran into a bit of a problem. my old way of recording to pc was to record each track individually for the length of the song verse/chorus/verse/chorus etc.. you know.ok know i got this sound card and i thought that i could basically do the samething but i would be recording 8 tracks at once for the length of the song but my sequencing program(s) samplitude&cakewalk both drop out like crazy while recording and playing back. my people tell me i should just record all 8 tracks at once but only record 4/4 and loop the rest of the verse and then record the chorus patch it in at the end of each verse and do the same, which to me sounds confusing so i figured i'd check in with you guys and see if any one else uses this format and if so was it necessary for me to get a card with so many inputs? could i not have used a card with less inputs i still have time to return the soundcard and i was looking at the echo mia 24/96 it has great ratings and i'm guessing that if i have to loop each track i could live with recording 2 tracks at a time and save $100. all help is appreciated i only got three more days on this refundor exchange so time is of the essence. one "they call me B.k. Barakus ,play tuff get slapped backwards"

Your soundcard is not the problem. You should be able to record all tracks, in full duplex. There's a few reasons it could go wrong:

1. Multitracking eats lots of memory, so make sure you got lots of RAM (512mb should do it)
You can check how much RAM and processor-power your recording occupies in Cubase (in Cubase SX, press F12)
2. Make sure your harddisk can keep up with recording 8 channels of audio. Older, or defragmented harddrives will have a hard time keeping up. A separate harddrive just for audio would be ideal.

Download and run dskbench to check how many tracks your system can handle. http://www.sesa.es/us/dskbench/dskbench.htm