Looking for a sound card suggestion

[djklas]

my old PC died on my a few months back and I finally got a new one.

I had been using an Event "Layla" 20 bit sound card and breakout box that I've had for probably 10 years or so...

My new machine is running vista. When I tried to install the sound card last night I went to the Event website and found out that they don't have a driver update to Vista for this product, probably because it's so old that no one is using it anymore....

This was an 8 in 8 out box but I don't really need all that. Just 2 in and 2 out to record mixes and do edits.

I use Sound Forge but i'm now thinking of buying a bundle with a sound card/breakout and Pro Tools.... I see they have a M Audio box and Pro Tools 7.0 for around $250.

Any suggestion on what I should look for????

Any help is much appreciated... like I said it's been about 10 yrs since I've been in the market for something like this.

[Twilight Being]

I've known nothing but MOTU since Mackie sold out to China.

[djklas]

Does MOTU have an inexpensive sound card/breakout that would suit my needs?

[Twilight Being]

MOTU is all about audio interfaces. A step above any sound card you plug into a PC IMHO.

[dag]

some friends and i did a big recording session over a motu ultralite tonite, but it is not necessary to use such a beast. we simply had a lot of instruments to track simultaneously

presonus, edirol, etc offer very usable 2 channel i/o external usb and firewire units. Spend around 200 and you are good to go.