Hi Spalding

Your SoundBlaster card will be fine to get you started (Remember you are only trialling at the moment to see if it suits you) if it doesn’t have its own ASIO drivers then ASIO4all will work fine with it.

When you find you cannot live without VSTs then you can move onto a better sound card (The one mentioned is an excellent entry level model) which will then really show what VSTs can do.

Bill