Last night I found out by accident that you can download special freeware drivers that turn a mega cheapo soundblaster live card into a top of the range pro audio card.

That's right!

And to give you a couple of figures... in my case I've brought the latency on Cubase VSTi live triggering down from 204 miliseconds to (wait for it!) 11 (yes- Eleven!!!) milisecounds!!!

That my friends is in the same league as the Echo cards and the M Audio cards (Delta 44, 66 etc)! Infact, with a push and the wind at my back I've even had the latency down to 5 ms (which is even faster than all of the major pro audio cards on the market!).

I only wish I had known about this before I forked out for a pro audio card last year.

And I hate to focus on the negative, but I can't BELIEVE that nobody in this entire forum seems to have picked up on this!