I am using VanBasco as my player,with Midiyoke..My host program is Forte[Brainspawn], and my wavetable[soft synth] is Hyper Canvas..Asio4all is my driver.

All this works well with my Conexant sound card[came with the Compaq 2570US laptop].

I also have my PCMCIA sound card, Digigram VXpocket[a high quality card], but so far , I have not needed it with this laptop..
I use VXpocket with my "old" CTX laptop..