Does it make sense to use an audio interface to input audio into your computer? For some users — it’s still a useful tool. Professional musicians are already familiar with the difference between an ...

A VESA standard for sound cards. Like the VBE for graphics cards (see VESA BIOS Extension), the Audio Interface (VBE/AI) provides a standard sound card interface across all platforms and environments.

Onboard audio has gotten decent over the past decade. Motherboard manufacturers have been quietly dropping better Realtek ...

Games are more than just an interactive visual experience. The time and effort that developers spend in creating and incorporating immersive audio and soundtracks are not experienced to their fullest ...

Sound cards used to be a big part of gaming machines in the 90s and 2000s but have largely gone extinct in the wake of powerful CPUs doing the sound themselves. Sound cards were expensive back then ...

The commoditised PC is the most versatile tool many of us will own, and since it has been around for a very long time it is also something that can be found for free or very cheaply if the latest ...

Affordable PCIe Audio Done Right? There was a time when dedicated sound cards were a default component in any enthusiast-grade PC build. Over the past decade, however, integrated motherboard audio has ...

Our top pick for best audio interface for Mac is Universal Audio's Apollo Twin X Quad. Photo: Universal Audio An audio interface serves as a bridge between your Mac and external audio sources like ...

The discrete sound card is dead, long live the discrete sound card! Wait, what? Here we are in the year 2026 and Creative is still pumping out discrete sound cards, the latest of which is a Sound ...

I’ve been recording my own music for a long time. And I’m on a more or less constant quest to find the best audio interface—that secret sauce that’s going to level up my home studio (okay, it’s a ...

Creative Technology has announced the Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro, a new internal PCIe sound card designed as an upgrade for desktop systems that rely on integrated motherboard audio. The card expands ...