Lexicon Core 2

This card was a pain to get working at first. I had problem getting it configured right. I orginally had it on a Shuttle motherboad and I had problems with noise. I think it was the VIA chips on that board. I am now using it with an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe mother board (Intel support chips)and P4 2.4 Ghz processor. Works great this way if you are willing to use only windows 98SE.

It sounds great to me.

Don't know about this. It's never broken.

I'd never buy anything from Lexicon again. I find it hard to believe they can survive as a company and screw the customer base. I am not a software designer and don't know how hard it would be to write new drivers for Windows XP or 2000, but it seems like the smart thing to do, would be to make the customers you already have, happy.

Great card, terrible company! I'll give Lexicon a zero.

Hi, Pimpster here giving an update on the now legendarily crap supported Lexicon Core 2 sound card. I thought I would offer my suggetion on how I got my card to finally work with a pentium 4 PC running windows 98SE. Many people have had probelms with this setup.

You must only use windows 98 or 98SE

I use an AGP graphics card which can be bought cheap from ebay

I disabled the USB ports momenterily in the systems dialog box while using the card.

The card now runs perfectly with no glitches or erratic playback. It's working fine with Cubase SX which is what I use the card with, even though Steinberg claim you can only run SX with the latest versions of windows, this is not all true.

I hope this helps anyone who feel they have been let down by such a supposedly reputable company. Lexicon we bow down to you!!

Pimpster

Getting a good souns out of this is depending on what sort of system you run it on. I had it working great with a PIII, WIN98SE with a display card on the pci buss and it worked fine, even though lexicon reccommend using a AGP chipset.. Now i've got a P4 with an agp display card and it's crap!!!. If you do get it working it's easy as pie to use.

the sound quality is amazing. It has the same ad-da converters as found on the highly priced M-audio 1010 (#400), so go figure. What would you do considering the price?

It sucks hard boiled eggs when not working. There's only one way to know. Nuy the product and test it yourself. If you don't like "try" and resell it...if you can!

The customer support did get back to me from the u.s. site. the uk site weren't that helpful. The uk lexi people were quite abrupt with their support. The u.s. people helped me by reccommending hardware for the cpmputer and the best way to configure. which still didn't work, but at least they tried.

I like the card when it works. When it doesn't it's crap (and most of the time it doesn't.) All it takes is for lexicon to employ a freelance programmer to update the drivers and that would be it. Everyone happy, and lexicon get to keep their high reputations they've had for so long. They've got to realise that, okay, they are good at the fx end of the spectrum, but, nowadays people are moving more and more to hard-disk recording, and they could do themselves a favour by updating the drivers for these cards (core 2 & 32) and they will be praised not just by normal people, Bbut, I should think from proffesionals alike who will use their products for hard-disk recordibg. Come on lexicon think what you're missing out on...look at m-audio and how good they are doind. Not to mention digidesign, motu etc, etc. Get on the bandwagon before it's too late and everythings gone software and you're still trying to flog the good old fx lexicon used to be kbnown for!!!

About the use is easy and if you were enough smart to know that the original drivers doesnt work, bingo. I like the card, but is a shit that you have hardware jumpers, and i need sometimes to reinstall the drivers to have no problems with cracks. And some programs like Windows media dont work with the card

The only good thing i found in this card

Really no, i dont feel that is a profesional sound card, and Lexicon showed in their answers that this was a kind of "mistake" from the company

With the support answer i think is enough to see how piss off i feel...
"Well, you can stay with the old OS and use the Lexicon card or upgrade
your OS and get new hardware. There hasn't been anymore development on
the card since it was discontinued a couple years ago. Thank You

John Lexicon Professional Technical Support"

4 in and 8 outs without a headphones jack, without MIDI and with some many troubles. No help from the support, and so less software with the card makes me think that this card is really not profesional and taht was a mistake to buy it. I have it since 2 years and i am tired about, cause no way to upgrade my OS. if I would live in the UK i would use the box, where says win 95, 95 or later, to start some legal action

I used this card on PII system: no problems
I changed to Via Chipset: crackles

a lot of talk to customer support, it was no use

sound quality was superb. DBX compression is great.

only on PII and PIII intel chipsets is it rock steady.
Anything else, amd, via, is not working

the most crappy customer support ever. The tech people on the phone were okay, but discontinuing a card like this is really crap. Interesting fact: I signed a non disclosure with Lexicon, but what the heck, let them sue me if they dare: I got a refund from Lexicon one year ago. I send them my card, and they sent me a lexicon mpx500 reverb unit as a compensation. So, if a lawsuit against me is started, I need you guys to back me up on this. But I just thought you had a right to know. So, how should I rate this support? It still is crap they do not support their own inventions. Let's say a 9 for how they hanlded my case and a 1 for not updating drivers.

well....I just bought one back (second hand) for 75$ to use it on a second, on a second, portable, system with a bx chipset and win 98 and cubase 5.1.... sound quality is okay, and it makes a cheap highend recorder. It will be a audio-only PC. That's what this card can do. But don't expect more guys (and girls).

I actually had to go out and buy an older PII computer to make it work. It was, as far as I'm concerned, completely incompatible with my HP pavilion.

Once I got it working, it was great. Virtually noise free, and the mp100 daughter board provides excellent quality reverb. Use of the reverb, however, is likely to result in a system crash (Windows 98 SE). Still, I've got to give it a 10 based on the sound quality alone.

I would use it to record a gig without backup--now that is. It took me several months of tweaking windows before it became stable. I'll give it a 5 due to the difficulty in making it a stable system.

Support for this product was poor, before it was a "legacy" device. Now support is non-existent, and I have not been able to find a way anywhere to make it work with windows XP, which I have been forced to switch over to due to some software that I need to run.

This board is tough to rate. Some problems that should be mentioned are: It's only a 4 track recorder, unless you buy an 8 track ADAT converter. It's no longer supported, so forget about windows XP. The optional mp100 daughter board seems to cause system crashes occasionally.

On the positive side, once you get it working, it is virtually noise free, and the reverb unit is awesome. If anyone knows how to make it work with XP, I'd love to hear about it.

WISH I KNEW , IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE CORE2 V2 12 EXE BUT TO NO AVAIL...IM HOPING SOMEONE WILL EMAIL ME THE EXE AS A ZIP....ALSO IM RUNNING 98...ITS QUITE A STABLE PLATFORM TO ME...AND IS COMPATIBLE WITH MOST MUSIC APPLICATIONS....EMAIL ZELBASS@AOL.COM... MAYBE IVE GOT SOMETHING TOULL NEED AS WELL.....IM LOADED.....

WITHOUT V2 12 EXE ILL NEVER KNOW.....HOPING SOMEONE WHO HAS THERE CORE IN A CORNER COLLECTING WEBS WILL EMAIL THE EXE...SETUP FOR PC WINDOWS 98...THANKS A BUNCH AND FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR ANY EXE.S OR DATA YOU MAY NEED...

HELP I WANT TO HEAR THE CORE...........BAD TO THE BONE WITHOUT A CORE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,HHHHEEELLLLPPPP SOMEONE HEAR MY PLEAS..

THE REVIEWS SAYS IT ALL.......NOTTA SUPPORT ...I MEAN AT LEAST IF THERES NO NEW UPGRADES FOR OTHER OP SYSTEMS AT LEAST LEAVE A DOWNLOAD FOR US WIN 98 LOVERS......

IM A ALL AROUND HARDWARE SOFTWARE MIDI, AUDIO TYPE OF GUY AND WHAT I DISLIKE MOST IS BEING FORCED TO UPGRADE TO UNPROVEN AND TESTED PLATFORMS, SPENDING GLOBS OF MONEY AND BEING LEFT IN THE COLD WHEN SUPPORT ISSUES ARISE....LEXICON HAS BEEN GIVEN A CHANCE AND FAILED...EVEN OLD AKAI STILL HAS SUPPORT SITES.....HELP ME...IVE BEEN CONNED IN A LEX

No problems with the card... Win98 is another issue. The sound is excellent - not that it comes thru on MP3 but listen to some of the productions on Rude On The Rhines MP3 site http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/467/rude_on_the_rhine.html

Clean as clean can be - I have no problems with the sound of this old card

The card is solid... mind you I have a machine dedicated to the Core2, Cakewalk and CoolEdit - nothing else. But why have anything else the machine is a PII 350Mhz with 400M RAM... I've layered up to 52 tracks... oh there are some sub-mixes but geeeezzzzzzz. This thing is Brillant

Have not had the pleasure. However, I've read some gripes re Lexicon not supporting the card anymore. The way I see it Lexicon is a business... why would they support products FOR EVER... welcome to the disposal computer age. As for me the Lexicon returned on my investment on it years ago.

Prog Rock and Jazz Fusion - the card is great. It just works and works and works and works.

Keep your system clean kids and learn how to use regedit and msconfig (course that's outdated now)

Setup for us was a breeze, but of course we had to compromise our setup by using Win 98, and we had to disable the USB driver that was sharing IRQ 5 with the card. If you have trouble with the card working erratically or crashing, make sure it's not sharing an IRQ! And also, this card _WILL_ WORK ON ATHLON SYSTEMS! As much as Lexicon says that it won't, it will work just fine if you are not using a VIA chipset. I use a Duron 750 with an ECS mainboard (SiS chipset)

Sound quality is very good, although since this card is a good 6 years old already, there are better interfaces out there. We also have a Tascam US-428, and I find the converters on it to be a little better - but I still am satisfied with the Lexicon.

We use the piece for a webcast, where stability is extremely important. So far, we've done 3 two-hour radio shows using it, and it's been solid. Then again, the ONLY things on that system are Win98 (modded with 98lite), Winamp, Shoutcast DSP, and Sound Forge. Keep it simple if you need the stability... And don't breathe too heavily, or Win98 might crash :)

Overall, Harman International is usually OK when it comes to product support... But I know that everyone else who has requested support or drivers for newer OSes has been told "buy another card". That's pathetic, as this is a pro audio interface, and not a $20 sound card.

Overall, this thing is great if you're willing to bend over for Lexicon and run Win98. If you're not running 98, you might as well forget about it, cause it's a total vegetable otherwise. I love the card because we got it for free from a friend who couldn't get it to work... If you can score one for under $100, it's worth it.

Ease of use with this thing is like a crapshoot. You gotta just hope you get lucky, because troubleshooting this thing is a nightmare, and you are pretty much on your own because the manual stinks.

If you get this thing to work, I mean really work for you i.e. no clicks or stammers, it sounds really awesome! I really like having the dBx limiting on the A/D inputs, as it prevents digital nastiness while recording, and it is really very transparent.

This thing literally worked for me without issues once, for about a year, on a P3 PC that I had, and it was awesome! Then I upgraded my computer so that I could get more processing power (P4, new motherboard, still Win98SE cuz no support for XP), and everything went to hell! Now it won't work correctly on the new system, and I can't even get it to work at all on my old system. What a bummer!

There is one woman at this company who really knows her stuff, and she's excellent at troubleshooting! Trouble is, she's not in the first line of support people (who don't know squat), and it's pretty obvious that the company is trying to forget they ever made this product, so usually you just get the cold shoulder.

Loved the card, and I lament the day I decided to mess with the system that it was working on. I will never again buy a product that a company has decided to stop supporting. Very frustrating!