Lexicon Core 2

With Win98SE - no problem. I have MP100 board too...In general everything is clear.

In comparison with my second card SB Live!, Core2 is 1-2 levels up. Even 16-bit recording sounds excellent on my NS-10M studio monitors. Beautiful DBX TypeIV compressors/limiters.
Cons: No balanced Ins/Outs

Not good drivers for DX applications - VXD(buffer) errors, bad latency, Cakewalk/Sonar problems...seldom stutters or dropouts, etc. In VST land - it seems to be better.

Not XP even WDM drivers??? Athlon problems??? Discontinued too soon??? What a shame!!!

For my work Core2 is good enough but I expected more from Lexicon, especially about it's support.

it's very easy to hook up and use, the manual was decent

Mackie 24 channel, Korg Karma, Crate K80XL, Fender strat, Fender P bass, sennheiser MD421, AKG C3000's, SM58's, etc. Distortion could be better. Overall, not proffessional but decent.

No reliability, every time I unplug my computer or add a non-music program to my computer, it stops working and I have to find out why each time.

electronica with my synth mostly, but I add guitar, bass and vocals. If it were stolen or lost, I would buy something different mainly because of the dependablility. I love the fact that you just turn on your computer and start making music.

it worked fairly easily, on my win 98 machine

i think it sounds good. not completely amazing, but definately usable.

lexicon, please listen. develop xp drivers and then charge me a nominal fee. i'm sure enough people own the card and win xp,and would be willing to fork over a small amount of cash to make it worth your while. and then it can go from a pr debacle to a win for your company.

The ease of use was mediocre, documentation was somewhat lacking.

Never had much of a problem with sound quality, but its obviously not high-end.

Not very reliable at all. I have had to play with switching PCI slots, uninstallation and reinstallation pains, etc...

I will never buy another Lexicon product. Their customer support is rude and unresponsive. No drivers for XP? You're kidding right? No? Source code? I guess my $$ go elsewhere from now on.

The card is very fickle about the motherboard you put it in, what other cards are in the PCI bus, and even which slot it is placed in. I've had the card for nearly a year and just got it working properly. And don't expect much help from their support department...

Once I got it working, it sounds quite good -- usually. The ADCs are on the card, not in the breakout box, so it can pick up noise from EM source inside the computer (yes, that means everything in the computer). They are also only 48kHz ADCs (not really a problem if you're only goind to audio CD format).

There is absolutely NO WAY I would rely on this thing. It's a nifty low-budget recording toy, nothing more.

As I said earlier, I've had it for a year and just got it working properly. Support helped me get sound into/out of the thing (by telling me to disable my USB bus), but it still sounded like crap. And they couldn't (or wouldn't) do much to help me.

If you need professional recording equipment that must work flawlessly every time, this card ain't for you. If you don't like spending many hours tinkering with your computer without any help, this card ain't for you either. If you just want a decent recording card, you don't have much money to spend, you never plan to upgrade your operating system (they discontinued this card, ya know), and you've got some pretty badass hardware, buy this card.

Once you go through the effort to set this card up right, and make sure the IRQs aren't sharing with anything else, the only thing restricting ease of use is the high PCI latency. That and you have to reboot and remove the Core2 in order to switch DBX "compression".

I don't have the MP100 daughtercard but the sound quality is vastly superior to MOTU and SBLive IMO. Even MP3s sound very nice and detailed, yet musical detail.

It's reliable once setup, but it can make a computer crash more often than if he card isn't in there.

Absolute shit. They couldn't care who they are ruipping off. I think the Core2 owners should sue Lexicon either for purchase price refunded or for 2K / XP drivers. They ripped-us off at a time when all oterh comanies have drivers for the 2K / XP Oss. They won't release the source code and yet they won't tell us who the driver developers are either.

Lexicon really fucked us on that one. They played-up the ADAT compatability and sound quality, while abusing their customers with very tricky-to-install drivers and no upgrades. Lexicon claims that on one hand, the card's been discontinued for 2 years, but 2.13 drivers are coming out to enable Wave Pipe accelleration in Cakewalk.

Just from the standpoint of Lexicon's shitty, slow, expensive, hypocritical support ~ I'll file my share of a lawsuit if anyone else wants to get the ball rolling. They fucked us and they ought to pay.

always worked flawlessly with win 98

super quiet

here's the big problem. lexicon is going to leave thousands of customers out to dry, because they are not going to update the drivers for win 2000 or win xp.since almost all computers come with xp these days, this is no way to run product support.my card is garbage with my new computer now

great card. too bad i have to throw it away