All user reviews of 3/5 for the ESI ESP1010

This card (I 2) has 8 inputs / 8 analog outputs 2 XLR inputs with 48v power supply, 2 I / O and S-PDIF I / O Midi, also with two headphone outputs.
This is perfect for my home studio to catch its small groups or solo musicians who want to make their album CD.
Config: ASUSTeK CM P4PE with a P4 2.4GHz, P5B Deluxe with Dual 2.4GHz, P5Q with Quad 2.6GHz, 3GB of Ram, while Fanless.
Instruments: Keyboard, guitar, microphone and APEX435 Seinnheiser E935
Prodipe monitoring headphones, monitor speakers Prodipe 8

UTILIZATION

Yes, we must however get the driver updated on the site IPE Music is the distributor in France, or EGO System Inc., for this to work.
Namely, the driver is not signed by Microsoft.
Incompatibility: Well it is the purpose of the OPDs of the notice!
With the P4PE motherboard and P4, no problem, everything is as it announced the sound is pure and without breath, the driver is stable, around 3ms latency, the XLR pramplis are perfect.
But with the P5B Deluxe + DualCore and QuadCore + P5Q with the PCI card and heating normment Drivers are impossible Settings, no synchronization possible, and loss of buffers Fawn random image. In short, the card is unusable after just 30 minutes prs is the time it takes for it to become scorching hot.
From the sound starts cracking Fawn trs important, then 2 minutes APRS, it disparate, and it only remains that stain the PC and wait for the PCI card cooling.
I contact my dealer that I rpond hsiter without the problem that ESI is known, and these types of cards work on some configs and not others!
I said he wants to sell me a new card and I contacted the hotline, to me the same thing !!!!! rpond
The configuration is good, but the manual gives no indication of the types of problem configurations may very meeting, of course!
So I put 1 / 10 for non COMPATIBILITY depending on the config.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are unsigned, and stability of dpend config, even if their day is set regularly.
I use Cubase SX3 and Cubase4 several Plugin EastWest, Roland etc ....
The latency is 3ms while the card works, otherwise I do not know, I adapt to the ractions between 11ms and 120ms days (taking a single microphone with 120ms delay is sport!)
When she walks, with 40 tracks and effects plugins carefree when it does not work, an audio track without any monitoring or effect plug, sometimes even cost a CD for a quarter of an hour then boom-boom with WMP!
So I put 1 / 10

OVERALL OPINION

3 years, the sound is pure trs with good momentum, no audible distortion, 2 headphone outputs (useful for back vocals)
The +: 2 XLR pramplifies good bill (if I use Pramplis JOEMEEK), 8 line inputs correct, the South, the S-PDIF, panel CONTRL, connections MME / ASIO
The possibility to connect multiple cards together ...
The -: The cable inter PCI / Rack rigid standard and trs (25-pin Din)
No rglage on the rack 19 '
The non-compatibility based on the config
Before buying it, I had Sound Blaster, 1024, and other Audigy LS, Audigy 4PRO, I test the FA10 Roland, ESI Julia @, and none satisfied me in terms of conviviality and quality of sound.
When she walks qualitprix the report is excellent, but it implies to stay on a PC with a P4, when it does not work is money lost!
Well, No, I saw that this card has two replaceable same type of ESI, but the I think I've given dj I'll look at a card-type external USB to replace it. (May be an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R)
I put 5 / 10 for all performances, good map if you do not evolve their IT hardware.