Well, if you guys had Yamaha keyboards or synths you wouldn't need a sound card at all. You can connect the synth via a com port and the sequencer talks to the Yamaha driver directly. So I have Cakewalk and PowerTracks and a bunch of other stuff on my laptop and make all the noises on my PSR740 where I have over 700 instruments, 4 DSPs, up to 102 effects per DSP and up to 16 parameters per effect. Enough there to keep me busy for years.

Bryan