The problem of Phase 22 is that you can't hear what you are playing at the same time as you hear the rest of the the tracks that you have recorded before. The only way to do this is connecting the "monitoring button" that appears on recording programs (like cubase), but when I do that, I have always a little latency that riuns my recordings. So, I think is worth spending something more in a sound card with direct monitoring, but I don't know much about sound cards, so I can't advise you very much...