reverbdk
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So I made the first serious financial investment into my studio setup with a new Antelope Zen Studio interface. I look forward to sharing about it here everytime I can.
Antelope Audio Zen Studio | Sweetwater.com
So far I have set it up in my rack and recorded two tracks at most. Some things to note with starting fresh:
0) For a portable recording option, this thing is a perfect beast. All I need now is my rack and my little laptop. It's uber quiet on the preamps and works seemlessly once you get the firmware updates.
1) The proprietary rackmount is recommended if not necessary. It's way overpriced and takes up twice the rackspace, but the interface has NO areas to screw in anything underneath, so you could not screw it into a universal rackmount kit. I'm sure you could get creative and jerryrig something, but the proprietary mount holds the interface super solid...almost worth 75$
2) I currently having it track through a dinky Lenovo laptop with 4gb ram, 1.5ghz processor i3, and so far have not had serious issue. USB 2.0 seems to be alright, but like I said I have only tracked 2 things at once so far. No real latency issue running at 24bit 44.1khz in Reaper.
I'm super pumped and will keep you all updated. Thanks for the help and advice over the years.
Antelope Audio Zen Studio | Sweetwater.com
So far I have set it up in my rack and recorded two tracks at most. Some things to note with starting fresh:
0) For a portable recording option, this thing is a perfect beast. All I need now is my rack and my little laptop. It's uber quiet on the preamps and works seemlessly once you get the firmware updates.
1) The proprietary rackmount is recommended if not necessary. It's way overpriced and takes up twice the rackspace, but the interface has NO areas to screw in anything underneath, so you could not screw it into a universal rackmount kit. I'm sure you could get creative and jerryrig something, but the proprietary mount holds the interface super solid...almost worth 75$
2) I currently having it track through a dinky Lenovo laptop with 4gb ram, 1.5ghz processor i3, and so far have not had serious issue. USB 2.0 seems to be alright, but like I said I have only tracked 2 things at once so far. No real latency issue running at 24bit 44.1khz in Reaper.
I'm super pumped and will keep you all updated. Thanks for the help and advice over the years.