toneranger
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Great news! ECC to the rescue, again.
The main benefit of asio drivers is lower latency operation where a good driver from the manufacturer is not available.
Any interface from Motu, Presonus, Tascam etc is likely to have its own driver with that sort of thing in mind, and/or direct monitoring, often with built in digital effects.
Latency becomes a problem when we want to record and hear ourselves back in 'real' time and don't have these options.
You have a direct monitoring knob which means you will be able to hear yourself in REAL real time, but the audio you hear is tapped directly from the hardware and doesn't go through your daw,
which means you won't be previewing or availing of any software effects or processes. (sometimes it's nice for the singer to hear a reverb, for example).
If this stuff doesn't matter to you, then it doesn't matter.
Thanks, got it re latency. It actually kind of does, because I like to hear my guitar with all the effects on through the DAW etc through my speakers. So looks like I'll have to consider a Presonus or something like that at some point.
You've (and friends here) been very helpful. Have a bunch of things I'm still puzzled about as a recording beginner:
I read the definition in the manual for the Stereo/Dual switch on this unit. Problem is, I don't really get what practical difference it makes to the actual sound of the recording if I have this Stereo/Dual on as opposed to two mono lines into the DAW? Can you explain a bit please?