Tascam US144

[andydeedpoll]

hullo

just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this USB 2 sound card? going to university soon to study popular music and recording, and thought it might be useful to have a more portable setup than this big sodding desktop, so a laptop is going to be purchased and a sound card will be bought! haha. i liked how i could use my TC M200 delay/reverb with a SPDIF cable to add another two inputs - something i'm used to doing with the Delta 66 i have in my desktop.

it comes bundled with cubase LE, and i've always intended to use a laptop simply as a useful way of 'recording on the go', as well as other uni stuff (apparently, they might want me to type 'essays'?!?! ) so it'd fit both worlds usefully - when it came to accurate mixing/editing, i'd move everything onto my (probably more powerful) desktop. real mouse and everything, haha.

i'd also want to use it for live performance with a midi keyboard and a sequencer program (most like the Cubase LE that comes packaged with it) - anyone got any thoughts on this? i THINK i've seen people use it effectively in this situation before, but i was on the other side of a smoky room, and i've only seen pictures of the US144, so i might be mistaken.

any thoughts?

cheers,

Andrew.

[andydeedpoll]

i'd just like to add similar questions about the EMU 0404 ... latency good enough to play with a laptop live?

i thought using a CME UF5 through the usb input may help any potential latency issues, rather than trying to run everything off the same USB port (that might be bollocks )

i'm quite new to all this USB stuff, if you can't tell, haha!

ta!

Andrew.

[andydeedpoll]

sorry to keep bumping this up and adding more and more stuff to it but i've just discovered the Eidrol UA-101 too... argh! anyone had any experience with this in a similar function

ta!

Andrew