Behringer U-Control UCA202 and UCA222 I/F

[jagd1]

I'm not sure where to put this question so being "green" exscuse me if I put it here.

Has anyone had experience using either of these interfaces and if so does any one know if you can have multiple interfaces on the same PC utilising two different USB 2.0 ports.

I.E. can you use 2 x UCA202's or 2 x UCA222's or 1 x UCA202 and 1 x UCA222 on the same PC.

Any thoughts or difficulties spring to mind if you attatch them to a USB 2.0 "powered" (it's own PSU) USB hub leading to a single USB 2.0 i/f on a single machine.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Jagd1

[johnnymegabyte]

read in the last month on one of the guitar forums (or maybe this site) someone using TWO UCA202 and it showed up as two USB Audio inputs, thus allowing recording two stereo or 4 mono tracks at once. But that was his word, and I have never read this before.
If you can buy some and return, give it a try an report

Ironically, I picked up a Behringer UFO202 this afternoon, which is the same as the UCA202, but has a built-in phono pre-amp and a Line / Phono switch and ground.
I have only tried the headphone out, and it blows out of the water the headphone out of my Sony Viao laptop running Vista.
Tomorrow I am going to try record via Line In (16/48) using my Pentium 4 desktop Xp Pro sp2. Then try connecting at same time as my Zoom G7 with USB I/O.
What will happen ? One or the other or both ... we'll see.

[jagd1]

Thanks for that.

That would seem the logical outcome if two units can coexist. Theoretically then I presume you can have up to 4 x M-Audio 10/10LT's on the same PCI bus in the same machine so hooking up multiple cards to multiple UCA-222 interfaces would give you 4x8 Channels out (i.e. 32) and one presumes 4x2 Stereo Channels or 8 Mono Channels in, enough for a large mixing desk.

That would reason a pretty buff PC to process all the in's and out's even using the desk to do part of the mix plus a reasonably high end bit of Cubase, Ableton etc etc to achieve the desired result. Food for thought and experimentation.

[johnnymegabyte]

And a Behringer USB interface is quite cheap at $30 to $40 each.

[jagd1]

Following the lead of another contributer to the forum I am contemplating building a machine based on an AMD processor, at least 8GB Ram and using Windows XP x64. I want to have the option of an external mixing desk (analog) but also using the UCA222's with a pair of M-Audio Delta 10/10LT's for Digital and Virtual Desks.

Are there any pitfalls firstly with the UCA222's and/or a pair of the M-Audio Deltas or in fact any other pitfalls in the spec so far. I'm hoping to add an external Drums unit, an external controller/keyboard, some older MIDI rack synths and a couple of stand alone keyboards. I'd like to keep all the options open.

Thanks

Jagd1

[levi7westfall]

hey guys this all has helped me alot
ive really been interested in this interface and it would do me a great deal of help seeing that my soundcard is good for the garbage but would this equip work with a usb 1.1
my studio computer is a dell optiplex with windows XP pro
its a great comp however the usbs arent up to date
so im just wanting to see if this will work with a 1.1 usb

[johnnymegabyte]

Behringer UFO-202 specs goes for $29 US

PC......................................
Intel or AMD CPU, 400 MHz or higher
Minimum 128 MB RAM
USB 1.1 interface
Windows XP, 2000 or higher

It works with Vista Home Premium (my laptop)

PDF Brochure with Specs and Pictures ---> http://www.behringer.com/EN/download...WeBrochure.pdf