Can the m-audio 410 expand

[shred440]

I just recently bought one of these, and it's my first interface. I'm kinda new to the whole computer recording deal. I bought this one because it said on the box that it had 4 inputs, but later i found you can only use 2 at a time. A friend of mine said I might be able to expand by buying another peice of equipment. I didn't see anything in the manual that said I could do that, so I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me on this matter.
Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Magarious]

Well mate ive had this audio interface for 2 years no with need a mixer, which i have now anyways. It depends what you want to use it for there is more than enough inputs an output on it. The two front ones can be used for mics and guitar and use to pug into a mixer if u need more in,s and 2 at the back that is four. The outs at the back can be used for speakers and even surrouond sound speakers. U got midi ports so u can attach a keyboard in.

For home recording this is more than enough you need if u want to expand buy a cheap mixer that has 6 channels and then pug it into you 410 that can be ur expansion if u need it.

Alex

 

[Creamyapples1]

I believe you can use up to 4 M-Audio Delta Series interfaces in one box. I'm using two Delta 410s right now and it works great, it just depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. I'm mixing with an analog mixer but I don't need many inputs all at once. So it works good for me.

 

[Cyanide-Depende]

you can daisy-chain the deltas, by the firewire 410 can not be run along side any other AI's, this is why I recently switched to the MOTU UltraLite.

-C$

 

[shred440]

Well mate ive had this audio interface for 2 years no with need a mixer, which i have now anyways. It depends what you want to use it for there is more than enough inputs an output on it. The two front ones can be used for mics and guitar and use to pug into a mixer if u need more in,s and 2 at the back that is four. The outs at the back can be used for speakers and even surrouond sound speakers. U got midi ports so u can attach a keyboard in.


For home recording this is more than enough you need if u want to expand buy a cheap mixer that has 6 channels and then pug it into you 410 that can be ur expansion if u need it.

Alex

Yeah I see what you mean. Right now it's working out great for me because I'm doing mostly guitars and vocals. But I was also considering using it to record drums later on. I would use up to 8 separate tracks for that when I recorded with our retired 16 track recorder. I could use a mixer, but I really like being able to tweak snare, kick, toms, hi-hat, etc separately.

I'm fairly happy with it right now for my own recording, though I'm still a little bummed out about it only being a 210, but oh well. Eventually I'd like to expand though, and if I can save money instead of buying a completely new, more expensive interface by expanding the one I already have then that would be a good thing.