Swapping Edirol DA-2496 for E-MU 1820M

[urobolus.com]

Hi there, as the title states, I'm thinking about swapping my DA-2496 for a 1820M. This is only a temp. switch until I can afford to get a RME HDSP9652, AD converter, and a stereo mic pre because what I'm trying to do is switch back to XP x64 and compare Reaper and Sonar, and setup my DAW, in a 64-bit enviornment. Unfortunately, Roland won't ever make a 64-bit driver for the DA-2496.

I can probably get as much for the DA-2496 as it'd cost to get a 1820M ($200-$350) and the 1820M has TFPro pre's in it, so that is a plus. That is honestly about the only good things I've heard about the 1820M is its sound and latency. Just seeing if anyone has any other suggestions for a good temporary fix that would give me give performance, sound, and I could break even (or maybe pocket some money) on?

Thanks again for the help!

 

[heroics321]

The 1820M is really a solid piece. A lot of people don't like it because it's manufactured by Creative, but you're not going to find much better converters until you get up into the $1000+ range. You can utilize about any monitoring configuration that you can think of, put latency-free reverb and compression on a vocalist's headphone cue, and with the syncing options of both the 1820M and RME, you'll have even more solid ins and outs once you upgrade. The Patchmix control pannel is a bit difficult to wrap your head around at first, but it's pretty intuitive. I haven't tried to pres, but they're supposed to be pretty clean. That's my rant, anyway, there's probably a bunch of people that will disagree.

 

[pipelineaudio]

JBM at the reaper forum and a few others are running the 1820 IIRC. Seems to really work well, which like heroic mentions, surprises the hell out of me!