USB Audio Devices

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Shaky Tee

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(originally posted to the Cave...)

Do they groove or do they suck?
 
I'll continue this in the correct forum, i.e. here.

I'd get a PCI card unless I was recording to a laptop. USB transfer rates limits you to about 2 I/O at 16bit/48kHz (or thereabout). Why are you asking this in the cave?

/Ola
 
That tascam box your looking at boasts 4 channels in @ 24/44.1... and 2 channels out, all at once.

I havent tried it, though, so Ola could be on to something..

and the MIDI-fader thing... Ive heard its really hard to set up right.. and I cant do it at all on any of my stuff.. except for soundscape's mixtreme software... so I wouldn't count on that unless your using cakewalk or something that Ive never tried.

Oh, and the roland box is weak.

xoxo
 
Apparently, USB high-speed mode can handle 1,5MB/s which is enough for 6 channels of 24/44.1 (which is almost 800kB/s). However, 6 channels of 24/96 is over 1,7MB/s and thus too much for USB.

Ego Systems have a 2I/O USB audio interface which has 24bit converters but only supports 16bit due to the low transfer rates of USB. What gives? Maybe Ego Systems don't know what they're doing or the faster USB standard wasn't released when they made their box. This seems strange as well though as the lower speed standard handles 187kB/s, which is enough for 2 channels of 16/44,1, while Ego System claims 2I/O with their box.

Confused yet? Yeah, me too.

/Ola
 
I am confused...

I actually heard good things about MIDI and USB. Hell, I have a MIDIMAN 2x2 USB port, and I think it does the job just fine.

What about latency issues?
 
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