http://www.m-audio.com/products/m-audio/mobilepre.php not entirely sure what you guys have been talking about but i saw a reference to the imic and had to give my 2 cents... the imic sucks, plain and simple. I've tried to put some guitar on a track in some audio program or other using my korg pxr4 out to the imic and it was almost 2 full seconds behind. latency in the imic is a huge problem on my ibook. i've been toying around with getting the new edirol 32 key midi-keyboard with a bunch of audio in and out options on the back of the unit. m-audio, which i've provided a link to has some great stuff. the link is to their usb pre which i've seen as low as $179 on the web would be as much as getting multiple imics and i'd assume lightyears beyond in audio quality. ============================================================ From: "Ben Kennedy" <ben@zygoat.ca> Date: 2003/10/24 Fri AM 11:34:38 EDT To: "Doggiebox List(s)" <doggiebox@lists.zygoat.ca> Subject: Re: [Doggiebox] audio out On 24 10 2003 at 11:30 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Does anyone know anything cheaper and dumber (like, just lets you split multiple audio channels via Firewire or USB into audio, and nothing more? :) I've got plenty of mixing power on my VS-1680, though little output power from my PowerBook (which only does Firewire through a PC card, but if I save up to get my wife one of those new iBooks .... :)
By far the cheapest device I've seen is the Griffin iMic... it's got a pair of stereo minijacks (one for in and one for out) and connects by USB. It's what I was using for too long before getting the "real" equipment. :) I haven't tried, but I imagine you could probably plug several of these babies into your computer if you had enough USB ports. Of course, the output quality is lesser (and input quality sucked, I kept having problems with noise and weird clipping and stuff, but I began to conclude it was crappy USB audio drivers in Mac OS X), and they only support 44.1khz at 20-bit. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zygoat Doggiebox discussion list - <http://www.doggiebox.com> To unsubscribe, view archives or change your options: <http://lists.zygoat.ca/mailman/listinfo/doggiebox> ============================================================
On 24 10 2003 at 12:42 pm -0400, dpwalsh6@cox.net wrote:
the imic sucks, plain and simple. I've tried to put some guitar on a track in some audio program or other using my korg pxr4 out to the imic and it was almost 2 full seconds behind. latency in the imic is a huge problem on my ibook.
The latency problem has nothing to do with the iMic, and everything to do with the fact that you are mixing the signal in software before sending back out. This illustrates another reason to favour firewire... since it's 33 times faster, there's 33 times less inherent latency in the hardware. Still, if you are monitoring a software mix, there will always be some latency. (That's another cool thing about the MOTU deck... you can set up a bunch of on-board mixes between the inputs and outputs, and monitor with zero latency.)
the link is to their usb pre which i've seen as low as $179 on the web would be as much as getting multiple imics and i'd assume lightyears beyond in audio quality.
Well, the MobilePre (from your link) does look like it's got some more facility than the imic... but then, it also costs several times more. It might be a decent option if you want to stick with USB though. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
I personally use an Edirol UA-5, a two channel USB audio device. If I set Deck, the software I use for recording, to use the UA5 as both the input and output device I can monitor in the analog domain with no latency problems. I have two songs posted on www.itsallconnected.com/downloads.php if you want to hear the audio quality. I think it sounds pretty good for a $150 audio device. Cheers, Christoph
the link is to their usb pre which i've seen as low as $179 on the web would be as much as getting multiple imics and i'd assume lightyears beyond in audio quality.
Well, the MobilePre (from your link) does look like it's got some more facility than the imic... but then, it also costs several times more. It might be a decent option if you want to stick with USB though.
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