[LAU] M-Audio M-Track Eight

[Thomas Ebeling]

Good morning,

I can recommend the Tascam US-16x08 as an alternative in the same price 
range. It is class compliant and thanks to onkelDead, the mainline 
kernel now includes a mixer interface for this. The only thing I dislike 
about this interface is, that when you use the builtin compressor and 
EQ, that's gonna end up on your recording. And I wouldn't recommend that 
thing to a Windows user. Their ASIO drivers suck. But hooked to it's own 
USB bus, I love that thing under Linux.

MrBollie


On 21.01.2018 23:28, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:26:39 +0000, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> The Focusrite was my first choice for USB, but the 2ndGen ones
>> supposedly need to have the control program run before they can be
>> used. As I have only Linux machines that's not possible.
> I neither have a Mac, nor a Windows machine, so I can't run the mixer
> software. It's no problem to use the Focusrite with its default
> settings. IIRC the inputs are not assigned to any outputs, so there is
> no hardware monitoring enabled at all. I don't have time to test it and
> make sure that I'm not mistaken before next weekend.
>
>> The Presonus looks OK-ish, but I'm not keen on having *all* the inputs
>> on the front - I would want 6 inputs permanently plugged into synths.
>> Also it's the oldest design, being at least 6 years old, and doesn't
>> appear to have individual channel level indication (just activity).
> I'm using the Focusrite as a MIDI interface and audio output device for
> my iPad. I need to test this, too, but IIRC the meters don't work
> without the Mac/Windows software. I wouldn't miss the meters, if I
> should use the Focusritre as an input device, something that will
> happen soon or later, at least to record guitars.
>
>> The M-Audio one seems to tick all the boxes, but what I don't know is
>> what it's actual performance is like, in particular reliability and
>> latency.
> People located in Europe could order a device by the Internet, test it
> and return it within two weeks and would get their money back.
>