22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
8:34 a.m.
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.