murphmusik
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leaping from FW to USB....advice?
My M-Audio 1814 FW is crapping out on me with my new Windows 7 computer. They want me to change a million things on my computer to get it to play nice, but so far nothing's really making any difference.
I have been reading recently about the very high quality of USB 2 interfaces...and I am ready to jump the FW ship.
I can spend about $300......any suggestions of what I should check out?
I really only need a few I/O, 2 XLR, a few balanced and maybe MIDI.
Thanks all!
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/19 10:21:00
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There is a thread about the RME USB unit, but that is more expensive by far.
The Cakewalk interfaces are worth a look - that is where I'd start in that price range.
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murphmusik
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/19 10:31:16
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yeah...I've seen the RME one....$1299 out of my price range for sure! I'll check the Cakewalk ones. I know there's threads on them, but they're fairly new...I'm worried about bugs.....
thanks for the tip though! much appreciated...
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/19 13:07:21
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cheaper usb interfaces may(probably wont) not give you as good low latency performance as the firewire unit-
This is only an issue if you use sofsynths a lot.
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/19 13:49:07
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Hi Erin,
You want the FastTrack Ultra. ~$350
Make sure to get the Ultra version... as this is the version that offers low round-trip latency.
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murphmusik
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/19 13:56:04
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Thanks Jim....I will check that out..
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/27 17:50:50
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MOTU UltraLite mk3. Not sure about the price though. It has both USB and FW interfaces.
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Lanceindastudio
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/28 00:29:24
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/28 07:55:05
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I recently bought a Fast Track Ultra 8R to replace a defective Firewire unit. So far it's working OK, no problems. Lower latency than I had with the Firewire device, too.
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Re:leaping from FW to USB....advice?
2010/08/28 14:40:51
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This. True, tried and tested for many years. Around $200. 
post edited by Anubis - 2010/08/28 14:46:16
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