New Equipment Opinions Interface usb2 Fw etc

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2010/12/27 18:59:18 (permalink)

New Equipment Opinions Interface usb2 Fw etc

A few years back I bought a Powerstudio 660 (Sonar Studio 6 and SPS66 firewire interface) installed to a Toshiba laptop dual core Vista with 2GB ram. I struggled for it to work, then had a few enjoyable year, then couldn't run sonar as of 6 months ago, and the hard-drive crashed 2 months ago (more the laptop than the sonar). Tis the season: I bought a Gateway DX4840-11e off the shelf, windows 7, i3, 550 with 8GB Ram, no firewire (laugh if you must). Now, I can spend $100 to have a firewire port installed or get a new interface (I am planning to upgrade to Producer-X1). I have some potential to get into some hobby-band hobby-recording and am looking at the Tascam US-800, but would be just as happy holding onto my sps66 and skipping the band recordings. Is a new usb2 interface a mis-step? Is there a direction those of you with more experience think I'd be happier with? Thanks in advance!

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    sandman5000
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    Re:New Equipment Opinions Interface usb2 Fw etc 2010/12/27 19:17:09 (permalink)
    There is nothing wrong with USB 2 audio interfaces, provided you get a decent one. And nothing wrong with modern off the shelf laptops.  {rovided they are properly tweaked. 

    I use the VS100 and its really great.  I use a variety of set ups. But here is one I use live: 

    guitarist on one channel, recorded to its own track and processed through guitar rig 4. Bass on its own channel, eq'ed with sonitus and recorded on its own channel. vocals on another channel with compression and reverb (classic free plugs). I also record the main mix (another two channels).

    And then I have ez drummer layered with Konkat SS drums. I play and record these via midi and my e drums.
    I also have a midi keyboard set up with Reason 5 and a couple of VST's. Those are played and recorded as midi and the sound is manipulated through the various knobs on my controller. This is at a latency setting of 96 buffers. Though 128 is the same.

    Pretty much a whole band mixed, processed and recorded on my $500 i3 acer laptop and the VS100.

    But roland has the new octa interfaces and there are several others with good latency.  The RME would probably be the best,  but I'm very happy with the VS 100 and my little acer. 
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