Loving my Quad-Capture!!!

I just got the Octa-Capture and just love it.......................

Jonbouy has one and he loves it.
(or says he does)

Jonbouy

bapu


Jonbouy has one and he loves it.
(or says he does)

I do indeed.

It was the manna from heaven I needed from an interface.

My Quad and I are soon to be married and we expect to have lots of beautiful children together.  She is 'the one' for me.

I dunno about built for Sonar it works like a charm on everything I've got without issue I just run it with a 64 sample buffer on W7 and forget about it.

Windows 7 Pro 64-bit SP1 / XP Pro SP3 Dual Boot, ASUS P8H67-M PRO, i7-2600K @ 3.90GHz
Skip the dual boot XP... no need of that..

Got my Quad a couple of weeks ago....

Are you guys using the Quad's WDM drivers or the Asio drivers?

Which flavor gives better latency results?

Thanks. 

vicsant


Got my Quad a couple of weeks ago....

Are you guys using the Quad's WDM drivers or the Asio drivers?

Which flavor gives better latency results?

Thanks. 

I don't know if this is still true, but years ago I believe the big boys (Jim @ studiocat & Scott @ adkproaudio) used to say that each system is different and where one will get lowest latency with ASIO another will get lower latency with WDM. Their advice was to try both with the "response" project.


Again, don't know if this still holds water. 

chudson


I echo all of the positive comments but i am experiencing one minor niggle.

About 50% of the time when playing back a project/track I get an error along the lines of "error there is no audio interface configured for this project" or something similar. I can't be precise because i am not at my workstation. This is a transient problem in so much as if i wait a few seconds then hit the spacebar/play button everything is fine. I suspect that this is some kind of buffering issue somewhere between the driver, the processor or the quad itself preventing proper communication. 
I am running a dell laptop with 6mb ram intel i5 dual core processor with win7 x64.

anyone else seen this behaviour?


thanks

I have the Octa and I have seen this message too, although it is much more rare for me. It happens when opening Sonar after having just closed it (don't ask, I'm an idiot sometimes).    I really don't know what causes it, but I just cycle the octa off then back on, and it works fine.  Otherwise I absolutely LOVE the Octa.  It is a great bit of gear.

Any modern i5/ i7 system should be able to run at 64 samples at least without issue (potentially 96 samples for huge projects).

+1

All day long.

You'll hate the Quad if you like diddling with your interface...

There's nothing to be done. It just works.

Connect  a low output guitar and switch to guitar at the back.
The buzzing is not acceptable for a modern interface.

I sent mine back and returned to my old UA-101 and UA-25EX.

i got mine a few weeks ago and i freaking love it... just wish i had the money for an octa capture to record some drums.

i havent been able to run mine at less than 8ms latency, probably because of my i3 cpu. but in any case its awesome

I have done two of my basses direct through the quad-capture...super clean no noise. Done a DI and a mic on a acoustic with great results. Very clean and honestly very quiet...no complaints. The headphone out is a bit low for me, that is the one flaw that I see. I wish the main out was switchable or to have separate control over the monitors and headphones. As for the preamps and stability of the drivers it is amazing IMO. 

Seth Perlstein [Cakewalk
] Definitely use the ASIO drivers when using a VS Streaming device (Quad-Capture, Octa-Capture, VS-100, VS-700). These devices use Roland's VS-Streaming driver which can go down to a 48 sample buffer and are very efficient at very low latency. Any modern i5/ i7 system should be able to run at 64 samples at least without issue (potentially 96 samples for huge projects).


SP 

Wow, that's impressive.  While I can technically run at 64 samples with my MOTU gear, it's not stable there.  128 samples seems to be the minimum for me when doing real work - but then again, between my 2408 (with ADA8000 for 8 more analog ins) & 24I/O, I do have 40 simultaneous analog inputs - a little more than 4 


Talking of WDM vs ASIO, it's a no-brainer to use ASIO if you can.  The automatic latency compensation alone is worth using ASIO over WDM, because ASIO drivers report their round-trip latency, while WDM does not.  Also, when you are running WDM, if you choose to change your buffers at the hardware level, you always have to re-profile your card - this is a non-issue with ASIO.


The only advantage WDM really has is if you are using disparate interfaces with different drivers - but that's a hack at the best of times.  And let's face it - WASAPI looked good on paper, but what has it delivered? - Nothing!