markyzno


I was looking at the Roland Octa capture.... Any fellow Cakies out their running this card with X2?

Any Problems?

I'm not using the Octacapture, but I'm using the Quadcapture with a laptop, Win 7 Pro, 64 bit, no problems. I'm thinking about getting an Octacapture for the tower to use with hexaphonic guitar PU.
 

Since Cakewalk is a part of Roland Corp, i think that there is no compatibility issue with Sonar and Roland audio cards.

That is why i began with Edirol (UA25, FA101, UA1000, UA101), and i never had any problem of stability (except with the FA101, because of the firewire).

I have read somewhere that Roland have already published the Win 8 drivers for its audio cards.

For the way to use 2 octacapture together, you can download the Octacapture manual, in which it is explained.

Anything RME, even thier old pci stuff on ebay is still killer gear!

Decided to go for MOTU in the end.

Cant find anything horrific about their drivers on google........

Mr Wizard, you stopped me from buying a Roland card! lol! Congrats!

wizard71


I too sold my delta1010 and bought an octa capture. Much better soundcard, haven't had any major problems as of yet but when sonar does crash on occasion the sonarDPR.exe problem can still rear it's ugly little head. I'm not sure that its been confirmed by cake that soundcard drivers cause this event to happen, but I could be wrong, because it usually happens if I try and do something whilst audio is playing. Not very often mind.
Bottom line is... I don't think you would regret the Roland.

Bibs

It all depends what you are looking for and what you are willing to spend.

RME has the best drivers and lowest latency even though the Roland Oct card runs in very low latency too. I never used it myself.
Very good budget card. EMU 1616M is another winner with the best professional converters 120 db Cirrus Logic same converters as Digidesign's flagship ProTools HD 192 I/O Interface. You need to pay at least €1800 to get the same quality as EMU 1616M converters.
http://www.creative.com/emu/products/product.aspx?category=505&pid=19007
 
 
In the high end category RME's converters doesn't sound very great.  RME sound very harsh and clinic.
So if you looking for best audio and quality I would do this.
 
 
RME MADI FX or RayDAT (PCIexpress card + best drivers)
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdspe_madi_fx.php
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdspe_raydat.php

Hooked up to-----> SSL Alpha Link
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/music/xlogic%20alpha-link/

or Lynx Aurora 16
http://www.lynxstudio.com/product_detail.asp?i=1



Or perhaps UAD Apollo. Be aware that Apollo's routing isn't the best. Its really stupid controlpanel if you want to hook up hardware.
http://www.uaudio.com/apollo