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Title: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: tubos on August 30, 2006, 04:23:18 AM

-For recording up to 4 inputs at the same time with my windows laptop

-Quality >= 16b / 44K  ;D

I know lexicon omega is an option any other ones?

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: poorlyconditioned on August 30, 2006, 05:02:44 AM

Quote from: tubos on August 30, 2006, 04:23:18 AM

-For recording up to 4 inputs at the same time with my windows laptop

-Quality >= 16b / 44K  ;D

I know lexicon omega is an option any other ones?

Emagic 6|2m.

By the way, I've got one of these forsale :).

  Richard

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: tubos on September 03, 2006, 12:56:07 PM

Looks like the alesis multimix firewire can also record in multitrack.

I'm interested in user experiences.

tx

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: taper420 on October 01, 2006, 03:24:35 PM

Firewire, but MOTU traveler is very nice, and you can upgrade the preamps through black lion audio

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: tscales on October 05, 2006, 12:44:19 PM

I've been usin my UA-5 > Laptop via usb with good success - i wonder if I could just hook TWO ua-5s into the laptop?

Hmmm.

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: celticrogues on October 10, 2006, 02:35:40 AM

A lot of the USB options out there are limited to 2 tracks - if you go Firewire you will have a much better selection. For USB, though, there is also the Edirol UA-101 - it has 10 channels of I/O - future expandability, mabye?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Edirol-UA101-Computer-Recording-Interface?sku=240218&src=3WFRWXX

Cheers,
-Mike

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: wbrisette on October 10, 2006, 06:54:22 AM

Quote from: celticrogues on October 10, 2006, 02:35:40 AM

A lot of the USB options out there are limited to 2 tracks - if you go Firewire you will have a much better selection.

It's all about bandwidth. Even with USB 2, bandwidth is a huge problem. Of course if you go check out Tom's Hardware site you'll soon understand why, most USB 2 cards are only about 1/2 of what they are suppose to be, that and Windows had never been super speedy with either USB or FireWire (lots of overhead). If you must go with USB, then the Emagic option would be the one I would go with, although it is no longer supported on either Windows or Mac OS. I would suggest you look into purchasing a FW card and a FW device. Your options open up considerably then.

Wayne

Title: Re: USB audio recording interface with 4 analog inputs
Post by: rowjimmy on October 11, 2006, 09:22:00 AM

All this but it isn't clear, do you require 4 pre-amps? or simply 4 analog inputs?