![]() ![]() I imagine I could just buy/make a DI box to balance the signal into my speakers. I’ll cross the ASIO bridge when it comes. Most active monitors have balanced inputs so it will be a shame it’s unbalanced and it will be 6dB lower (and thus slightly noisier for a given volume) in level due to it but apart from that you should be fine. Should be fine running straight into a pair of monitors. Have heard many people say that often you can’t get two ASIO applications working at the same time with a lot of cards but not sure if this is only because they don’t incorporate a mixer to send them down different channels and mix into one stream at the end. With good cards and their own ASIO driver I’ve always had to assign them to their own (virtual) output and then it will work. Unsure how ASIO4All seems to get around this but the couple of onboard soundcards I’ve tried it with have. I looked at the Lexicon but it kind of looks flimsy if you get me, and I can’t find many reviews for it from actual reputable sources, just amazon reviews from people who sound like they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing (like the fast track seems very geared towards recording inputs for the amateur, and I fear that the designers have focused more on the quality of transferring the input quality to your DAW as opposed to the output quality to the monitors.Īnything through the Windows driver will use the same virtual output, same as they will all work at the same time.ĪSIO on the whole will never share an output and if you have your soundcard (output) using ASIO you can’t get it to WDM (eg stream from web or default output on most media players) without closing your ASIO application. I’m just looking for something for use at home really. I was splitting from my laptop soundcard into a stereo attenuator which worked okay but my laptop soundcard has now massively failed on me so I need something else. I don’t really know what I’m looking for because I’m not that massively clued up on soundcard latency. I don’t play out on our rig yet but when it does come to that I have a bank of decent soundcards that I can borrow for live use, and I’m more interested in live mashups rather than DJing so it will all be coming out of Ableton, not Traktor etc., Orginally i was planning to get cheaper interface but decided to play it safe. ![]() Small amout of features it has it handles them very well. I got this one with 92€ which is isn’t cheap in my opinion for this set of features, espeacially because there is not line-in. One think that i really like about this interface is that volume knobs are on top of the Other differenceīetween these models is that Fast track II have phantom power for mic input. When i was doing research about audiointerfacesīefore buying this one, i found out that you can get earlier version of Fast track way cheaper (60-70€) but sound quality of it isn’t that good either. Sound of Fast track II is very clean and clear. Just one for mic and one for instrument input. One thing to concider is that it doesn’t have Maybe it’s not the most optimal solution for you but based on what you wrote, should work for your needs. If you connect headphones, it will mute rca output. It have stereo rca output and headphone output. I recently purchaced M-audio Fast track II. If they are passive, you need an amplifier in between. If your monitors are active, you can connect monitors directly to soundcard / audio interface. Guess good drivers and low latency may be fairly high on your list, no? If you do there is the Enu 0204 with second output configured similar to the NI Audio 2 (as a headphone socket) or the Fast Track Pro with 4x4 and MIDI. On that note there have been a few discussions of problems with the Emu 0202 conflicting with other drivers on this board lately…ĭo you not want 4 (2 stereo pair) outputs? I thought you did live stuff from the lappy… Guess if it’s not actual DJing (Traktor etc) you can still get away with one though. M-Audio Fast Track and Emu 0202 are others that get regular mention for 2 channel output. I’ve been wondering how good/bad this one is later for people with not too dissimilar requirements as yourself.Ĭheap, has headphone amp (does have mic and instrument input too, which you don’t need.) Know Lexicon have done some alright effects in the past but audio interface by them is an unknown.
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