Ok so I am talking to my Mac supplier as i live way away from any music stores and he says he can get these brands of midi interface for me
evolution,
midiman/M-audio
edirol

can someone comment on these.. i though someone said a motu fastlane was a good interface but he said that wa not in his list but was gonna check it out more..

any comments would be greatly appreciated.. I am going to use a 133 ibook with 1 gig ram and internal audio and a single yamaha external midi keyboard for most of the sounds.

cheers

shane

I have an edirol UA-20 (USB) that I use in Logic Pro on my iBook G3-800 for on the road recordings. The Midi part works fine for what it is (1 in, 1 out) while the audio interface part has quite a long latency. I would say it's fine a cheaper alternative to some more pro midi translators.

If I were you , I would decide to take Edirol . Gear produced by M-Audio may cause you some problems .

Hey Shaneblyth

If hes a Mac supplier he should also be able to get emagic products as apple own them now.

I would recomend Emagic at the top for just a simple midi interface
The : Emagic : MT4 does the job well ,

Emagic.de

how many midi i/o do you need ? do you need a audio interface as well?


if he seriously can't get emagic i think its worth u just ordering one of audimidi.com
edirol are good

hope this helps

I have used Edirol UA-20 and emagic MT4. They were both pretty reliable, but the MT4 is certainly the more pro choice... (not "pro choice" ) Emagic is great gear generally, but get what you can. Midi number crunching is pretty basic for most computers these days.

I think he is a little fish in a large pond so is not that great.. My town is only 15000 locals and 1.1 million tourists a year so yeah.
You make a good point about Audio... I only have a single midi keyboard (Yamaha) and I was lead to believe that for audio work I could just plug my mixer into the audio input on the notebook and record 1 audio track at a time..
I am not doing pro work but should i maybe be looking at a midi/audio interface instead ?
as i said only 1 audio track record at a time..
It seems that USB is not a good way to go if I want an audio input as well... but unless there is a cheap alternative with good latency then i will just use the standard audio input jack..

what do people recon ?... this will feed from my eurorack MX802A mixer.. and it is only a bedroom recording studio so pretty low tech