 Hardware Recommendations, USB or Firewire Audio Devices |
  Mon 13 Jan 2003, 16:55
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Ive been creating music for a few months now using Ableton Live 1.5, Reason 2.0 and an Oxygen 8 controller. Im using a G4/450 cube, which some of you may already know has no PCI slots so i cant add an audio card. So, I've been looking for a USB or Firewire device so that i can accept signals from my turntables and other devices as well as send a signal to my stereo receiver which accepts RCA connectors so that i can monitor on something that sounds better than my macs speakers.....
anyway... can anyone recommend any devices to solve this sort of thing? Ive looked at a couple of the eMagic boxes but im wondering if theres anything less expensive... |
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Sun 9 Feb 2003, 11:23
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The Audio In on the Mac uses 16bit processing (unless something important has changed). External cards such as the Mbox does a 24bit analogue to digital conversion etc etc.
When you potter with the sound, once digitized and in your computer, calculations involve rounding-off results. Information becomes less and less precise (cf Mars probe fiasco). If its all done in 24bits you end up with let's say 16bit quality. If its done with 16bit numbers you end up with let's say 12bit quality. You need to end up with the 16bit quality of CDs. -------------------- Without shit, we wouldn't be here ;)
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SpiralZ Hardware Recommendations Mon 13 Jan 2003, 16:55
rickenbacker I don't know about less expensive, but I'v... Tue 14 Jan 2003, 11:35 ryosode I like my Tascam US-428, which not only has Audio ... Tue 14 Jan 2003, 21:27 Myerzman I'm interested to know if one had an Imac with... Sat 8 Feb 2003, 07:28 deaconblue Which iMac model do you have? Do you have a newer... Sun 9 Feb 2003, 06:03 rickenbacker Myerzman: if you had a UA-700, why would you plug ... Sun 9 Feb 2003, 23:27 charlieb QUOTE (SpiralZ @ Jan 13 2003, 15:55)Ive been ... Sun 16 Feb 2003, 10:45 rickenbacker charlieb: I know you didn't ask me but I'm... Sun 16 Feb 2003, 13:50 ryosode I'm with rickenbacker on this one. I have Live... Sun 16 Feb 2003, 20:46 charlieb Ryosode and Rickenbacker.
Thanks so much for the i... Mon 17 Feb 2003, 00:00 rickenbacker If you're not planning on importing any live m... Mon 17 Feb 2003, 10:56 charlieb QUOTE (rickenbacker @ Feb 17 2003, 09:56)If y... Mon 17 Feb 2003, 11:10 rickenbacker Hey, charlieb.
Maybe you don't understand wha... Mon 17 Feb 2003, 11:30 charlieb Rickenbacker,
WOW, what an education!
I guess ... Mon 17 Feb 2003, 12:30
rickenbacker De nada. Tue 18 Feb 2003, 10:51 |
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