 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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Mon 17 Feb 2003, 10:56
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 Maniac Member  Group: Members Posts: 645 Joined: 17-May 02 From: Broughton Member No.: 4,705 |
If you're not planning on importing any live music at all at this point, perhaps don't bother with Cubase (or anything else) for now - Reason alone would do fine for background/meditation tracks, with all its synths etc. You could then add a sequencer at a later date when you want to expand your recording set-up.
As long as you have a decent Midi keyboard or Midi interface, you can get a lot out of Reason. You can also incorporate audio samples using the NNXT/NN19 samplers. Slightly off the subject, but there's also a new ReFill (basically lots of extra sounds) for Reason just released by www.lapjockey.com/flatpack - a whole lot of extra vintage synths and drum machines to expand Reason's range. They sound nice. Ryosode: you must have seen M-Audio's latest brochure! People recording in subway stations and bars with an Ozone and a PowerBook - it does look tempting... 
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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 Presto The Audio In on the Mac uses 16bit processing (unl... Sun 9 Feb 2003, 11:23 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 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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