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 Tue 10 Aug 2004, 06:33
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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 |
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Wed 11 Aug 2004, 07:02
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 03-Aug 04 From: Melbourne - AU Member No.: 48,138 |
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.
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Wed 18 Aug 2004, 16:56
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 17-Aug 04 From: Motycz - PL Member No.: 49,021 |
If I were you , I would decide to take Edirol . Gear produced by M-Audio may cause you some problems .
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Thu 19 Aug 2004, 06:03
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 110 Joined: 20-Feb 04 From: ACT - AU Member No.: 36,296 |
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 |
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Thu 19 Aug 2004, 11:41
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 03-Aug 04 From: Melbourne - AU Member No.: 48,138 |
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.
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Fri 20 Aug 2004, 05:17
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Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 16-Jul 04 From: Queenstown - NZ Member No.: 47,017 |
QUOTE (Mac-Dee @ Aug 19 2004, 05:03) 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 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 |
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