[Rwp] A soundcard accessible?

Matt Turner meturner2214 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 19:44:15 EST 2016


I have a roland tri capture, and it works grate.

On 2/4/2016 7:34 PM, Jes wrote:
> Chris is correct the audio express does indeed do FireWire and USB.
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> Jes
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> Sent from a nifty device
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>> On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> The most perfect thing ever made in my oppinion was the first version of the mackie onyx series i mixers.
>> You not only had a 100 percent accessible routing on a real board, different sizes and amounts of routin for different needs, but you had a 100 percent accessible and simple software control pannel.
>> Unfortunately,
>> they changed the firewire card on the board for that mixer, which is all respects is still the same on the mixer itself, but the software is no longer accessible.
>> But if you never need to change buffer sizes, or need to aggregate more than one device,
>> then that mixer is still a good choice for a blind person, because all routing on the mixer is totally accessible,
>> all the aux sends and sub mixes and channels are all accessible via firewire, and very much quality components.
>> I have a student,
>> who has a 1640i
>> like I do except he got version two of it, and he loves it.
>> It might be possible to spot up the controls to change the buffer size, that's about the only thing I'd want to change also these will go down to 32 asio buffers,
>> both version 1 and 2 which is significant
>> because that means you can run at super low latencies even at 44.1 or 48k,
>> normally you get your lowest latency at 64 asio buffers at 96k,
>> which is typical for many interfaces, but the mackie let's you do this at the lower sampling rates by making the bufer even smaller.
>> If you only need a simple
>> 2 in and 2 out I can recommend the steinber ur22,
>> which software pannel
>> is doable not the most friendly but I can manage it, and being a simple 2 in and out you can get at the stuff you need,
>> it has fantom power, high impedance switchable combo jacks for guitar and bass input, and it actually can go up to 192k recording.
>> It is a usb 2 interface,
>> not firewire like the mackie.
>> I think the MOTU
>> that everyone is talking about does both fw and USB Patrick can correct me if I'm wrong,
>> if you need a lot of IO though,
>> and don't want to mess about with adat light pipe, and such then that mackie 1640i offers 16 in and 16 out
>> that tape style analog mix down with real analog circuits is sweet.
>> but it's 15 hundred bucks, and may be more than you want to pay.
>> For me, having real aux sends and sub mix downs accessible on knobs and sliders is essential,
>> I don't want to be messing about in a software control pannel for basic i/o when I have folks in the studio,
>> we all know how dodgy that stuff can be sometimes,
>> hot spot clicker and ahk are great tools,
>> but I think a knob you can grab on the spot has that beat 'grin'.
>> But that's just me.
>> All of these are good choices, depending on what you need, and how much you want to spend.
>> I plan to always have a board on hand, and at least
>> 16 channels of i/o.
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>>> On 2/4/2016 2:32 AM, germano carella wrote:
>>> Hi to all,
>>> Can you suggest me a sound card with a control panel accessible for screen readers?
>>> I have a focusrite scarlet 18i8, but his control panel is not accessible.
>>> Have you a suggestion for me?
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