[Rwp] A soundcard accessible?

[Hadi]

I checked some motu product prices; They're very expensive for me, alas. 
I'm stuck with a  scarlett 8i6 which is not accessible at all.


On 2/6/2016 12:30 PM, Tayeb Meftah wrote:
> anyone can use that shitty panel of mBox mAudio ?
>
>
> Envoyé de mon iPad
>
> Le 6 févr. 2016 à 08:40, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>> a écrit :
>
>> hey Patrick, have you noticed any difference in performance with USB 
>> vs firewire mode on that audio express?
>>
>>
>> On 2/4/2016 12:05 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>> Yeah, the hardware is accessible, however, you still need the 
>>> software for a few things, like changing clock, sample rate, buffer 
>>> size, headphone routing, etc. The Audio Express is one of those 
>>> interfaces you can't override the asio block size with Reaper as you 
>>> can with most. Fortunately, these things are all accessible in the 
>>> MOTU Audio Console, the basic control panel for the device, though 
>>> the MOTU Cue-Mix FX software is not. With the Audio Express, the 
>>> only things I've not really been able to do are invert the phase of 
>>> channels, and making channel pairs link their volume controls, 
>>> neither of which are a big deal to me, personally.
>>>
>>> The MOTU MicroBook 2, which is a smaller interface based on the same 
>>> idea, however, is more of a challenge, as it has far less hardware 
>>> controls than the Audio Express. For example, the AE can be used as 
>>> a small 4x4 (technically 4x6, I suppose,) stand-alone mixer away 
>>> from a computer. Thus, you can route any input to any output all 
>>> from the front panel, as well as creating submixes for each output 
>>> within the hardware itself. The only two controls on the MicroBook 2 
>>> are input gain (controls either mic or line input, depending on 
>>> which is selected, also toggles phantom power for the single XLR 
>>> input,) and another knob that controls either the main or headphone 
>>> out, depending on which has been toggled. If you want to do any 
>>> routing, you have to use the inaccessible Cue-Mix FX.
>>>
>>> I eventually resorted to having a sighted friend make some templates 
>>> for me, as one of the few accessible parts of the software is 
>>> switching presets.
>>> The presets are all XML-based, so perhaps with a little time and 
>>> effort, I could figure out the tags and change what I want.
>>>
>>> For example, by default, with the MicroBook 2, the headphone out is 
>>> it's own mix and routable output, meaning if you route something to 
>>> main, it doesn't come across the headphone out. Maybe this is fine 
>>> if you want two discrete mixes, but in a simple situation where you 
>>> just want to plug in and go, it's annoying, since you have to change 
>>> your DAW's output routing. There is an easy (if you can see) way to 
>>> route things to the headphone mix, of course.
>>> This is even possible accessibly with the same software and the AE 
>>> through a menu bar option, but, while the AE and MicroBook 2 use the 
>>> same software, those options are greyed out, and you have to go to 
>>> another part of the mixer to accomplish this. I'm not sure why they 
>>> didn't leave that well enough alone.
>>>
>>> There is also no accessible way to control the dynamics processing 
>>> in the MicroBook 2. Each channel and mix can have it's own dynamic 
>>> compressor and parametric EQ. I actually don't think the Audio 
>>> Express has this, but it's more flexible in every other respect.
>>>
>>> On 2/4/2016 11:43 AM, Chris Smart wrote:
>>>> At 11:30 AM 2/4/2016, you wrote:
>>>>> The mark of the unicorn audio express. The hardware is totally
>>>>> accessible. Get that, and you won't go back.
>>>>
>>>> Great to know this!
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
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