[Rwp] A soundcard accessible?

[Chris Belle]

Save your money, it's better to have something you will like and can get 
the most use out of rather than something which will frustrate you 
constantly.


On 2/6/2016 5:53 AM, Hadi wrote:
> 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.
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> 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> 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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