[Rwp] A soundcard accessible?

[Chris Belle]

Thank you kindly,
On some hybrid interfaces because of design or what ever,
I suspect bridging,
it doesn't make much difference,
but I was hoping it would on this one as I already own some modestly 
priced USB interfaces but wanted something accessible and flexible that 
would give me the same super low latency I am  used to with my mackie 
onyx board.
There's just no need to run that thing for small projects, it get's 
warm  in that control room even with air conditioning,
and that's just one less large heat immiting electronic item I need to 
run when I don't need to.


On 2/11/2016 11:39 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> USB is about twice as latent as firewire with the same audio 
> interface, all the same block and buffer settings, etc. If you have 
> firewire, use it.
>
> On 2/10/2016 9:14 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
>> hey Patrick?
>> Maybe you missed my question.
>> Was just curious if you have found any performance differences with the
>> audio express using it firewire vs USB?
>> I know you tend to favor fw like I do, but wondered if you had done any
>> tests with it on the USB side, or had ocation to use it that way when fw
>> wasn't available?
>>
>>
>> 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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