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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I picked up a dongle like usb sound card a while
bacfk from directron.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It has a via chip set, but it has drivers you can
install to make it better than the class compliant defaults, and it was pretty
nice for a 20 dollar device.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I even ran it in my daw just to see what'd happen
and got the latency down to acceptable levels believe it or not.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I wouldn't use this as an interface of course, but
it would do in a pinch if you had to for something quick and dirty.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It's got that typical turn the gain way down for a
line level, but it is stereo in, most of those cheapo sound card deals are mono
in.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And this one would go up to 192 khz
too.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=patrick@pdaudio.net href="mailto:patrick@pdaudio.net">Patrick
Perdue</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=rwp@reaaccess.com
href="mailto:rwp@reaaccess.com">Reapers Without Peepers</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:52
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [RWP] Does Behringer
U-CONTROL UCA222 have internal drivers?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On that note, I just picked up a Griffin iMic for $10. It has a
stereo <BR>line/mic input, which is just a little noisy (insert sarcasm here,)
<BR>though it is stereo, but the output is quite clean, certainly sounds
<BR>nicer than any of the C-Media/SSS Chinese dongles I have.<BR>I mostly
bought it to use as a sound device for virtual machines.<BR>There is no
physical volume control, just a switch on the side to turn <BR>plugin power on
and off for the input jack.<BR><BR>On 1/23/2014 11:32 AM, Indigo
wrote:<BR>> Well, that little cheap Chinese USB device that; I think; you
also have;<BR>> says in the included docs that came with mine it has a USB
driver built<BR>> in the hardware, so requires no external drivers
whatsoever.<BR>> Maybe that is true, I guess I could get it up and going,
then go to<BR>> Control Panel/System and look to learn what driver, if any,
is shown;<BR>> that is; if I cared enough.<BR>> I save it for emergency
use, when all else fails, like it came in handy<BR>> when doing an OS
install that didn't include RealTech drivers.<BR>> It was useful just now;
to show me that the PCI express Asus card is the<BR>> only sound engine
that quits speaking after I opened Reason 7.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Anyway,
if you can hear the Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 opening and<BR>> closing its
audio constantly, that definitely rules it out for speech.<BR>> The first
thing I would have thought was that it is a noise gate that<BR>> was
opening and closing, so the user can't hear the nasty background<BR>> hiss
from its cheap AD/DA converters. smile.<BR>><BR>> I have a very quiet
and transparent sounding USB device, the eMu 0404<BR>> USB, which has
XLR ins and headphone amp, but Creative eMu says it<BR>> cannot be used
simultaneously with my eMu 16 16M PCIE card.<BR>> I think they're probably
correct, since Creative tends to use the same<BR>> strings of code in all
their drivers, so one can expect all kinds of<BR>> conflicts when using
more than 1 of their products.<BR>> With extreme care and careful order of
installation, some have run an<BR>> eMu soundcard plus something like an
Autigy card, but I really want to<BR>> totally avoid those times when
software gets into a head-butting fight<BR>> and speech disappears.<BR>>
I guess I'll look for a USB device for speech other than the cheap<BR>>
little Behringer,<BR>> Thanks,<BR>> Indi<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
On 1/23/2014 10:33 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:<BR>>> It just uses the
default Windows composite audio class USB driver.<BR>>> It opens and
closes it's op amp every time speech starts and stops, so I<BR>>>
wouldn't recommend using it with speech unless nothing else
works.<BR>>><BR>>> What's this "internal driver" thing all about?
I don't understand this<BR>>>
terminology.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> On 1/23/2014 10:36 AM, Indigo
wrote:<BR>>>> I just tested with my $10 thumb drive sized USB device,
and the Asus<BR>>>> Xonar soundcard is definitely failing to provide
speech, when the little<BR>>>> USB device does work for
speech.<BR>>>> I'm wondering if the Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 has
its own internal USB<BR>>>> drivers, or does it use the Microsoft
Generic USB Audio Driver?<BR>>>> The little $10 USB device really has
independent internal drivers, so<BR>>>> sometimes will work at very
low computer levels, when nothing else would<BR>>>> provide
speech.<BR>>>> It's just crude sounding, and invariably comes on at
ear-splitting<BR>>>> volume.<BR>>>> The $30 Behringer
U-CONTROL UCA222 at least has its own headphone volume<BR>>>>
control, and claims high quality ad/da converters.<BR>>>> I wouldn't
expect those to be fantastic, but if it'll be totally<BR>>>> reliable
for hardware speech, it'll do.<BR>>>> So, my only concern is whether
the U-CONTROL UCA222 has its own internal<BR>>>> drivers or uses the
default MS generic USB audio driver?<BR>>>> Thanks for any
help,<BR>>>> Indi<BR>>>><BR>>>>
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