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Re: Zoom H4 for laptop looping
Yes, of course. By writing "the dedicated software drivers" I meant
the "H4 ASIO Driver Version 1.0.0.1". AFAIK there are no other
drivers for H4 (I tried ASIO4ALL but it did not detect the hardware,
but on Mac the OS X took care of it right away, although still with
tiny audio artifacts) . I'm hoping an update to the ASIO driver is
due soon... ;-)
per
On 10 nov 2006, at 02.22, Joshua Carroll wrote:
> Ha! Very cool.
>
> Did you download the ASIO driver for it? I've not had any problems
> getting a great sound as an interface via ASIO...
>
> --Josh
>
>
>
> Per Boysen wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:06:16 -0600
>>
>>> Just thought I'd throw out a plug for the new Zoom H4. It works
>>> as a great 2x2 audio interface for Mobius (it has some built-in
>>> effects I haven't tried yet, but will work in audio-interface
>>> mode), and the other features make it ideal for collecting found-
>>> sounds or putting together rough song ideas on the fly. The
>>> built-in stereo condenser mic has really impressed me so far. I
>>> expected it to pretty much suck for the price, but I've been
>>> getting some excellent acoustic guitar recordings with it.
>>>
>>> Anyway, for the price, I'm really happy, so I thought I'd pass it
>>> along.
>>>
>>> --Josh
>>
>>
>> Someone posted and asked about latency. I just picked one up this
>> morning to check out, and may have some information to share.
>> Regarding the option to use the H4 as an audio interface the
>> software drivers are bad news. So bad actually that I would rather
>> say that the H4 is not usable at all "as laptop sound card". I
>> tested it for hours and although I used the largest available
>> buffer I could not get a clean sound from it. Not on Mac with OS X
>> and not in Windows XP with the dedicated software drivers. I'm
>> glad I don't have to review it in a magazine because the marketing
>> of it is partly misleading.
>>
>> But the H4 is great for other purposes - just forget about that
>> audio interface dimension - like for example the stereo recording
>> and the effects. Good guitar sounds in there (Some people might
>> want to use it as a four track porta studio as well). H4 is also
>> awesome as a USB2 based SD card reader. And it rocks as a portable
>> field recorder. I like it so much that I decided to buy one as a
>> replacement for my old portable DAT recorder.
>>
>> And I did actually find a place for it in my laptop looping rig -
>> as a mic pre amp, merge box and input reverb unit :-) I feed the
>> H4 with one acoustic flute mic and one line level EWI synth
>> clarinet. Then I put a simple stereo cable from the H4 into the
>> PCMCIA sound card Echo Indigo i/o on my lappy. That's a minimal
>> set-up that sounds decently ok. Two instantly connected
>> instruments of which one is electric and can be used for heavily
>> distorted sounds that would not be possible with a microphone.
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>> www.looproom.com (international)
>> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
>> http://www.myspace.com/looproom