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Re: Low Lantecy Soundcard for Laptop Gig
I would second the recommendation for the Fireface 400. Allaround good
choice for preamps and IO route.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
> On 28 jul 2007, at 14.28, Sean Mormelo wrote:
>
>> I need a good soundcard so I can use my laptop running LIVE with Clips
>> to play with and use Mobius to loop over etc. I've got a Macbook Pro
>but
>> will use Live in Windows and I'd like the sound card to have at least
>4
>> outs. Any suggestions? Looking for somethig solid with low latency.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sean Mormelo
>
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> I have a RME FireFace 400 that works well under both OS X and Windows
>XP.
> This unit offers the best mic pre amps within that price range. Its big
> brother, the FireFace 800, has actually not that good built- in mic pre
> amps, but better AD convertors. That's because that product target a
>more
> pro oriented user type that typically has dedicated external mic pre
>amp
> that offers even better fidelity for analog input. I also have an Echo
> AudioFire2 that is about the cheapest you can go without buying crap.
> This also sounds good but doesn't offer good mic pre amps. I use mine
>for
> digital input. I can verify that it runs well with OS X but I have not
> used it with Windows (might be good there as well). I have another,
>older
> PCMCIA card from Echo, the Indigo i/o, but I would not like to
>recommend
> it because it doesn't sound as good as the other two (you said you need
> "a good soundcard" ;-)
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
>
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