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Edirol UA-1000

USB audio interface from Edirol belonging to the UA series

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Published on 02/20/07 at 14:02
Value For Money : Excellent
I have long hesitated to buy the beast ...
I hesitated between the motu 828MKII, Aardvark Q10, RME Multiface, the Presonus Firestation and the Edirol UA-1000. I might add the Tascam FW1884, but I finally ruled out as too expensive and too ugly for my taste ...
The technical love me more attractive are the four preamps Dtd roland cut to high-end brand. If you look at the various sound cards that I have quoted more or less the same characteristics. The motu can use its 12 inputs + ADAT input, but only has 2 preamps (more are on the PC, the drivers are not necessarily fully optimized). The Q10 has failed to win the game with 8 input preamp, but its price is slightly higher and it uses a PCI slot. The RME despite having the best A / D converters, has no preamp, over the half-rack is not great. The presonus had everything to win, but the drivers are not developed for AMD, I gave up ... The Edirol UA-1000 is a is a good compromise between each of these cards are:

- 4 high-quality preamps (in this price range ...)
- The A / DD / A very good
- I / O ADAT
- E / SS / PDIF
- Headphone
- Guitar input
- Alim phantom
- MIDI I / O
- Based on 2 USB (480 Mb / s)
- Drivers very stable and efficient
- Up to 96KHz Sampling
- LED indication of output, signal / peak

I paid 890 euros in Space keyboard

I use it to record groups and config to drive home studio and record my Virus C.
My PC is an Athlon XP2500 + Barton on ASUS A7N8X motherboard, 512 MB RAM Corsair XSM400, Maxtor 80 GB HDD 8 MB cache 7200 Tr / m
I use Cubase SX2, Kontakt, for soft, and various microphones, guitar, Virus C in hardware.

UTILIZATION

Installation in 3 minutes flat, without any problem under Windows XP Pro ...
No conflict, even with the onboard sound card.
Setup made simple ultra 2 minutes (for all software Cubase SX2, Reason 2.5, Live 3).
The manual is in English, but personally, I did not open ...

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are perfect ... No crack or crash ...
I do not know if they are updated regularly, but because it works, I do not care ...
I mainly use Cubase SX2 with Kontakt, and Reason.
Inaudible latency direct monitoring. I guess less than 3 sec.
I'm already risen to 12 tracks + 4 read with recording effects without audible latency (48KHz) ...
To give an idea of ​​the performance of audio rates, I plug my guitar into a preamp, I run cubase, I use Amplitube VST + + chorus + reverb dynamics as an insert in cubase first on the track of the guitar. I go in after the volume of my guitar and I play. Plug-ins are applied in real time with no audible latency of the raw sound of the guitar. I do not need guitar amp ...
The MIDI performance are similar ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week, for 3 hours a day on average ...
My favorite is the side you plug nickel and it works the first time.
What I like least is the fact of not being able to simultaneously record analog and ADAT inputs (18 simultaneous tracks are they really useful for home recording?).
I think that is excellent value for money considering the quality of the preamps and converters.
There at least you do not pay for the brand, but the quality ...
One can add that in terms of design, it is a beautiful machine.
In conclusion, I would say that I do it again because this choice, I was really pleasantly above the exceptional quality of this interface, which I was not asking so much at first.

I add a few lines after 10 months of use.
This card is a gem! I have never had a problem, I recorded a simultaneous tracks of 10 batteries 48 KHz 24 bits (the 96 KHz no point to my eyes (ears)) with 15 tracks read smoothly and without lag ...
I add that the small features of the card that does not necessarily useful to take fast start to their importance. Buy it, it's a bomb!

Shift 3 years later ...
This card is really great, I recorded with many bands since, without ever having a problem. I always use with Cubase 4 and it works nickel especially given what this costs now;)