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«  Really for beginners! Provide a good hardware configuration. »

Published on 09/12/12 at 19:52
I'd buy this little machine to get lower latency and also to discover at the time, recording with a microphone.

It also motivated me was the connection by USB, all digital anything, something that would make my job easier and with less breath.

UTILIZATION

The installation went without problems for me, although I have seemed long.
Regarding updates to drivers in 3 years I do not see any change.

Now move on to the problem:

Since my purchase I run the install and try it directly and big crunches big surprise or even audio processor overhead.
I stay calm, change hard disk with Windows brand new
reinstall everything.
The I a little better, but pushing the lowest latency, you can not go below 256 ms without big cracks.
I must content myself with a 512 ms 1024 ms project lean and with a more consistent.
Result to make a recording with a guitar amp simulator must not only activate it with just a metronome to stall and play with better latency.
For me it was doable but a colleague with whom I started producing it has been more difficult.
In addition I changed my computer from a small Asus with whom I can walk when I'm not in the studio and compose the tascam Well I am no longer of any use, I said, I can with the sound card in my computer to get a latency up to 256 ms, whereas with the tascam 512ms is already finished for him.
I think I must still be a big setup in order to enjoy a decent latency.

Another test:
My ear and my equipment is evolved from my years of practice and it is that I wanted to use the tascam to record a music concert Reunion.
Basically I made up all my equipment balances all the settings, and then I plug one of the dual outputs of the mixer to the XLR inputs tascam
and I understand the quality of the preamps and converters, big loss of low frequencies, heat well attenuated but not breathing why he is doing well.
The headphone output is a bad quality that it also pushes the gain, treble distorted coming for you gun down the ear.

GETTING STARTED

I returned to the driver of this sound card is not really "adjustable"
On to the choice between 1024 512 256 128 96 ms if I'm not mistaken on the latter.
So you'll understand if problm in low latency bin you switch to a large latency.

OVERALL OPINION

Used for more than 3 years he has rendered great service and allowed me to record my own Compos guitar and started producing other artists.
For the beginning I thought it was great because it there's still quality but to experience it the more you realize what was in his hands.
I do not have that choice again if I had to leave such a product there must be much better.
However, it is highly portable and self-powered so it can be used in full secondhand.
I added that was sold with Cubase 4 so it was a small matter anyway.