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Published on 10/28/07 at 08:08
I have chosen for its sound quality (24 bits/96kHz recording, 192kHz read with a good signal / noise ratio), the format box indpendant (less prone to interference, a map int gre) for its FireWire interface, and nice face.
First used with Windows XP SP1 and SP2, and Vista 32 bits. Also try with Vista 64 bit. I use 2 PC with successive (in both cases using the firewire connector to a motherboard MSI).
UTILIZATION
Dpend the ease of installation of the OS. Basically, and we need to know, Terratec has developed and test the card for Windows XP SP1. And that's all.
Under SP2, the problem is not so much from Terratec that Microsoft has made changes in its firewire drivers causing moult problem with these peripherals. Must Tlcharger patches (Microsoft) use the card to arrive, otherwise it will sound hach or no sound at all.
When installing the latest issue of drivers, the installer launches an update of the firmware of the card, which in my case a cabbage and let the map inoprante. It took me a fiddle in hand Relan the updater day (found in Program Files) to get out.
GETTING STARTED
Provided you have the correct firewire support (chipset + driver), no problem of stability. This n'tait unfortunately my case with my first PC. My new PC is much more stable in firewire, and sound card is better off.
Under Vista, the support provided by Terratec is lamentable: the drivers have six months out, it's still (one year out of APRS Vista) beta version, and if the sound drivers work, the panel CONTRL is inoprant (if your intresss I dvelopp a java version CONTRL panel that runs on Vista - send me a message).
The ASIO drivers work well (or even better than the WDM drivers), and offer more flexibility (you can choose the application to which channels send signals). We can get a latency of 5ms, but I RULES 15ms for more stability.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 3 years, and I am satisfied in sound quality, which my main proccupation silent.
But I'm not that I would do sr choosing the firewire bus as give difficulties encountered with it (pnibles rsoudre problem, either rsolus by updating the bios or by patches of operating system - the problem is that the problem tend rapparatre days each time the OS).
Regarding the monitoring of Terratec I trsdu: they crivent a driver out of the product, then it does take up more then (except out of the drivers remaining in the Eternal "beta" and I think tests are not same default yet seen some standards).
First used with Windows XP SP1 and SP2, and Vista 32 bits. Also try with Vista 64 bit. I use 2 PC with successive (in both cases using the firewire connector to a motherboard MSI).
UTILIZATION
Dpend the ease of installation of the OS. Basically, and we need to know, Terratec has developed and test the card for Windows XP SP1. And that's all.
Under SP2, the problem is not so much from Terratec that Microsoft has made changes in its firewire drivers causing moult problem with these peripherals. Must Tlcharger patches (Microsoft) use the card to arrive, otherwise it will sound hach or no sound at all.
When installing the latest issue of drivers, the installer launches an update of the firmware of the card, which in my case a cabbage and let the map inoprante. It took me a fiddle in hand Relan the updater day (found in Program Files) to get out.
GETTING STARTED
Provided you have the correct firewire support (chipset + driver), no problem of stability. This n'tait unfortunately my case with my first PC. My new PC is much more stable in firewire, and sound card is better off.
Under Vista, the support provided by Terratec is lamentable: the drivers have six months out, it's still (one year out of APRS Vista) beta version, and if the sound drivers work, the panel CONTRL is inoprant (if your intresss I dvelopp a java version CONTRL panel that runs on Vista - send me a message).
The ASIO drivers work well (or even better than the WDM drivers), and offer more flexibility (you can choose the application to which channels send signals). We can get a latency of 5ms, but I RULES 15ms for more stability.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 3 years, and I am satisfied in sound quality, which my main proccupation silent.
But I'm not that I would do sr choosing the firewire bus as give difficulties encountered with it (pnibles rsoudre problem, either rsolus by updating the bios or by patches of operating system - the problem is that the problem tend rapparatre days each time the OS).
Regarding the monitoring of Terratec I trsdu: they crivent a driver out of the product, then it does take up more then (except out of the drivers remaining in the Eternal "beta" and I think tests are not same default yet seen some standards).