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Edirol DA-2496

PCI/ISA + Rack Soundcard from Edirol

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Published on 02/22/06 at 05:47
I wanted to replace my 24/96 and my Terratec mixer phonic 1002 by a card while a quality and professional

AD 2496: 8 in / 8 out, including 2 XLR with Pramp and power supply, and two in for instrument (guitar / bass)
Connection to the PC via a PCI card, this is not the most practical, but by far the most efficient and reliable (the PCI card protools are not you?)
Floor analog and A / D and D / A in an external rack

UTILIZATION

My config: Athlon 1200 Ghz Via KT133 chipset, 512 MB Ram, 2 IDE HDD 60 GB and 80
Implementation
Trs simple installation (you have all the same a screwdriver to mount the pci card)
You can do an update driver available on the site of Edirol
Franais need for manual use is very simple

GETTING STARTED

No crash, the drivers are no longer being updated for a long time (2002) and we can not but rjouir.
I use Cubase SX3 and tons of VSTi, a good static micro (project B2 and Oktava Studio 012)
I get a low latency up to 2 ms, 4 ms, but I have more power. So excellent. This card is in CPU rev economy (even more than my TerraTec) although there have 4 times more e / s! thank you PCI
Map gre direct monitoring, but what's with such low latency? :-)

OVERALL OPINION

The quality of pramps trs trs is really good, even with the gain background there is almost no breath (with my static studio project B2 and my Oktava 012).

Very practical, too, the connection of the rear facing double front for four between micro and instruments. knob rglage for the gain for all inputs. Trs good headphones.

The case is strong and inspires confidence, the quality and advantages of analog conversions is really good, hard saturate trs, trs a good map.

Cons: not "stand alone", managing the routing not simple and not limit level indicators (just the presence of saturation)

Used (I got it for 350) this card is a matter because it is not known when she competes trs srement with a Motu 828 in terms of performance and quality of its (FireWire less ...). The high-end Roland (Edirol hours ...)