All user reviews for the Hoontech DSP24+Rack externe Adda 2000

This card runs really well, never had any problems either, except for the fact that today's drivers do not evolve more. what a shame. but hey, that's life my dear sir o) I'll get rid of mine because my pc is under win7 and then the beast is no longer itilisable. If anyone is interested, I loose for 75 euros, with the card, the rack, the cable, the software and a hand remote settings if necessary ... it can avoid spending time searching for anything o)

UTILIZATION

I confirm that it is stable. I'm working with a good Cubase VST instruments and VST, no worries. minimum latency.

GETTING STARTED

the install is a blow to take, once we understand how it works, cabling, wiring strangely resembles a mixer finally o) is still less dying to lug virtual cables as true wiring o)

OVERALL OPINION

used since ... 6 years, with a master keyboard noon, very good value for money ... RAD '(Nothing to say: o) it lacks a new version Win7 damage, but the box mother who stopped the manufacture, more hope to have o (snifff

8 input jack
2 XLR
phantom power
Sound card external rack +

UTILIZATION

Asio driver / WDM stable and easy to find
I use Cubase SX, Nuendo or Cubase 5 and
Low latency

GETTING STARTED

This is the old config, the new PC without "pin" will not be compatible!
no USB
Facilitated by the connection config "style" analog in software

OVERALL OPINION

Hello,

Listen I have this card for 10 years now and I confess certainly be underutilized. I record mainly guitar and voice over that, she does it very well. I have the switcher inputs and six others while assigned to the first two.
We must have the correct driver (the last beginning to seriously date but is still easy to deal effectively with the latency (midi and audio)!

I used it with Cubase SX, 5, Nuendo, and a wealth of VST! it still works well and the settings and configuration as connecting "analog" in the software is very intuitive for the coup.

It's solid and you can add as many of rack you want.

Caution, when required, it is not usb, and you will have the good old pin behind your PC to Windows XP up.

I have a PC that is used only here and 10 years later, it still works thunder with my 2.5 GB of RAM. I never used the multitrack, so I can not tell you. But it is quite playable and with 2 XLR (Phantom) and 8 jack inputs and outputs you what to do if in addition you will added a mixer!

Voilou, I can tell you.

Works with XP on my old PC, which is in my opinion, priceless!

UTILIZATION

Everything works fine, windaube plant from time to time but not more than before the installation of the card!
In terms of latency, there is none and, as already said several AFIDES here, preamps are not devoid of breath. But hey, compared to the results of mixing of 70 years, they are enough for me very well. And that's in the hospital: when everything is too clean, you risk a nosocomial disease.
My table is 8 tracks, it's good, the rack has 8 inputs o) and all are recorded simultaneously. For technical data, I must ask the blaise who set me all that.

GETTING STARTED

It is not I who sweated on this one. It has a priori not pose major problems because "my expert" that I did down 2 beers.
The manual? What manual o)

OVERALL OPINION

I always bought these cards used, it is difficult to give an opinion on the quality / price ratio. It is always better than one who has offered the pack when it was worth 500 and a few euro. For me it is excellent!

Sound card 24-bit 96 kHz with 8 inputs / 8 analog + 32 MIDI channels + phantom power supply, etc ... A sound card to specific high allchantes!
I bought it in 1999, the era and was the only card less than 5000 francs 24/96 ...
There is support for the SPDIF but the AES / EBU, 2 XLR and 2 XLR Inputs pramplifies, volume 2 of the first installment, headphone volume.

Even today it is difficult to obtain such a dynamic card that price l. The inconvnient is that this card is not blind so you better have a good mix behind table: s

I use it for home recording, taken battery etc. ...
Cel works perfectly thanks to Sonar with WDM-KS (ASIO suprieur well with this card).
I have a P4 2.4 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB 7200 rpm disks 80.
I use both in audio (audio large projects with drums, bass, guitar, voice, etc ...) that afternoon with samplers and other external synths.

UTILIZATION

No problem for installation.

There are incompatibilities with some motherboards and especially with some VIA and SIS chipsets.

The setup is super easy with the provided utility and the manual explains the basics and configuration depending on the program used (sonar, cubase etc. ..)

GETTING STARTED

Despite mixed beginners, the last driver ESI is an incredible stability ... not a single bug or crash in a year in Sonar 4 ...

There have been many updates but I think the latest is the last to the delight of users because, I repeat, it is super stable!

In Sonar, I observe a latency of 2 ms (from 0 even in WDM-KS but may dcrochage).
I advise anyone with this card need to save up to 8 tracks and looking simultanment sound quality without breaking the bank!

I have plans with 20 audio tracks and the card does not move

OVERALL OPINION

Cel is 7 years that I use and what j'apprcie c the quality of sound!
The only default that I have found is that only the two first entries are pramplifies, the other 6 are not, so I am not 10/10

I had it before and guillemot cards on it day and night, I pass a toy really pro card (4 dB / -10 dB, AES / EBU etc ... )

The current price quality ratio is simply excellent!

If I had to buy a sound card, I would reiterate that the groin or maybe its the DSP 3000 that it contains a pramp per track.

- What characteristics have motivated your choice?
The 8 input 10 years ago it cost relatively expensive

- For what purpose?
Everything! at the beginning I used it to mix with MP3 BPM Studio and I left each track on a mix of output is different in a portal
then to use the effects loop mix I was coming out jack on the soundcard for multitrack recording now (who knows may be tomorrow to watch Star Wars in Dolby 7.1! LOL)

- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
PIV 3.2 EM64T
2GB RAM
2x SATA HDD 350Go

- Which instruments or the systems do you use? ...
All!

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?
If still some problem at the beginning of a drivers

- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
not for the moment

- The general configuration is easy?
With the correct version of drivers yes

- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Manuel? I know it's not lol

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?
Yes to hui Jourd

- Are they often updated?
anymore :-(

- What software do you use most often?
Cubase SX3 but occasionally Guitar Rig Groove Agent or any single

- What you get lag?
2ms

- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
8 tracks coming!

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
Pffff about 8 to 10 years

- What is so special that you like most and least?
As she walks and she estpas price! j more I realized there peus time than 48V power supply without transformer walking!
Ben j would have the least to try anyway but good PROTOOLS Tampa oP
There are only 8 tracks! lol

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
1 or 2 before but Max 4 tracks
j for some time have been able to test some 6 or 8 other tracks but still want Hoontech the road for a map of this age!

- How would you rate the quality / price?
Too good for my account Bauquis: oP

- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
with all the cards that there are on the market I think I would take a 16 or 24 track today but if I needed to Aug. 1 iensur I would do this choice!

cf. lower

UTILIZATION

cf. lower

GETTING STARTED

cf. lower

OVERALL OPINION

Let simple: for the price of opportunity, if you have a PC that runs XP, look no further this is the best Q / P and far away. Very stable, with a real MIDI interface (it runs a modular north without problem), enough inputs, etc..

The preamps are just adequate is the main drawback of the card, besides the fact that it has the drivers on XP and is very stable to SP 2. Ah, yes, it records with no latency and stable under 48khz / 24 bit, which I recall was the standard studio pros in the early 2000 - still not bad, obviously it is better now.

Newfoundland was the time when I bought what was best in its price range. I have 8 years I use it every day in Cubase and I basically have never regretted my purchase.

For 80 balls, used like 200 bullets and the config screen and complete with the bike There's really no better!

I bought this card when I was looking for a rack with a minimum of 8 inputs and 8 outputs and above that also allows me to route internally sound. Then I had an "old" Pentium IV with 2 GB of RAM and running under XP.

He had one hand that I can connect my two guitars and the 4 outputs of my Korg 01W / FD ... while plugging in 1 or 2 mics for vocals and especially the MIDI synth, which is not USB ... therefore Hoontech corresponded very well to this need.

I moved to test in-home studio for a day and sound, despite the preamp a bit weak, really appealed to me. It's clean, it's simple, it is flexible to use and most importantly, it is a manufacture any metal which does not move in time.

Currently, despite the fact that I upgrade my hardware (a Quad Core, a motherboard faster and more efficient, more RAM and of course Vista and Seven on Multiboot) I'm cnserve and serves as main rack with the MOTU 828 MKII FW that I recently acquired ... because my need for inputs increased with time.


UTILIZATION

Keeping the drivers, the latest version is very stable on XP and I have not yet been a problem with Vista, but many people have concerns with Vista ... So it must be admitted that only XP can say that they are stable.
On Seven, except once during a session of four hours, I never managed to turn the driver properly ... and I formatted, reinstalled dozens of times over a year ...

For my part, I use Reason (4 & 5) and Record (1.0 & 1.5) as the main sequencer, but I'm also comfortable with Cubase (SX3 and v5) and the card works without any trouble with all these software.

Whether for performance or its latency audio (48KHz-24bit 9ms/7ms in a buffer of 512) or whatever for my multitrack, this card is really one of the best purchases I made.

With my current PC, in session computer music (no TSR and related services without network) I can record up to 7 tracks with a few treatments VST not too heavy ...
If I log on "normal" Windows, I limit myself to max 5 tracks and it is not necessary that I waste VST ...

In VSTi softwares used by and under the sounds / samples used for each of them is highly variable. But as an example, I record 5 simultaneous tracks of good violins EWQL SO Platinum with all the microphones turned on ... my limit is due more to lack of RAM as the Hoontech itself.


GETTING STARTED

On installation, it is very easy under Windows and it should, however, a few hours to understand routing software Driver ... but once the virtual wiring included, we immediately see that the possibilities are enormous and most importantly, you learn quickly to manage multiple configurations.

The manual (in PDF) that is provided is very succinct, but does contain the essential ... nothing superfluous, as I like.

OVERALL OPINION

What attracted me in the Hoontech compared to other PCI cards + Rack (such as Delta or 1010th) is that even if power is not his strong She has really good preamps, converters very efficient and most importantly, its driver can work flexibly and this card is very easy to use in any software I've tested with.

I use it for almost 3 years ... every day. Having tried really many other interfaces, more efficient, more ergonomic, more powerful, more expensive, more "modern" ... the Hoontech remains a favorite and I can not bring myself to part with it ... that said, it really happens at the end of life with regard to its use "soft" because its driver is not updated for the new OS and never will ... But for those still running XP and have a small budget ... here is a semi-pro card that gives access to the computer music with high performance for a ridiculous price.

Personally, I would not hesitate one second to repeat this purchase and I prefer to limit myself to 3 GB of RAM running XP rather than having to change cards for daily use Seven and my 8 GB of RAM ... I think it sums up what I think of this map.