All user reviews for the Edirol UA-25

MIDI, no XLR, 24bit 96khz sample rate, output jack or RCA (practice), its simple and convenient card priori ...

USE

So I've had drivers galleys repeatedly but in fact I especially think we imprativement know one thing: put the advance mode ON if you are on windows !!! This small Dtail obliged me pull me many times the hair, and sometimes threw me in the shit in live performance ...

Apart from this, since it works without fuss, I can dbrancher / reconnect easily, windows finds her alone.

IMPLEMENTATION

I never managed to record with. It is a mystery and frankly a damn m'enerve. I have tried EVERYTHING. So I recorded with my internal sound card ....

Level latency me a acceptable air but do not over rely on for processing live ...

It seems to record a stro track (so TFW 2 mono tracks) but hey, since in 3 years I have not managed to save it with ...

Noon is 100% OK.

NOTICE GLOBAL

So did three years, and I do not know when appeared a constant grsillement damn !!!! It's amazing and only if the card is for the branch grsillement blast appears in the mix table. It is quite small but for me it is good for the Introduced trash.

Maybe it's due to the fact that I have often carries (rather good deals yet it solid but good air ..). In short unreliable.
IN CONCLUSION: A low-end card my taste. An interesting prices and good sound but its reliability leaves completely be desired. 3 years after I was obliged to change it. I have a friend who has the same and which has also galleys. In my opinion, it is better to invest in something beefier, it's more economical ...

Having foolishly burnt my Edirol UA20, I bought it to replace, especially for XLR inputs.
I used to save a little bit of everything (guitar, keyboards, vocals, sound effects). it found itself with a guitar input, a SM58 placed before a mouth or a guitar amp cabinet, condenser microphones, a keyboard output, etc.. I also have misused the midi input to connect a keyboard master.

UTILIZATION

Software side, I've never had a problem. Asio drivers had no audible latency (5 ms Tracktion told me). I recorded still 16bit 44KHz, so that I could record in stereo while having the sound from the computer back (which is not possible in 96 KHz, the card only works in one direction both, either by reading or recording).
on the other hand, black spot: a big interference clearly audible in the main output. This was due to the grounding and, in fact, using it on a laptop on battery power, the problem disappeared. Making in practice, the main output was not usable and had to settle for the headphone jack (!). There was a way around the problem by not connecting the PC to the earth, I am not too risky to do over the long term ...

GETTING STARTED

Install the driver, plug in the sound card. Everything worked nickel the first time. As I said earlier, the only "incompatibility" that I met was electric. At the software level, no problem.
I do not remember having read a lot of the manual. Everything is marked on the map itself.

OVERALL OPINION

I used it for two or three years (I bought a firewire multimix after, just to get the card directly integrated into the mixing desk). I had the UA20 before, but have not really tried other models at the time.

Without this interference problem, this card would have been perfect. Not very expensive, and with everything I needed (XLR inputs, phantom power, input-output noon). But here goes. To minimize interference, I can connect the headphones to the mixer, then find a point of balance on the volume of said headphone jack (too low or too high, the increased interference) and compensate Following the table itself.
It's a shame ...

Very complete! I chose it for its special features (stereo input jack or XLR stereo output, midi, headphones, ...)

UTILIZATION

Used for recording on the fly, or when traveling (because it is very small and light). She has always fulfilled its role. I have stopped to use that when I bought a card with more inputs / outputs.

GETTING STARTED

Archi simple and intuitive, I think I've never read the manual

OVERALL OPINION

This is a great little machine! It's quite simple: despite the fact that I no longer use, I can not get rid of it as may be convenient!

I recommend it to anyone looking for a small sound card (for recording guitar and voice, for example).

Hello,
The Edirol UA 25 Sound Card was offered to me because I do a lot of records.
I use it especially for the sound of conferences, but also to catch live musical groups.
It is connected to my Mac and works great, the aillant used on Windows XP PC.

UTILIZATION

The drivers are very stable. The software used most often is Garage Band, in two simultaneous tracks, Left & Right.

GETTING STARTED

No worries about installation, general configuration is very simple.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it, more than five years. Before this card I did not, the experience with me if I will ever have to buy this choice, a very good price / quality ratio. It is compact and very robust as hardware, easy to use and convenient for transportation.

The Edirol UA 25 is a good usb audio interface for you to use at your home studio and setup. Or if you are the type of person who is on the go a lot your can take it with you almost anywhere because its not that big. I wouldn’t expect to get great quality from it though, its pretty much like a started audio interface. It will serve its purpose though but for more complex stuff it just wont cut it.


UTILIZATION

Never had any issues with it and never had to pick up a manual. Everything worked like it was suppose to and never froze up my computer or my program. I did experience some more lag with it than expected. Maybe its because I was use to using firewire interfaced and then jumping on my laptop with a usb interface was a problem. I am not too sure if that’s what it was or not.


GETTING STARTED

Is very easy to get started, but as I said before don’t think that you can get great quality from it. Even if you have a good mic you still wont be able to see its full potential using the Edirol UA 25. Not saying the UA 25 isn’t good because it is, its very affordable and compact I would recommend it to someone who is just getting into recording at home and needs somewhere to start. It will provide a good understand of how interfaces work. The Edirol UA 25 would be a good starter interface.


OVERALL OPINION

Overall, it does the job. I couldn’t see my self using it for to long though I just felt limited to the ability to only do some demo stuff. that’s why I got it though was just for that reason. I didn’t expect much more. If you are looking for a smaller interface that will give you a better quality you can look into the Mbox line of products. They are small compact but better than this. Overall, still good.

I needed a simple interface that is not the first prize. I stay on the left M-Audio and Edirol and then testing the Mac, I found it simple and effective.
I use a Mac and all types of instruments: Clavia Nord, Rhodes, Bass, Vocals, Talk Box, Micros.

UTILIZATION

Drivers stable latency OK, easy config.
It is simple to use and yet I hate computer music but I must admit that this interface has convinced me and I learned, intuitively, to make use of such equipment.

GETTING STARTED

Installs without problems on Mac. Frankly, there is not really need the manual. unless you want to use special features: compressor ...
Honestly, compressor and limiter are not great. Considering the price we would have suspected ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for over two years. It's solid, I took with me in concert and on vacation. It's solid. In addition, she also serves as an interface with my USB keyboard when I want to program the sounds from my computer (and not via menus, sub menus and sub menus in under keyboards including Roland)

To summarize: a simple and strong with perfect sound good (no major deformation or processing also improves the sound). The sound is consistent with the sound.

Professionals, go your way. Lovers on a budget: it's very good

The Edirol UA-25 is an audio interface that has two microphone preamps and can record two tracks at once. In addition to the mic pres, it has two 1/4 inch inputs as well as eight 1/4 inch line outputs. I have run the Edirol UA-25 on a Mac Book Pro that has a 2.2 Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM and have run it with an M-Powered version of Pro Tools.


UTILIZATION

With the UA 25 you are able to record two tracks simultaneously no matter if you'd like to use the mic preamps or the 1/4 inch connections. I haven't had any latency issues with this interface, but with these type of firewire interfaces this really has more to do with your computer than the audio interface itself. The preamps are decent sounding, but are definitely nothing to write home about.


GETTING STARTED

This audio interface has always run pretty smoothly for as long as I have used it as I've never had any real issues with it. I only use this interface when I want to record on the go and can't bring my whole set up, so I don't use it all the time. The make up of the Edirol UA-25 isn't complicated at all as all of the knobs and buttons are laid out well and easy to find. The features include the basic controls including gain knobs for the preamps as well as a pad for each and a mic/line toggle buttons. It also has two 1/4 inch headphones outputs and an assignable level control section. The manual for the Edirol UA-25 is complete and thorough and while I never had much use for it, if you are a beginner and this is your first audio interface, I would definitely recommend having it around.


OVERALL OPINION


I've had the Edirol UA-25 for about a year and I use it as a supplement to my Pro Tools rig so I can bring it around if I need to record on the go. It is a very reasonably priced audio interface and it is nice to be able to run it with some sort of version of Pro Tools, even if it isn't LE or HD. This is really a perfect audio interface for the user who wants something cheap to get some ideas down or to get their feet wet with recording. This isn't the most well made piece of gear out there, but it gets the job done at a cheap price that makes it a viable option for people with all budgets.

I have bought this card because I was going on TOM and my echo indigo from home does not work with my new laptop, an HP ZD7112, this choice was motivated by the USB 2 and 24/96, I ' mainly used for VSTI with Cubase SX, my laptop is a 2.8 GHz with 1GB of RAM and a 60GB of your HD has 7200 turns, until the I have no problem

UTILIZATION

Installation is very simple, and this card is very fluid with SX, I have not even opened the manual!

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable, the integration ds SX is nickel, the latency is adjustable according to fequences!
can be reduced to if we want 0ms me but hey I work with 10 ms and it is very stable! dynamics is exellent, no breath out as much on the phone, the advantage of usb2 is that you can record and play at the same time which is far from negligible

OVERALL OPINION

Ceal is now 3 months I work with and I find still great, she did not default yet, if you are looking for a pro card not very expensive and although I advise you without any hesitation, good and well I lets you and all good music!

All in one: audio, midi, S / PDIF, to walk around with my laptop and do some recordings on the go. A priori, it is easier than my Quattro with only line inputs and an external power supply.

On that side, it is served. It's perfect, even the phantom power is integrated, USB-powered!

UTILIZATION

Drivers toddlers and automatically switch ASIO2/MME used under W98 and W2000, great, very simple and effective.

GETTING STARTED

I thought, USB-powered, 5V/480mA to power it all, anyway ... audio, mic preamps, it's going to the bazaar ... Well yes, the entries are not really silent, a regular sound and quite high up probably from 5/48V Converter and especially the 5V USB power supply is still rotten just tickle the meters as software that you go up a little gain inputs. It's a sound "computer", regular pulses at high frequency, very different on my UA-25 in any case, channel between D and G. Moreover, the S / B input is not specified by the manufacturer.
Well, that's not bad, and sufficient for most applications, eh! The Quattro, for comparison, varies within + / - 1 bit, sometimes two (wireless connected) is -90/-84dB, right?

This is the price for lack of food, I think.

EDIT 13/12:
Friday I made a recording of kids singing in a primary school notebook, UA-25 and a pair of NT1-A. Ben is nickel, perfect, the hair. Gain half (mics have a lot of fishing) is little background noise, the two microphones powered by the 48V, the sound is clear. Long live the UA-25 and I pass the note to 8.

OVERALL OPINION

I have this interface for several days, it's simple, portable, self-contained, reasonably priced, comprehensive and effective.

I'm happy with this purchase but I keep the Quattro for serious work in analog. The UA-25 will do what I bought: I / O fiber and mobility.

Strength of the UA25 is a box to make music all in one. I do not see what it lacks. The 96kHz Full Duplex, certainly, but I am not useful, and then we can not ask anything USB.
I connect a MIDI keyboard, guitar, bass, microphone, etc ... md. It's really convenient.

UTILIZATION

Installation in 2 minutes.
The manual is practically useless, use is very simple.
Too bad we can not change the chantillonage or size of buffers in software.

GETTING STARTED

No problem with the drivers yet. Tt it is still there for an update.
To beginners, I was afraid that there are too latency. APRS to finally connect a MIDI keyboard, I could see that with m'aperce vsti, there was no problem. The latency does not impede, but I can do better qu'Edirol sr. For audio, trs direct monitoring work well, it is convenient.
I have not had a problem of stability.

OVERALL OPINION

The problem of this card is the whistling of the power supply via USB is meant ds you push a little pramplis. Registration is Gnant microphone. Are the new drivers may resolve this issue? ... Too bad, it's the only downside. So, I can not get full marks despite his other qualities.
Put a hand, the Edirol UA25 is trs trs well from all angles. I use it for 3 months at beginners I was not what was needed to test it, but I quickly reassured trs t ds I could plug in keyboard noon, instruments ... etc..
In my case, to save my models without prtentions there all you need. For the price it's pretty amazing.
I bought this card in Japan, cheap ds it was released. If I had not had this opportunity, I can be expected and I would look at the BCA Berhinger 2000.

The price of this card is RAPORT resonance to the quality that she developer.
I m used almost every day on an Athlon XP 2400 +, 1.99G, 512 DDR.
J uses Cubase SX2 with PCR30 midi keyboard, guitars, bass, SamplingPad Roland Spd-s, and singing.
I don not use the taken mido, preferring the usb.

UTILIZATION

Very simple to install and use, c is a strong point of this card, which has a record (as almost all products EDIROL) more than mediocre.
Indeed, the record n ​​is not at all clear. I haven t AIM that, in the instructions FRENCH, when they had us back to another page for setting accuracy, ect, the page board is in English.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers have the m looks pretty stable. The only Plantades that I have got a t after multiple manipulations between vst (by noon). It must be the driver who could in no more. N etan not come on this card, I would ignore n in my notes ...

OVERALL OPINION

I used the last few months.
J loves his usb2, with all its compatibilitee material that I used the pramp integr.
I don not like the background of grizouilly certainly al pramp USB or cranked. (I should invest in can be an amp, which I would turn down the volume of the preamp input.

U ride on Audiofanzine to see the reviews, and my choice seemed to focus on the sound card drivers to the stable, what mattered above all.
I use it for live concert or any crash is permissible.
it is connected to a Dell 510 via a USB2.0 PCMCIA card because the dell is suffering from a problem on its dcroche the USB hardware on the port after a while. With the card, no problem.

UTILIZATION

Installation was made of fawn classic. But on my laptop, no way to run the MIDI interface.
Advences same position, nothing. So I tried on my desktop. T he works without problem. A Premire view, it should be a conflict with another Roland drivers I use, srial an output for an expander. Otherwise, I see it, but I dig ....

It is a pain in the ass to have to restart the sound card to change frequency drives to chantillonage during the CANCEIS, it is better vrifier to Get You Started rglages before the computer, otherwise redmarrage is still the best.

The manual is lightweight, and English, we had Edirol abitu better.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers seem stable. In Sonar 4, 9ms in VST, 12 ms and 30 ms in WDM MME.
This is version 1.0. may be a future version MIDI solve the problem??

the number of prste I use for my application is limited (no more than 8), so no opinion on this point, with 8 tracks, no BLME.

OVERALL OPINION

I like its construction in alluvial, its output 4 dB, the limiter in between.
weird noise is heard when using the microphones pramplis empty, thankfully disappeared when connecting a microphone. weakness in the diet??
the sound is trs good, no complaints, even in 16 bits.
It nssssite to have a good usb port, if necessary, a team Do not hesitate to your hardware with a USB port ddi you will not regret it. Avoid HUBS (berk!).

The ratio quality price is honorable, nothing more, but I confaince in hardware.
I do not regret this purchase.

What motivated my choice was the simplicity and phantom power supply.

UTILIZATION

Trouble free installation.

The manual? where?

GETTING STARTED

I use it for anything that works that is mainly because the audio with the South, I have big problems of recognition.

I have a laptop OS X Software - Logic Express - Roland FP2 and small M-Audio.

When I connect via USB, the South is recognized, but with the Roland I have terrible problems of loops. Not yet found where it was coming, because the M-audio is OK, but the M-audio do not generate sounds, this explains that.

on the other hand, if I connect via cables noon, so there .... it nothing happens, no signal with any of the two keyboards. My system does nothing, no sound, even with sound internal logic.

I give up note for the moment (beeen no, it does not work not to note), until we have understood (it is still 3 to widen the head, including a sound engineer specialist Hard LOL).

OVERALL OPINION

The use since February 2005 I think. But it has meanwhile been changed by the supplier for the first time due to a malfunction.

I do not know if I would do this to understand why choices before twelve o'clock the wiring does not work, whether it comes from Edirol, a conflict or a configuration problem of soft.

Corriya

Updated 29.10.2005
After making contact with the mail technical support Edirol France, I reloaded the new driver on the site that contains the "advance" because apparently the driver had not original.

Now the MIDI cabling works, I signal, hurray!

My contact at Edirol proved available, effective, fast and very courteous. Bravo!

I still have to solve the problem of loop ... that does not necessarily come from the Edirol, but the keyboard or the system.

I wished that interface because it allows the instruments connected easily and I have used. external interfaces that allow this kind of connection and has a preamp are rare ...
I use it to record voice and guitar primarily on a P4 computer everything is normal.
I plug in or jack6.35 xlr and wants to put me on the south

UTILIZATION

Instalation problem with Windows XP without
I feel for my computer against my plants a little more often because of an error ... just an impression ... can be!
the manual is well

GETTING STARTED

Two tracks at once while walking with a good memory RAM

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months and always runs except for MIDI ... but how to listen, your MIDI with this camera ..., including the point but it's still a fairly significant downside
over the device produces a kind of hissing sound ... yours yours

Usb sound card, easy connection, transportable in the back pocket of jeans lol.
use home studio, recording guitar, bass, vocals, percussion ...
amd 2200 +, motherboard asrock k7s8x, 512 (or 768 I can not remember at the time of testing) of RAM, two 120GB hard drives and 80GB.

UTILIZATION

Deactivation in the bios of the 97 ac.
installation of drivers (Windows window warned that drivers are not ign by microsoft, who cares we continue), reboot.
branches of the map and hop it works.
opening of Cool Edit Pro 2, selection of the card and hop it works.

GETTING STARTED

Drivers very stable (surprising for a USB card ... especially with my motherboard which apparently is not known for south and north b b SIS can screw up any time of the great problem asrock)
Software: Cool Edit Pro (ultra stable for audio), sonar and cubase sx 3 (which show a dead ca food all resources).
latency javais between 5 and 10 ms, jai not really trying to push real-time effects.
I reopened the old mini projects with 25 tracks ... frills while recording to see if it works and it works.

OVERALL OPINION

Test a weekend.
USB connection, cest nice enough.
I never tried Navais usb card, and frankly I am still on the ass. So I think u opt for 1000, because the firewire and pci, ca me severe swelling, there is always something that goes wrong, the nose more in programs and in the computer as his instrument.

report quality price: 235 euros .... ben the quality OK, but I do not know the price, I'll say "mitigquot;, ca 199 euro would do even more, because given the number of models that are ...
Finally cest already good for people who want good material with such ease of use ... If I only had a record two tracks I would have taken that card, but as a battery sound to jai ... I have to break the bank.

A guitar, a microphone, a MIDI keyboard and a new laptop (P4 2.13 GHz, 1G of memory 100 GB HDD). Before I had a PIII 800 with a Maya 44. So I falait an external card with MIDI and low latency DXi or VSTi for. Firewire is not on my new laptop

UTILIZATION

Install nickel. I respect what it says in the doc. Two or three avrifier system settings before installing. In short you just read the installation page. Installation in 2 minutes flat. On the other cot so I informatitien this point did not make me scared

GETTING STARTED

No problem until now. I set my ASIO in Sonar and "latency" is between 6.5 and 9 ms with full DXi. I have not had a test the "limit" but I have much less noise than my config Previous MT3X of a Yamaha mixer. I do not have the problem of ground noise not meet certain other users. No SIFL. Nickel

OVERALL OPINION

I have used two weeks. I love the simplicity. Once the level of rgl I do not touch at all. Lev is a bit in my opinion related quality aluminum housing prices but is reassuring.

I chose this card to be able to register on bass.
I use it regularly with Cubase SE3 and Reason 2.5 Rewire in and there's no prob, the map follows.
Config level, I work with an Asus P5 GDI, Pentium 4 processor, 280 GB on two hard drives, 512 MB ram.Mon computer is dedicated to the zic so there's no prob, I have about 12ms of latency with my 2Apply, there's probably way to push but it works well so I still like that.

UTILIZATION

Installation level, thank you people of Edirol manual for all in English and very large simpliste.En this manual is useless and not used, must traduire.Fauuse note for the AU-25.
For installation, the USB connection simplifies things is like a device that installe.Faut just remember to disable the sound card in the original bios and after, it follows tt one ..
Configuration level, well it's simple, no y 'and that's unfortunate ..

GETTING STARTED

For my records down, I was surprised at the quality of those ci.Pour a map of this range is very correct.A note background noise when no significant rises too much preamp.
I find the preamps too puissants.je am always forced to reboost I took in low Cubase.Mais I plug my bass in direct.L use an amplifier between my bass and the UA-25 would solve the problem (the preamp output of my amp is dead so I can not do like that ...)
The limit, it is not much, it sounds a little haphazardly and we regret the abscence of adjustment on it ...
At the recording, I usually read a dozen tracks with most in Reason 2.5 and all that happens in Cubase SE3 Rewire and it works in nickel

OVERALL OPINION

I, unwanted since November 2005 and overall, I am rather pleased with my achat.Pour a map of this range, it has a more than adequate (as long as you configure your PC and its software). There are a lot of options that are more attractive to that to be effective as the limit.
The Regleg the sampling rate, I wish I had more information because it works too but the manual is almost useless and inexplicit.
Basically, the UA-25 is a good card but with some surprise that we would not expect from Edirol and price level in the € 235, you pay as the brand, it's still a little expensive for my taste ..

I chose this interface for its ease of transport, to catch his live with a couple of KM-184. At "portabilitquot and I must say I am satisfied.
Cot config:
IBM ThinkPad R40 laptop
CPU centrino
512 MB RAM
OS: Win XP / Linux Fedora Core 3

UTILIZATION

Install level
Windows: I have simple not even open the manual, the card is not recognized OS.
Linux: has become very complicated. as is often the usb is not the height of linux and manufacturer (edirol in this case) are not free port on the trs. To date I have run the Russian map more or less under a free OS.

GETTING STARTED

Began to be the least gratifying: the driver windows is moderately stable home. I have to reinstall the average once every six months.
Another major problem if not to emphasize: There is a small frequency constantly running to 13,000 Hz, which means the record! I think it's the power of the card via usb.
Personally I take always this little trick of all my recording with a filter but it is even a little sad qd ...
For the rest of this material should I use ready-made: taking the couple's Cubase SX.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this card from ending for two years and his j'aprcie ct easy to use and portable. I very much regret this inconvenience and the small frequency driver that is not a great stability of MODEL.
Otherwise report qualitprix level I think this material is worthwhile, but you can now make better choices as given the market developments.

Characteristics that motivated my choice is simple, at first I wanted the TASCAM US-122 and the seller told me that he n '(and that were more than a ct discontinued. And that's my advice to in quality is superior at good prices.

My purpose is that of computer music, recording my guitar and my MIDI synth.

My config: HP laptop (P4 3GHz, 80GB + 120GB external, 512MB RAM).

bah the instrument are clabier noon, guitar and bass, and microphone singing.

UTILIZATION

Installation is no problem in XP
For now it is the only incomptaibilité reading MIDI files with VLC when the MIDI out through the sound card.
Configuration is done easily in the Control Panel, then in the SOUND menu.
The manual is clear, in French, but the downside is that the manual does not explain clearly how to make Windows rules out the sound from the map.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable.
the update, I do not know.
I use SONAR LE that comes with, and winamppour the audio and midi
For the latency, I have never tested
To track the number of simultaneous I have not been tested for HIV.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 4 days.
I like the special is the integrated limit, the least it came with the separate channels.

My config: Acer, Win XP, 512MB, 1.5 Ghz

the technical characteristics of the beast is well detailed in the instructions and on the site, I am satisfied with the product bine according to my expectations.

I bought it and never be required to go through the sound card integrated on my laptop desatreuse notament output. The sound is good and there is no breath (except qand potentiometers are thoroughly but in any case too hard to be heard at that level).

This card allows me to record with no latency and full duplex two runs in both 48 and 44.1 without problems. Besides I have not tested.

By noon, no problem, even if it seems to me that the latency is still a tad too much (that means it is not enough reagent for a keyboard for my taste) but no more playable.

UTILIZATION

Installation without problems. I had been embarrassed by the M-audio is to reinstall windows every ignition grrr. here is impeccable.

the manual is clear, though I only had the English version.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable but have not yet updated.

I tested it with cubase and live, no problems.

OVERALL OPINION

I recently but I was able to test it according to my needs.

I like:
the fact that there have no additional power supply (good for travel)
the phantom power supply, ergonomics and robustness, its characteristics and its price on the opportunity (paid € 100)

I do not like:
Latency too high for my taste for MIDI.

I bought it for its convenience and the fact qu'Edirol is a sub-brand of Roland.
I use it on my pc fixed and especially with my laptop to be mobile to make the recording.

I used it in every possible configuration (direct, DI, unwanted, using the preamp in console output ...)

UTILIZATION

I had no desire to install on every PC on which I could install it.

For the manual I did not have to use it when you know what type of sound card operation is obvious.

GETTING STARTED

The drivers are stable usually I did not have to worry

For the latency was 14 ms with the basic setup. We can bring it down by changing the audio buffer size but beware of cracking read.

I use it mainly with cubase VST32

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for two years.
Despite its convenience this card is a gas plant!
By supplying usb there is interference on the outputs and inputs. The headphones also ....
The preamp send a blast unacceptable when the gain is increased to more than half (and I'm nice ...)
The preamp sounds and colors notament the return of low frequency.
The momentum is definitely not respected!!
Caution should consider purchasing it knowingly ... At that price it is rare to get something decent. That's why I put one and not zero.

I was forced by financial problems to fall back on this model and I regret every time I record ...

If you must purchase act knowingly ... If you have no concern for budget, will see more brands such as rm ....

The product all in one: I / O symmetric optical I / O, RCA outputs, Midi, monitoring mono XLR input.
all for one price.
Usage: computer music with Reason on the PC, some taken his microphone. (Phantom power supply in case one day I invest in a microphone)
Config: Dell Inspiron 9200, centrino 2Ghz, 1GB RAM
A Roland D20 I use as a midi keyboard + Evolution UC33

UTILIZATION

Install without any problems. It's not the usb 2 because I also used an old portable USB 1 (Pentium II 300 Mhz, 192MB and it works! To watch a movie ... only of course )
No compatibility problem, almost non-existent config (apart from the choice of sampling freq). Driver a little stingy when compared to the possibilities of an m-audio driver
Was a manual?
A little annoying to have to disconnect to change freq sampling ...

GETTING STARTED

No problem driver and when it works better not change.
I use Reason and Sound Forge essentially. 9ms latency in Reason, for it goes up against with Rebirth to 25ms

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a month. I bought it because I had crackling in my monitor ... I hum coming from the trainer on the forums to find the AF economic solution is to forget the earth for my laptop, but hey I'm sorry I have not a "real" sound card.
on the other hand where I was really disappointed is when I preview that you could not cut the sound output without cutting the headphone output: the coup that I had to hack through an external amplifier to to mute the monitors when I record the microphone: no top at all. My next card will have a separate adjustment of the overall output level and the headphone. Otherwise the function is useful for single monitor in mono microphone 2 ears of the headphone.
Sound quality is no problem, obviously, there's no wind, unless you push the volumes of admission to the bottom, where it hisses slightly.
It's still an amateur card, maybe a bit expensive as a result, and to be completed by a small table to manage the sound output and headphones independently.
I do not have that choice would do, but I do not regret either. Hmm not sure it helps that
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On 19/03/2007: SAV back under warranty. I got tired of whistling to the recording (peak to 13000Hz) and global, in fact, from the lighting of the card, the electronic whistle. After contact with Edirol (fast and serious) they told me it was a known problem (and solved on old today) and need repair. Back then, in Playback (my provider), then wait (long: 2 months). I just started to say that I found Playback waiting a bit long and the next day they sent me backing me answer a new UA25 their own stock, and that I wanted to say here: super happy with the SAV backing for the coup. Okay, verdict: If I had known, it's 18 months I should return it. No more hiss, even input amp cranked. I'm happy!