Guitarist living in an apartment, I was looking for a way to record my guitar without having to go through the amp. The microphone inputs are for me to record a song.

I use a sony vaio, i5 dual core 2.27ghz, 4gb ram, windows 7 64bit.
I use reaper in daw.
I used the ux2 with esp eclipse, and rode a NT1A sm57.
In monitoring, I have deluxe BX8a.

UTILIZATION

The drivers are not updated for over a year. My ux2 jumps regularly. Conflict with the wireless card, crunches. I regularly have to restart the computer to reset the card, because it comes back more after re-connection when a bug.
Regarding latency, with pod farm there is virtually no. With Guitar Rig, must be reduced a little buffer, or use asio for all.
It should not be used to listen to music or play a game and enjoy its monitoring speakers: this train, this bug, it cracks.
I read a couple of tracks simultaneously, but I had at the time no musical project necessarily going beyond. I never tested the simultaneous recording.
on the other hand for recording microphones (I have a sm57 and a rode NT1A) must push the gain knobs virtually background. I sometimes even replaying a virtual pre amp to boost the signal. Is this specific to my model getting tired?

GETTING STARTED

The installation was no problem, following the instructions.
I have not met incompatibility.
I had trouble using it. The pod farm software is very intuitive.

OVERALL OPINION

I used this card for three years. Purchased used, it begins to show signs of major weakness. The knobs are very cheaps and crack regularly. I do not regret my choice at the time.
I love its ease of use, numerous connectors, low latency.
I do not like his lack of stability, plastoc side not very reassuring, low pre-amp XLR inputs.
I find it still a bit expensive compared to other current cards (although there are also software with pod farm).