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rouflakess
Published on 11/18/08 at 04:28
What characteristics have motivated your choice?
8 microphone inputs, modeled preamps, while a kind of
for what purpose?
Studio, to no longer use my mixer too big, directly into the card.
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
ASUS P5Q, Intel QuadCore E6600, 2Gb Ram, 2x 500Gb HD
UTILIZATION
The installation is done it without problems?
not many problems, we must "authorize" the machine to be able to use plugins that are unique interest from the machine. Everyone knows that to make music on a PC it is better to avoid the Internet, more in my studio there is no internet, gold must be logged in to use the plugins the first time.
Technical support from line6 is nonexistent: a forum where GU (user friendly) receive good grades and virtual medals when they respond, allowing Line 6 not to deal with the media.
In a week's forum, I still have not managed to get the information they need to know: When can we allowed to use plugins on multiple machines.
Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
yes, crashes repeatedly, many "lock" of XP (the mouse blocked) which had never happened in XP. When you start eg Sound Forge and Cubase SX by the space bar, it takes 1 to 2 seconds before the music starts, and when it starts there is a strong digital noise.
After another unsuccessful week on this forum (in English, Line 6 purports to answer questions within 24 hours) which replaces technical support worthy of the name, (I had the right at all: it's Sony, it XP SP3, uninstall any need etc ...) a member of Line 6 has come to release the info: The UX 8 is incompatible with some motherboards that use chipsets and intel quadcore. The list of these chipsets is specified anywhere.
Line 6 knows this problem since early July, we are mid November and nothing has been done.
The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Manual? What manual?
GETTING STARTED
- The drivers are stable?
- Are they often updated?
not. see above.
- What software do you use most often?
Live, Cubase, Sound Forge, Vegas (8 UX does not work the last 3)
What you get lag?
At a minimum, that line calls 6 zero latency, there are a few milliseconds, enough to hear a disconnect between what you play and what is meant.
How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
when it does not crash, 8-registration
OVERALL OPINION
- How long have you use it?
I bought 2 months ago.
What is so special that you like most and least?
+: For 450 euros, you have a lovely dock door
-: Unstable beyond reality.
-: On the Line 6 site it says that Apogee converters are the same, perhaps, but the quality of a string is equal to the quality of the weakest link, and the weak are the mic preamps, of extremely poor quality. The gain does not provide a background quasimment not level, even recording a battery for example.
-: Non-existent technical support that uses the users to do their job. (English only)
-: The "zero latency" which means ...
-: Plugins: no shortcuts (eg arrow or + / - or customized) to access the presets, it is necessary to constantly open the presets via mouse, menu / sub menu / sub menu / list of presets, to access a preset, when you play an instrument is totally unusable.
-: Even turned off the engine warms up.
-: The buttons have a plastic look cheap immitation of the metal.
-: I have others but the biggest is said and should be enough to think twice before wasting their euros in the material below the whole competition
Have you tried many other models before buying it?
I zik of 25 years, sound cards I've seen happen, the more cheap for large models, this one breaks all records.
I wanted to replace my 2000 ESI to rid me of my mixer cumbersome, error. If It Is not broke, do not fix it.
How would you rate the quality / price?
If it works, preamps the preamplifier, the interface was used, then I would say "good" but then pointed to zero ...
With experience, you do again this choice? ...
and I'm not there to prevent that others do have.
8 microphone inputs, modeled preamps, while a kind of
for what purpose?
Studio, to no longer use my mixer too big, directly into the card.
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
ASUS P5Q, Intel QuadCore E6600, 2Gb Ram, 2x 500Gb HD
UTILIZATION
The installation is done it without problems?
not many problems, we must "authorize" the machine to be able to use plugins that are unique interest from the machine. Everyone knows that to make music on a PC it is better to avoid the Internet, more in my studio there is no internet, gold must be logged in to use the plugins the first time.
Technical support from line6 is nonexistent: a forum where GU (user friendly) receive good grades and virtual medals when they respond, allowing Line 6 not to deal with the media.
In a week's forum, I still have not managed to get the information they need to know: When can we allowed to use plugins on multiple machines.
Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
yes, crashes repeatedly, many "lock" of XP (the mouse blocked) which had never happened in XP. When you start eg Sound Forge and Cubase SX by the space bar, it takes 1 to 2 seconds before the music starts, and when it starts there is a strong digital noise.
After another unsuccessful week on this forum (in English, Line 6 purports to answer questions within 24 hours) which replaces technical support worthy of the name, (I had the right at all: it's Sony, it XP SP3, uninstall any need etc ...) a member of Line 6 has come to release the info: The UX 8 is incompatible with some motherboards that use chipsets and intel quadcore. The list of these chipsets is specified anywhere.
Line 6 knows this problem since early July, we are mid November and nothing has been done.
The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Manual? What manual?
GETTING STARTED
- The drivers are stable?
- Are they often updated?
not. see above.
- What software do you use most often?
Live, Cubase, Sound Forge, Vegas (8 UX does not work the last 3)
What you get lag?
At a minimum, that line calls 6 zero latency, there are a few milliseconds, enough to hear a disconnect between what you play and what is meant.
How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
when it does not crash, 8-registration
OVERALL OPINION
- How long have you use it?
I bought 2 months ago.
What is so special that you like most and least?
+: For 450 euros, you have a lovely dock door
-: Unstable beyond reality.
-: On the Line 6 site it says that Apogee converters are the same, perhaps, but the quality of a string is equal to the quality of the weakest link, and the weak are the mic preamps, of extremely poor quality. The gain does not provide a background quasimment not level, even recording a battery for example.
-: Non-existent technical support that uses the users to do their job. (English only)
-: The "zero latency" which means ...
-: Plugins: no shortcuts (eg arrow or + / - or customized) to access the presets, it is necessary to constantly open the presets via mouse, menu / sub menu / sub menu / list of presets, to access a preset, when you play an instrument is totally unusable.
-: Even turned off the engine warms up.
-: The buttons have a plastic look cheap immitation of the metal.
-: I have others but the biggest is said and should be enough to think twice before wasting their euros in the material below the whole competition
Have you tried many other models before buying it?
I zik of 25 years, sound cards I've seen happen, the more cheap for large models, this one breaks all records.
I wanted to replace my 2000 ESI to rid me of my mixer cumbersome, error. If It Is not broke, do not fix it.
How would you rate the quality / price?
If it works, preamps the preamplifier, the interface was used, then I would say "good" but then pointed to zero ...
With experience, you do again this choice? ...
and I'm not there to prevent that others do have.