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jeanseb85
Published on 04/20/08 at 02:53
- What characteristics have motivated your choice?
It its own power supply, which for me was better than a powered USB interface
- For what purpose?
For improsture pardi
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
PIII 933 MHz - 512 MB SDRAM - 40 GB HD MAXTOR all under W2000 PRO (but a separate session), maybe one day I will put my 80 GB Seagate partitioned into 20 / 60 GB (1st partition for internet and one for the computer music)
Overall it works pretty well, there is only with the Battery VST I sometimes cuts of the (forced to reboot the Quattro and Sonar and it rolls up ....)
- Which instruments and systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) you use it and how connections? ...
My instruments (guitars, bass, microphone and sometimes keyboard) come first in my Phonic AM440 then stand by to the REC OUT QUATTRO in half, which they leave by 1 / 2 to the RTN 2TK PHONIC.
10/10 anyway ... I think the cuts of the stalls and all kinds are rather due to the age of my computer. I would like to change but I'm stingy limits
UTILIZATION
- The installation is done it without problems?
Actual installation has always gone well, even under WIN98SE; only downside with WIN98SE I had not the little green arrow that allowed me to stop the Quattro and suddenly I had to restart the computer and then turn it off after if it remained stuck.
- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
Nothing special to report
- The general configuration is easy?
Oh yeah then, the first day I read the doc for not doing anything, I was all set and ready.
- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Some are useless but I have still learned a few tricks in computer music
GETTING STARTED
- The drivers are stable?
It seems to me, yes
- Are they often updated?
Now with the arrival of Vista, you will have many treasured keep the drivers from the CD and the Quattro which is downloadable from M-AUDIO.
- What software do you use most often?
Sonar 3 and sometimes Battery (before that I recorded with Audacity 1.2.4. Then cakewalk Home Studio 9)
- What you get lag?
So small that I hardly know. Haircut of 8 micro-seconds is not my thing.
- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
Typically, my projects Sonar does not contain more than 10 tracks (including a MIDI + Audio Battery) I record always a track at a time. With Home Studio 9 I managed to record two simultaneously.
M-Audio did not want to adapt its Quattro drivers to Vista .... note is that, even if it can be assumed that most of the Quattro used throughout the world have already gone wrong and can not slam overnight, before he could rub Vista.
OVERALL OPINION
- How long have you use it?
It'll be two years in June
- What is so special that you like most and least?
The +: It is lighter and is ready for use. What more?
The -: Absence of a headphone jack.
- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
No, it's my first real good tool for computer music
- How would you rate the quality / price?
I have bought used from a fellow AFien careful. But it's certainly worth € 200
- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
With the presence of a headphone jack so.
I do not know if we all feel like solid material with the FAST TRACK PRO, but it suits me well this one
So finally after 2 years of use I am very happy
It its own power supply, which for me was better than a powered USB interface
- For what purpose?
For improsture pardi
- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
PIII 933 MHz - 512 MB SDRAM - 40 GB HD MAXTOR all under W2000 PRO (but a separate session), maybe one day I will put my 80 GB Seagate partitioned into 20 / 60 GB (1st partition for internet and one for the computer music)
Overall it works pretty well, there is only with the Battery VST I sometimes cuts of the (forced to reboot the Quattro and Sonar and it rolls up ....)
- Which instruments and systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) you use it and how connections? ...
My instruments (guitars, bass, microphone and sometimes keyboard) come first in my Phonic AM440 then stand by to the REC OUT QUATTRO in half, which they leave by 1 / 2 to the RTN 2TK PHONIC.
10/10 anyway ... I think the cuts of the stalls and all kinds are rather due to the age of my computer. I would like to change but I'm stingy limits
UTILIZATION
- The installation is done it without problems?
Actual installation has always gone well, even under WIN98SE; only downside with WIN98SE I had not the little green arrow that allowed me to stop the Quattro and suddenly I had to restart the computer and then turn it off after if it remained stuck.
- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
Nothing special to report
- The general configuration is easy?
Oh yeah then, the first day I read the doc for not doing anything, I was all set and ready.
- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Some are useless but I have still learned a few tricks in computer music
GETTING STARTED
- The drivers are stable?
It seems to me, yes
- Are they often updated?
Now with the arrival of Vista, you will have many treasured keep the drivers from the CD and the Quattro which is downloadable from M-AUDIO.
- What software do you use most often?
Sonar 3 and sometimes Battery (before that I recorded with Audacity 1.2.4. Then cakewalk Home Studio 9)
- What you get lag?
So small that I hardly know. Haircut of 8 micro-seconds is not my thing.
- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
Typically, my projects Sonar does not contain more than 10 tracks (including a MIDI + Audio Battery) I record always a track at a time. With Home Studio 9 I managed to record two simultaneously.
M-Audio did not want to adapt its Quattro drivers to Vista .... note is that, even if it can be assumed that most of the Quattro used throughout the world have already gone wrong and can not slam overnight, before he could rub Vista.
OVERALL OPINION
- How long have you use it?
It'll be two years in June
- What is so special that you like most and least?
The +: It is lighter and is ready for use. What more?
The -: Absence of a headphone jack.
- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
No, it's my first real good tool for computer music
- How would you rate the quality / price?
I have bought used from a fellow AFien careful. But it's certainly worth € 200
- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
With the presence of a headphone jack so.
I do not know if we all feel like solid material with the FAST TRACK PRO, but it suits me well this one
So finally after 2 years of use I am very happy