All user reviews of 5/5 for the PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL

What characteristics have motivated your choice?
The price and 4 outputs: one plays on sequences for about 450 € (at the time it has fallen since) I can send the bass in his amp, the rest in the sound and put a metronome drummer.

For what purpose? Mainly home studio. It is also used to record some of our sessions and get a better result with a simple micro

What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard, ...)? Asus ROG one with 8GB of RAM and Windows 7

Which instruments and systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) you use it and how connections? Electric and acoustic guitars, bass, beta57 / 58, rode NT2A the usual electronic cables, battery alesis dm10, VoiceLive 2

UTILIZATION

The drivers are stable? Never had to worry
Are they often updated? Often enough
What software do you use most often? Cubase Elements 7
What you get lag? Imperceptible
How many tracks you get to record / playback simultaneously? Register: 4, read: it depends on the number of VST and ASIO load but I never needed to limit.

GETTING STARTED

The installation is done it without problems?
To have done many times, is no installation problem

Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
Do not talk about bad luck! Never far

The general configuration is easy?
Child

The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
It is very complete, we even learned a few tricks of mixing.

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it?
Long, I think 3-4 years

What is so special that you like most and least?
The price for about € 450 (250 now) A 4 inputs / outputs with 48V power supply that's all good. In addition, the sound is clean.

Have you tried many other models before buying it?
I had a Tascam us-122L at the beginning and then I spent the step up with this one.

How would you rate the quality / price?
Very good, that's what made me decide

With experience, you do again this choice?
No, speed or what kind of equipment is changing so I had to consider changing the sound card after three years of use I would choose a newer model. Just fear that the drivers are not updated after a moment.

What motivated my choice:
Input / output noon.
4 Inputs: 2 line / instrument inputs + 2 Mic / line
Phantom power
Front:
independent monitor and headphone volume.
1 gain knob for each channel.
Button mix his computer / direct
Class A preamps XMAS reputable.
Presonus recognized brand on the market.
The preamps are very good quality. It must be brought to the limit of peak determined by a red LED to draw the quintessence.

Used with Nuendo and Cubase on a laptop with Vista dual core 4 gigabytes of RAM and another PC running Windows 7 4 GB of ram and quad. This system is less stable ... In both cases the DD are partitioned into 2.
The card is plugged in USB 2.

In this config I can make models of quality.
I record guitars, vocals and keyboard via MIDI and / or via a USB keyboard plugged into the pc with Halion, Sample Tank and Kompletes Elements from Native.

UTILIZATION

The driver is stable whatever happens sometimes when you open the setting interface sound card, once closed you can not re-open without re-start the PC.

The software most used by me is Nuendo.

I currently recorded two tracks simultaneously. I could save 4.
Read more carefree 25 tracks.

Latency I get is less than 7 ms.

However, I prefer playing sometimes increase the buffer to be less rowing the computer.

GETTING STARTED

Installation is fast and without any problem.

The control interface is very easy to use. The settings are simple.
One caveat, it should not be forgotten in the management interface, click the Off button before starting a recording session with the DAW.

This card can be used without a DAW or startup and entering the management interface of the card by putting it ON can incorporate effects, equalize the sound input.

The manual is sufficient.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 1 year.
I had previously an Alesis I / O 2 and a Yamaha Audiogram 3. Neither of these cards arrive at the ankle of the Presonus.

What I like is the sound quality.
Least that often, once open the setting interface we can not reopen it again without re-start the PC. But this is not really a problem because once set, there is no change to mix history except for the computer less tiring. But this is not mandatory.

A quality / price excellent.