Roland USB audio interfaces

Which technical specifications motivated your choice? I wanted a USB soundcard capable of supporting 24/192, a simple unit with stable drivers to stay away of PC soundcards. Do you use it with other instruments or systems (mixing console, preamp, DtD, ...) and what's your setup? ... What do you use it for? It depends on my mood. I use it with my laptop or desktop PC or the Mac, I also use my MiniDiscs, my studio live, my iPads, Ipod or iPhone, Neumann or Shure beta 87a vocal mic with a Voice live2. Ditto on the Mac. Nothing to say, except that it works perfectly. What's your setup (motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive,...)? FYI, I put my PCs together myself. My main setup is a real beast, which nevertheless is starting to be outdated. Quad core AMD, 8 GB Ram, 1 sdd for Windows...3 HDDs for storage, an Nvidia gtx680 for a bit of 3D (with a nice 27" display (a requirement for 3d ^^). UTILIZATION Are the drivers stable? Nothing to say, impeccable. Are they up to date? Not right now, but what should I update for? ^^ Which software do you use? Audacity, Soundforge, Studio one ,Capture What's the latency of your system? The what? How many tracks can you record/playback simultaneously ? ... My needs aren't' too demanding, but I do anything that comes to my head. I'm not too limited in terms of Ram. GETTING STARTED Was the installation hassle-free? No problems. Did you have any incompatibility problems? None. Neither on the Mac nor on the laptop or desktop PCs. How complicated is the overall configuration? It's very easy. Is the user's manual clear and comprehensive? No, it's useless. You have to get it from the CD, which I don't like. It's true that it's not hard to get it going, but then again... OVERALL OPINION How long have you been using it? Several weeks. Which feature do you like the most / the least? The most: The sound, it's awesome. Did you try any other models before buying this one? I used an old card on the PC or the Studio Live. How would you rate its value for money? It's exactly what I was looking for, a solid unit (great sound, easy detection) Based on your experience, would you buy this product again? ... Without hesitation!

The Roland Octa Capture is a USB Audio Interface that is on the higher end of the price scale when it comes to smaller portable interfaces. But it is built very well and has 8 very good microphone preamps built into it. These microphone preamps are some of the best preamps that I have heard out of an interface of this size. The Octa Capture is also very low latency and can work on a Mac computer or a PC computer. It comes with Cakewalk software which I am not a huge fan of so I used it with Reason and Cubase and never had any issues with it. UTILIZATION Setting this interface up is easy no matter what DAW you want to use with it, I just set it up as I would any other interface. After loading in the drivers just went into my audio connections in my DAW programs and located the Octa Capture and that was it. This interface also has MIDI I/O as well as coaxial input and output connectors. GETTING STARTED The sound quality while recording with this interface is amazing. As long as you have a microphone that can work well with the preamps you will have no issues getting a great sound from home. The price of this interface is what kept me from purchasing it right away. I though 700 dollars was a little expensive for an interface that couldn’t give me a bunch of channels/tracks to record on simultaneously. OVERALL OPINION Most of Rolands production are built well so I knew there had to be something worth that 700 dollars. It was the preamps! The preamps are what I was paying for here and now I take this interface with me almost anywhere because everyone around me loves recording with it. I have tried it out with over 5 different microphones now and all of them sounded great.