All user reviews for the Roland UA-55 Quad-Capture

In addition to Article Will Zégal, which gives rather like, I read enough stuff about the quality of drivers, which is not the case in these price ranges. After the rest, the two pre-amps, power supply via USB and the indispensable ground lift (if I may counsel, never buy a USB self-powered lift without the possibility of ground, the current brings a lot of noise, unbearable).
The switches on the back are the same as those on the Edirol FA-66 (not surprising), then almost as strong as the dip-switches, loggers, attention.

UTILIZATION

So the drivers are very stable, latency worthy of internal PCIe cards. I work at 24bit 48kHz, with a latency of 3.56ms and 5.33ms input into output. The configuration tool allows you to go lower, but at these levels the audio may deteriorate in some circumstances (I think particularly during refresh of the various graphical applications running, which can happen frequently).
Cubase 5, I record my guitar and bass tracks using HP simus convolution and a convolution reverb send in for the project in general. No worries of delay, the game is perfectly smooth and synchronous direct monitoring.

GETTING STARTED

It goes pretty quickly on it, trouble-free installation in Win7 64bit, the card is not yet compatible with Linux, which will be soon.
Just as I wrote above, the ground lift is essential: its power via the USB brings a lot of noise, I had the opportunity to try a lot of USB interfaces without this capacity, I have sold pronto.

Regarding audio quality, for monitoring I did not identify any obvious defects, the quad-capture is plugged into my Yamaha HS50M and my Sony MDR-7506, no breath, good headroom for the headphones. The potentiometer is not very linear, but hey, it does not matter.
For starters, I plug the DI above, it is as transparent as one could wish. Again, no defects identified.

OVERALL OPINION

A great little USB Roland which I am perfectly satisfied. The audio is clean, the implementation is simple, the price is right, brief as you ask for? Yeah, a separate volume for the headphones!

Thank you to Will Zégal whose article guided me well.

what motivated my choice is the 24 bit / 192kHz quality sound to a neutral and very correct!
I use it on a PC with Windows 7 64bit intel 2500k I5 to 4.3 ghz 8gb ram kingston 1333MHz Asus p8z68 pro-v and corsair 90gb ssd drive (yes it is rather good stuff hehe! ) I connected my fantom x6 with my srx cards are small and as you say via asio card compresses its all set up on a sonar that disconnects max! on the other hand I use SONAR 8.5 Producer I just to purchase the update for x1 The only problem I had is having to install it in 32bit and not 64-bit to use all its soft (yes all is not compatible out of 64) I was able to test a micro audiotechnica it was the T2050 and the rendering was really good (very light)! the card is no one who had little more stable TerraTec m-audio and I think the motu to the rank of the motu yes TerraTec not stable and my m-audio has burn (my motu I made the con I spill my morning coffee !!!!! I argghh 1024samples 5.3 ms with its own asio and 2.7 ms it operates in 512samples!

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as I disai drivers are stable but soft attention to what you have to use a friends fruity loops 6 (fruity is not my friend) and had a malfunction like sounds that are triggered or even crackling sounds so vinil Reason if not 5 pffff nickel!! I do not know where this comes personal fruity I think has some problems (I mean the edition after 6 .....) I have drivers for those original but I have not had any problems so not really need to update!

GETTING STARTED

installed in 3 minutes!!
config super simple to use windows wdm or asio card asio4all dropping it will not render 24/192khz and use self direction which is really an asset to avoid the saturation a recording!
pfff not need a manual!

OVERALL OPINION

yes I had the opportunity to test many sound card before I decide the quad capture was the only one I have not tested but being faithful to the brand roland a whim I bought 179 euros and really I wanted no regrets octa only I did not need as many inputs and outputs that fact that some days I have e jen but not let go and I often work 16-track it does not move !
most is the price for its quality bluffing you it will crush the competition has put the preamp vs. the 700 on this card??
for those that possess the sonar x1 8.5 Show do not think twice unless your budget allows there are certainly better but not for that price I do not find it!
the least one can be so volume for headphone and monitor but having a room and a composite recording room sound insulation I do not have this problem!

I wanted a small sound card to mock my songs guitar + bass + vocals, not too expensive and unreliable. Also I play on my own and do not need more than two entries
Little reaction on the advice of very negative ps235: Are you sure it's not your PC or your config that is the problem?
At home in any case it works well, though my computer is far from a beast: AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz and 3 MB of RAM
I get a latency of 2.5 ms ASIO

UTILIZATION

Small problem with Sonar (version LE included) that loses sync every time you launch ASIO (but just the software, not the card)
Recording two tracks without problem
I have not read Exceeds 6 tracks + some effects, a jump sometimes (but never answers) but hey if I had a little more RAM, or if my computer was not connected at all times ....

GETTING STARTED

installs and configures in less than 10 minutes

OVERALL OPINION

This is my new toy for a month and I spend most of my time registering, mixer etc ...
I did not have many other cards, a soundblaster live (with connections on the front), a DSP 24 Hoontech
At this price what more?
for those who regret that there have not any particular option one piece of advice: invest in 1000 MOTU or RME

The product is recent and current (and therefore necessarily compatible with Windows 7 64-bit) has greatly motivated my choice. Also, the preamp quality borrowed from the V-Studio 700 have inspired confidence and, of course, all previous opinions greatly influenced me!

I use it as his main card on Windows 7 64 bit as well as to the computer music with FL Studio v10.0.9 (32 bit). The entries in the Quad-capture I use to record my electric guitar as well as taking voice with a Shure SM-57.

My PC is a 3.4GHz Core I7 2600 with 8 GB of RAM and SATA 7200rpm.

UTILIZATION

The installation was no problem the first time and I have not seen any instability so far. I did not install the drivers from the installation CD, but version 1.01 is available on the website of Roland. The CD contains a French version of the PDF manual.

With the latest version of FL Studio (10.0.9), everything works perfectly! With my guitar and Guitar Rig or Amplitube 5 3.1, I can easily go down to 6ms latency while playing a few other tracks, Addictive Drums, and some VST Kontakt, etc.. For now, I have not gone further, but say it bodes very well! Just to say, when I mix up the Direct Monitoring of 50%, I do not even have a difference or chorus!

I look forward to, with more tracks and effects, how far I'll be able to hold below 10ms latency.

GETTING STARTED

The control panel of the Quad-Capture and simple (unlike other cards), but effective: Lo-Cut and phase inverter for each input and a compressor / gate to have I was particularly surprised. The Gate works perfectly without crushing! Of course, levels of mix knobs for each input.

As others have mentioned, the Auto-Sense avoids fiddling with the input levels and works very well. It can be used both by the button on the card as the software interface.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it only for a few days so be relative to the stability, but it bodes very well so far. Before I had an EMU-0404 PCI working fine (and still had good A / D converters), but the Quad-Capture seems to me a notch above! The sound is sublime, without artifacts or background noise and is very well defined! I am not a professional, but I do computer music for almost ten years and I have pretty good ears "sharp."

This is my first sound card external USB and scared that latency is not as good with my EMU-0404 connected to a PCI card or FireWire, but I am pleasantly surprised by both the low latency than the sound quality!

I must stress that my PC is connected to the internet, but it is also relatively optimized for computer music (some services / processes disabled, disabling the power saving for USB hubs, HD and OS on the first Bank of samples other physical HD, etc.).. And good, with 8GB of Ram and I7, it certainly helps!

In short, as the other, except for the fact that we can independently control the volume of the headphone and the monitor output, this external sound card seems to me perfectly so far (in its price range). Its metal case also inspires confidence and the look is nice.

So for the USB, less than 200 €, I will in the same direction as the previous opinion: I think it's a, if not the best moment of the USB card in early 2012!

Recording high-definition at a fair price

UTILIZATION

Soon

GETTING STARTED

soon

OVERALL OPINION

First Notice express:
Purchased over the Internet in Orbit at a price of 199 euros.
Printing for purchasing a quality product and strong. The metal is really pro. The power is with the usb ... a joy not to bother with an external power supply. Driver installation: two fingers in the nose with Windows7. Tested quickly with FLStudio the headphone: it works very well ...
Following soon .. with Sonar LE X1

Bought a week ago in toto, I would have liked to use it ...

UTILIZATION

I do not know if the drivers with stable and any number of tracks can be seen utuliser that I can not put the soft way, the install crashes repeatedly and whatever I do, in the same place .

GETTING STARTED

The install asked me a major Pb, it is imopssible home, on a new PC (8 days, too) under W7 ...

Otherwise, everything is clear ... I go home and logic will get a refund ...

OVERALL OPINION

I have been eight days without being able to use it.

Thank you Roland, he had to think ...

With experience, I would do this choice, it is on ....

What characteristics have motivated your choice?
24-bit/192 kHz audio quality and excellent converters of the Roland V-Studio 700.

For what purpose?
To save musical instruments

What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / RAM / Disk ,...)?
Laptop Dual core 2 duo with 3 GB 4 GB of ram.


Which instruments and systems (console, preamp, DTD ...) you use it and how connections? ...
Boss GT 10 and Line 6 Pod HD 500.

UTILIZATION

The drivers are stable?
Yes

Are they updated frequently?
Roland with no worries.

What software do you use most often?
Samplitude Pro, Reaper, Cubase,

What you get lag?
24-bit 96,000 Khz I have a latency of 17 ms.

How many tracks you get to record / play simultaneously? ...
4 track recording and playback more (12) see over by the processor and VSTi.

GETTING STARTED

The installation is done it without problems?
Yes it is easy to install, but you have to read the pdf file before installing the driver.

Have you encountered any incompatibilities?
Not this time.

The general configuration is easy?
Yes as long to read the manual before.

The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
It is quite clear.

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it?
A few days

What is so special that you love the most, least?

What I like is that this sound card has high-quality converters, those of the Roland V-Studio 700. These converters allow to obtain a sound with great dynamics and transparency, the sound is very clean. And to get this sound quality must often spend more than € 200 in other brands ...

If you need a sound card usb 2, with a very good value for money, and you do not need more than 4 channels of audio, I recommend the high quality sound card.

Have you tried many other models before buying it?
Once I used the Edirol UA 5 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496,

How would you rate the quality / price?
The price is excellent value considering the quality of the sound card,


With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Yes I would do this choice without any hesitation.

I was looking for a sound card with low noise, high-resolution recording and not overly expensive.

Macbook pro and pro tools AKG headphones are more my setup

use, transfer tapes of Revox B77 MKII CD mainly

UTILIZATION

everything worked fine, can connect the card is hot, everything works perfectly, as often repeated the auto-direction is masterful, it was finally real records respecting the original dynamic!!

GETTING STARTED

Whether on Mac or PC, no complaints about the installation, except that I have no pc tretrouvé the management module of the map to see.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this card for three weeks. I am extremely satisfied.

Sound is simply outstanding. Once the tape is transferred, the sound is fine, clear, open, crystalline highs, a certain presence. Absolutely recommended, especially since the background noise is very low.

The preamps in Roland Quad Capture are indeed VS preamps, clean, quiet and efficient. The first two support Hi-Z instrument direct input, while all eight channels offer individual low-cut filtering, phase inversion, phantom power, and their own compressor/limiter. The quad-Capture supports four discrete mixes (Mix A-D), too -- and these can be running simultaneously, routed to different pairs of outputs. The obvious application for this wiould be in recording, sending different performers mixes that boosted their contributions over others', but I also see a huge advantage here in using an quad-Capture in live sound for a school, small theatre or church environment, being able to vary the mix to different banks of monitors in a house PA system, to better take advantage of the room's resonant qualities.


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Focusrite and M-Audio both have offerings with eight preamps in the same price range that are worth exploring too. In my own case, need to stay within the V-LINK family made the quad-Capture a foregone conclusion, but the Auto-Sens feature in particular makes it a formidable contender even to those without such a requirement. Furthermore, folks who are considering a second VS-700R, but don't quite need the massive iron and second Fantom it provides, would be well-served to take a look at the quad-Capture as a very cost-effective alternative for V-Studio expansion.


GETTING STARTED

No compatibility issues.

OVERALL OPINION

Overall, I'm kind of amazed, really. At its price, it's a natural choice to pair with a VS-700 or just to run by itself as a project studio IO solution, but its applications in live sound as a control center for a small performance hall should not be overlooked either. This isn't just an IO box -- it's a highly portable, highly versatile virtual soundboard for live sound work, that can also produce amazing captures. One of these, plus a basic laptop with the quad-Capture's software for easier access to all the settings, would be a very cost-effective solution for mobile sound desk work. The ability to run concurrent mixes to different banks of speakers, and to automatically set levels, make it a "magic bullet" when dealing with most live sound concerns.

First, i have to tell you I just tried this sound card during one evening.
So I just post my first impressions, a real opinion would require time of use.

My config: win7 64-bit laptop, Cubase 5.
My use: for my little home studio, I record bass DI, electro-acoustic guitar DI + condenser microphone in front and the rest of VSTs with my P-85 connected to MIDI.

So I am looking for a USB sound card with minimum 2 + XLR input jack, and MIDI I / O.
This one is a priori one of the best value for money for my budget.
The fact that it's a recently card is good as I'm sure of the win7 compatibility.

Now let's plug it!

UTILIZATION

Installation dream: I installed the drivers and everything went direct.

In cubase 5 everything worked the first time, including MIDI.
I tried to disconnect / reconnect my keyboard or even the sound card when cubase on, re-everything works perfectly. And all USB ports.
It changes my old sound card (the first version of the M-Audio MobilePre, not very young!) Where I had to restart everything, go into the settings of windows etc. ..

Just two remarks:

- Recording MIDI from my keyboard, it has "jumped" twice. That is, at once, it no longer records. I do not know if it has the card in my config, my processor .. Cable same afternoon .. but I mention it anyway.

- When my laptop is connected to AC power, there is a buzz in the speakers. The headphone, nothing to report). Again I do not know where it comes from, but it's very annoying.

GETTING STARTED

Above all, the metal case looks solid, the knobs are heavy and accurate.
There are small diodes around to see the input levels.

The card is very compact: it is essential for a small home studio apartment like mine.

I went through the manual (in English), it seemed clear.
I preferred to read in the functioning of the auto-gain control inputs to be sure, even if it is intuitive .. Basically you press the button once, then you play the most "high" of the song, then re-calculated so that it supports. It's pretty fun and convenient although not necessary I think.

OVERALL OPINION

I still remember that I tried the card that evening.

I know that the great advantage of this card is the quality of its preamps.
Difficult for me to judge, I know nothing, but obviously, it changes my old MobilePre! No need to set the input level to the bottom right for a gain and vice versa, even putting virtually all the max, no saturation ..
I let the experts care to comment on the more technical aspects, I just know that the preamps are "class A" and it's more uncommon at this price.

A major drawback, however: no volume control separate from the headphone speakers ..
It's hassle of having to turn off the speakers when you make a decision ..
Too bad!

I have attached a screenshot of this notice control panel found in the "Devices" menu in Cubase. It lets you control the map with your mouse. I have not had time to play unfortunately.

In view of my query (USB sound card with at least 2 min input jack + XLR, and MIDI I / O, Price <300 €), I think based on that and I buy it in the week.
I just wish to test the Native Instruments Komplete 6 Audio before, to compare ..
But I do not get me too by saying that the Quad Capture is a safe bet, honestly for € 200, it's great stuff.

I hope my opinion will be useful, a +