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Darkmoon « This is what is best in this price range! »
Published on 01/03/12 at 14:03The 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!
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!