I'll either use the motu 896 which is firewire or the presonus firestudio 24, which frankly has better hardware. I've had a lot of trouble with motu stuff lately, switches going bad and xlr plugs that won't release, they still use those big locking tabs on them which most other gear has done away with. It does have the advantage of having a good monitor cue system with reverb and eq and such, and with the ocr function in jaws it may be accessible but I have several input channels that don't work etc. With the firestation, I have an additional presonus 8 channel a to d converter with mic pres and I have the focusright octapre which I can connect to the light pipe inputs for 24 inputs, which I'll want to have when I get the synclavier and I'll just plug a lot of my other hardware in so I'll always be able to record them as audio. I'll get the uad quad pci card for the uad plugs.
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:08 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Press Release: RME MADIface XT Yea, I agree; appollo sounds nice on paper, but the price tag alone plus needing to have the gear in place, though I don't doubt the convertion quality and effects are worth it. I didn't see a price for the RME, but yea, probably expensive. What card are you going to put in the new machine? RME? Regards, D!J!X! -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gordon Kent Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 2:08 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Press Release: RME MADIface XT Hi: I was thinking of an appollo for my newest daw but I think I'm just going to go with a pci card instead. I have enough audio interfaces around and both my Presonus firestudio 24 and motu 2496 have more i/o than the appollo would. And I would have serious doubts that we could use the live monitoring stuff anyway, there interfaces aren't really that accessible. The rme, on the other hand, claims midi control which could be good, but it ain't going to be cheap. It would be nice though to finally get rid of the quirkness of firewire. Gord -----Original Message----- From: D!J!X! Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 1:47 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Press Release: RME MADIface XT That's cool, I was wondering how they managed it (since chipsets for USB3 are still sucky to say the least), looks like they made their own proprietary chipsets though, or modified an existing one. Did you happen to see the apollo 16? Crazy! D!J!X! -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Smart Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:51 PM To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Press Release: RME MADIface XT This is the first USB 3.0 capable audio interface. More at: http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=16099 Chris -------------------------------------------------- CTS MASTERING, affordable and professional mixing and mastering: http://www.ctsmastering.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/CTSMASTERING BLOG: www.ctsmastering.com/blog Linked In: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/chris-smart/46/824/536 Dropbox, Share Files Easily: http://db.tt/bQ2GuIt PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line typefaq
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