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> New - Pls Help. Confused About Hardware, iMac with 10.5 - need USB MIDI interface
pigletto78
posté dim. 15 févr. 2009, 18:30
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Hi
I've been surfing the net to find a USB MIDI interface which will work with my Intel iMac using 10.5. I'm a bit confused and would welcome any advice.

I would like to connect my Yamaha PSR 550 to the Mac and use Garageband. I also have an acoustic guitar and would like to buy a mic and also be able to connect this and also record vocals. I think I need a 'condensor' mic for this?

So in short, I need a USB Midi device with Mic for vocal (and mic for acoustic guitar without a pickup), and Midi input.

I would rather spend a bit more on something with all these features than a 1 MIDI in/ 1 MIDI out cheapo wire, but I don't want to end up paying for things I will never use as a beginner amateur.

I've seen some bad feedback on some models which don't yet have drivers for 10.5.

Can anyone help recommend some hardware?! Thanks in advance.

Hannah
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FastEddy
posté mer. 6 mai 2009, 22:15
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" ... The main difference/issue was one of stability. USB in the "Beginning" was not as reliable as "Firewire". My knowledge is based on what was several years ago. I am certain USB has fixed this problem, still I would recommend Firewire... "

Demise: There is absolutely nothing wrong with most modern USB connected "sound cards" and other USB 2.0 connected audio devices.

"In the beginning" USB was not as fast as FireWire or as reliable. Now USB 2.0 connected audio interfaces ("sound cards") are every bit as good as any FireWire device ... IF these are used only as a playback devices.

There is a peculiar wrinkle that USB has that FireWire does not. This is the USB "latency" problem that troubles professional musicians and recording studio engineers the most (long technical details go here). Suffice to say that, if you are a pro singing into a microphone and listening to the other tracks on your headset, there is a slight but bothersome delay that will throw a professional's timing off ... FireWire does not have this problem (more techie details go here).

For us mortal lay listeners, most modern USB 2.0 connected sound equipment can and does playback and reproduce full 24 bit / 96k / Dolby 5.1 and 192k MP3 sound files. The "magic" specification is that 24 bit / 96k number = full fidelity, and about as good as it gets, even from DVD-Audio and DVD-Video tracks.

This same "magic" specification applies to those built in and plug in sound cards: the 24 bit / 96k playback is the base line for modern, quality audio playback.

(As for the 16bit / 44k CD music that most of us listen to, well, as Bob Dylan has said in Rolling Stone Magazine: "CD's suck" and that difference IMOP and His is the 24 bit magic.)

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- pigletto78   New - Pls Help. Confused About Hardware   dim. 15 févr. 2009, 18:30
- - deaconblue   Citation (pigletto78 @ Sun 15 Feb 2009, 11...   lun. 16 févr. 2009, 05:45
|- - Will2009   Hello Hannah, musiciansfriend is a good store, how...   mar. 17 févr. 2009, 01:08
- - DeniseMusic   Hello, My computer wouldn't let me start a new...   mer. 29 avril 2009, 22:14
|- - Nicola Bloom   QUOTE (DeniseMusic @ Wed 29 Apr 2009, 22...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 08:08
|- - fishboisfo   Hi Denise . . . I would like to reverb what a lo...   ven. 1 mai 2009, 12:47
- - Mac Daddy   Denise... The main difference/issue was one of sta...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 08:24
- - jimdubpram   Hi Denise I use a Saffire Firewire LE interface wi...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 11:34
- - ironhead   hello from what i understand you just need somethi...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 15:37
|- - DeniseMusic   Thank you!! So much to learn-so little t...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 15:48
- - philflood   Hi Denise, For your purposes, either USB or Firew...   jeu. 30 avril 2009, 17:06
- - DeniseMusic   Mr. Snapple, Thanks for the reply. I ordered a...   ven. 1 mai 2009, 15:29
- - fishboisfo   When it comes to MIDI, you do not need anything wi...   sam. 2 mai 2009, 18:27
- - DeniseMusic   Once again, thank you for all the information. I ...   lun. 4 mai 2009, 03:22
|- - deaconblue   QUOTE (DeniseMusic @ Sun 3 May 2009, 21...   lun. 4 mai 2009, 22:10
- - edthened   Hi: One that I like, and use pretty much all the ...   mar. 5 mai 2009, 06:08
- - FastEddy   More than a decade ago USB to MIDI interfaces cost...   mar. 5 mai 2009, 16:28
- - DeniseMusic   I plugged in the speakers from my PC and for once ...   mar. 5 mai 2009, 17:37
- - DeniseMusic   Got the Tascam interface today and was able to rec...   jeu. 7 mai 2009, 04:09


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