 Hardware Recommendations, USB or Firewire Audio Devices |
  lun. 13 janv. 2003, 16:55
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Ive been creating music for a few months now using Ableton Live 1.5, Reason 2.0 and an Oxygen 8 controller. Im using a G4/450 cube, which some of you may already know has no PCI slots so i cant add an audio card. So, I've been looking for a USB or Firewire device so that i can accept signals from my turntables and other devices as well as send a signal to my stereo receiver which accepts RCA connectors so that i can monitor on something that sounds better than my macs speakers.....
anyway... can anyone recommend any devices to solve this sort of thing? Ive looked at a couple of the eMagic boxes but im wondering if theres anything less expensive... |
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dim. 9 févr. 2003, 11:23
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The Audio In on the Mac uses 16bit processing (unless something important has changed). External cards such as the Mbox does a 24bit analogue to digital conversion etc etc.
When you potter with the sound, once digitized and in your computer, calculations involve rounding-off results. Information becomes less and less precise (cf Mars probe fiasco). If its all done in 24bits you end up with let's say 16bit quality. If its done with 16bit numbers you end up with let's say 12bit quality. You need to end up with the 16bit quality of CDs. -------------------- Without shit, we wouldn't be here ;)
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SpiralZ Hardware Recommendations lun. 13 janv. 2003, 16:55
rickenbacker I don't know about less expensive, but I'v... mar. 14 janv. 2003, 11:35 ryosode I like my Tascam US-428, which not only has Audio ... mar. 14 janv. 2003, 21:27 Myerzman I'm interested to know if one had an Imac with... sam. 8 févr. 2003, 07:28 deaconblue Which iMac model do you have? Do you have a newer... dim. 9 févr. 2003, 06:03 rickenbacker Myerzman: if you had a UA-700, why would you plug ... dim. 9 févr. 2003, 23:27 charlieb QUOTE (SpiralZ @ Jan 13 2003, 15:55)Ive been ... dim. 16 févr. 2003, 10:45 rickenbacker charlieb: I know you didn't ask me but I'm... dim. 16 févr. 2003, 13:50 ryosode I'm with rickenbacker on this one. I have Live... dim. 16 févr. 2003, 20:46 charlieb Ryosode and Rickenbacker.
Thanks so much for the i... lun. 17 févr. 2003, 00:00 rickenbacker If you're not planning on importing any live m... lun. 17 févr. 2003, 10:56 charlieb QUOTE (rickenbacker @ Feb 17 2003, 09:56)If y... lun. 17 févr. 2003, 11:10 rickenbacker Hey, charlieb.
Maybe you don't understand wha... lun. 17 févr. 2003, 11:30 charlieb Rickenbacker,
WOW, what an education!
I guess ... lun. 17 févr. 2003, 12:30
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