KVR Audio

forbiddensilence · Post by **forbiddensilence** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:35 pm

I think i've damaged my Pcmcia Slot, i can't use my brilliant indigo echo card anymore.

Can someone suggest the next best thing, usb/firwire? I'm mobile on trains and use cubase and kontakt all the time.

I know of asio4all...but the quality is terrible.
Thanks

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:41 pm

You know what, I used to be the same as you. Carrying around a portable USB device for use in such places. Then one day I left it at home and couldn't tell the difference. You're using headphones on the train, so if you can hear a quality difference then good luck to you.

My advice is just go with A4A.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:00 pm

I concur with Mushy I had a few usb driven soundcards and I always expected more then I got. The tascam mixer one was pure crap. I had a turtle beach one that was smaller then small worked great but it didn't last long.

I run a4a and windows media drivers all the time on the same machine simultaneously with different audio programs. A4A runs my background programs and WMD runs my foreground host.

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:16 pm

Plus it saves:
a) faffing about with another device and the necessary cables
b) looking like a twat with another soundcard.

I haven't looked back.

David Carpenter Wind Core · Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:05 pm

Hands down best small low latency interface beats the echo by a lot is the Quad Capture from Roland . It is usb but doesn't act like it I can set it to 48 sample buffers and forget about it. VS streaming roland driver takes care of everything else.

Seriously the best usb powered or small form factor interface I have tried even beats a couple of fire wire devices.

Also having the coax digital in out is a plus. The only thing I don't like about it is that it is made in china not japan.

gamecat666 · Post by **gamecat666** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:16 pm

I use a cakewalk/roland UA-1G which is pretty slim and has really low latency

http://www.rolandus.com/products/produc ... rentId=436

forbiddensilence · Post by **forbiddensilence** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:44 pm

Great stuff, thanks for help..tbh i think the same, Yeah maybe i can live with asio4all, after all i do have peripherals at home...and i know i will look like a right twat with an external box on a train...may as well take the home kitchen with me.

To the other guys i will check out the peripherals mentioned, maybe as an upgrade to the firewire solo.

forbiddensilence · Post by **forbiddensilence** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:51 pm

tapper mike wrote:
A4A runs my background programs and WMD runs my foreground host.

how do i go about setting that up in win 7 then??

the other reason i like echo cos it gave me virtual outputs when using kontakt an output for each instrument....how do i get that in A4A???

Kaine · Post by **Kaine** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:43 am

Cheap and tiny.

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/ ... r-audio-2/

Also runs on the same controller and pretty much same driver set as the KA6, giving it better performing results but without the inputs so you can only playback through it. The KA6 benches as the best recording interface we've seen for under £250 so for the drivers to be better than that is saying somthing.

Edson Caetano · Post by **Edson Caetano** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:11 pm

Very Cheap
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA222.aspx

Behringer UCA222, no latency for me

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:15 pm

I can't say with windows7

I'm not running to record anything it is for live performance only.

In Vista
I open my standalone and set it for Windows media
I then disable midi in on my daw's midi input and select a4a

If I want to do a "one off" record. I open BB Flashback and capture the speaker out.

what is the smallest asio interface i can buy to use with vst instruments.