Stay away from USB or Firewire soundcards, those will always ad a security buffer to your overall latency and in addition will not perform so stable when dealing with a high channel counts and/or high CPU load. You can hook up up to four (!) of them.if you find a mobo with four PCI slotsĪnyway, or you buy some of the old RME or MoTu PCI will run with 64Samples, that gives you an overall latency of 3ms from analog in to analog out. I see these cards with breakoutbox for about 50,- Euros on ebay. If you want to go really cheap, than look into these-> Terratec EWS88MT I use two Terratec Mic8 convertors with two Terratec EWS88MT PCI cards. Of course, I wanted the cheapest possible combination, so I used my old SAC desktop PC (Core2Duo, E8400 CPU, 4GB RAM, Windows XP pro) und bought some dead cheap PCI soundcards. Due to my experience with SAC, I know at least a bit, how to tweak windows and what soundcards are good for real time audio. So I thought, why not use this as digital siderack on my analoge Soundcraft mixer? The missing link is a propper Windows PC and a soundcard. Which is a very economical VST host software. Than I run into LiveProfessor lately-> LiveProfessor | Lately they sold a A&H ML5000 for under 2.000,- EURO (Case, PSUs included), or a Midas X元 for just 2.400,- Euros! So I thought, I keep my Vienna II.even if I don't use it anymore. If you look into evilbay, the prices for analog desks are insanely cheap. Meanwhile I sold nearly everything from my analoge gear, but I did not have the heart to sell my old Soundcraft Vienna II. After two years I run into the Behringer X32 and love it too. Two years ago I stumbled over SAC ( SAC - Software Audio Console ) a virtual live mixer, that lets you use your favourite VST Plugins in a live enviroment. In the Studio I used a Soundcraft 2400, after that a DC2020 and finally bought a RME Hammerfall card with RME convertors and went very early the "InTheBox-route". Than I bought a Soundcraft Venue and a Yamaha 02R and did my studio and live work with that. Than I bought one of the first digital mixers available (Yamaha ProMix01) and did all my small gigs with that. I started in the late 1980s with analog mixers (with a Mitec EX) and the usual siderack and coppercore madness. Im running an intel I7, 16gb ram and a brand new SSD with an updated windows 10 pro and with only presonus software installedĪgain issue is Im having to reinstall Universal control to get my mixer found for S1 pro but when UC crashes I have to reinstall it restart then go through the same issues the next time.I was always interested in alternative ways of mixing. Its even given me the blue screen PFN List twice (which I did a full system check and it was not my hardware issue) SO I've uninstalled then reinstalled Universal Control (latest v1.7) x4 times now and every time I seem to have the same issue start between 10 min to 30 min into a session. Universal control will stop working and will not see my studio live 24.4.2 and when I restart universal control it will not open again. Then it will just disappear as my interface after a few minutes. records in Capture no problem and records in S1 professional no problem. The issue Im having is Universal controller when installed fresh finds the mixer and it runs fine. So I was having issues with my studio live 24.4.2 and audiodropout on my MacBook so I went and purchased a PC with proper firewire.
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