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New studio gear day! Nothing fancy, but after a trip to the Rockshop today to see Dave I now have an M-Audio 2x2M interface and an Akai MIDIMix controller, will be awesome for controlling Ableton Live and will go nicely with my MPK Mini MkII keyboard....
Why the M-Audio and not a Scarlett? well... part of the reason was it comes with $500 USD worth of software from Air Music Tech, and I dare say I will use all of it, plus I really like the look and feel of the M-Audio, the rear mic jacks are great, big knobs on top are always a favourite for me too! Plus for future awesomeness it's USB-C and 2, altho' my macbook is only thunderbolt 2 so I don't think it can take usb-c.... might be an adapter available, but in the meantime normal old USB-2 will be fine!
Why the M-Audio and not a Scarlett? well... part of the reason was it comes with $500 USD worth of software from Air Music Tech, and I dare say I will use all of it, plus I really like the look and feel of the M-Audio, the rear mic jacks are great, big knobs on top are always a favourite for me too! Plus for future awesomeness it's USB-C and 2, altho' my macbook is only thunderbolt 2 so I don't think it can take usb-c.... might be an adapter available, but in the meantime normal old USB-2 will be fine!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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Re: NSGD
Nicejeremyb wrote:New studio gear day! Nothing fancy, but after a trip to the Rockshop today to see Dave I now have an M-Audio 2x2M interface and an Akai MIDIMix controller, will be awesome for controlling Ableton Live and will go nicely with my MPK Mini MkII keyboard....
Why the M-Audio and not a Scarlett? well... part of the reason was it comes with $500 USD worth of software from Air Music Tech, and I dare say I will use all of it, plus I really like the look and feel of the M-Audio, the rear mic jacks are great, big knobs on top are always a favourite for me too! Plus for future awesomeness it's USB-C and 2, altho' my macbook is only thunderbolt 2 so I don't think it can take usb-c.... might be an adapter available, but in the meantime normal old USB-2 will be fine!
And good to see you like big knobs
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Re: NSGD
nice!
A new interface is something i really need-the THR10 does a good enough job but some variety for the in/outs would be nice....eh? EH!
A new interface is something i really need-the THR10 does a good enough job but some variety for the in/outs would be nice....eh? EH!
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Was in the same boat, the HD does a pretty decent job too as an interface, has a mic in as well, but it's a pain to get out if I'm recording something other than guitar...Kris wrote:nice!
A new interface is something i really need-the THR10 does a good enough job but some variety for the in/outs would be nice....eh? EH!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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No issues so far, you do see some people complaining on the net about m-audio and their windows drivers though which would make me a little wary... I'm using a Mac so it requires none as it's class compliant or whatever they call it
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
Re: NSGD
Hah, well it turns out fate (and the Rockshop) have decided i shouldn't get one of these.
Visited 2 Rockshops today, both who confirmed prior that they had the 2x2M midi version in stock, and when I got there they only had the non midi version
Visited 2 Rockshops today, both who confirmed prior that they had the 2x2M midi version in stock, and when I got there they only had the non midi version
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The universe has spoken!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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Re: NSGD
it just wasn't meant to be...
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Bit of an update on this, very pleased with the M-Audio interface so far, got my little studio setup for guitar as well, got the HD500X going in stereo into the M-Audio interface via XLR's, and the outputs of the M-Audio go into my Stagesource L2T and I can have headphones connected as well and they don't mute the output... stoked!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.