Hello, my first question on these forums! I’m new to Renoise, but having a lot of fun with it already. Years ago I had a hardware only setup, now I’m making the shift to software, but I’m not sure what the best way is to connect my hardware synth and drum machine to my Macbook Pro running Renoise.
I’ve almost decided on this Presonus Firestudio Mobile interface, but a couple very basic questions first:
1 - I assume this interface or one like it will reduce latency to almost nothing if I’m using only 2 external synths via MIDI?
2 - Having such an interface does NOT mean that I can add effects in Renoise to the output of my hardware in realtime (they would have to be recorded first)?
Also, has anyone had problems using any Presonus audio interfaces with Renoise? I’d like to make sure I buy an audio interface that integrates without trouble… thanks!
i just can answer the second point.
if you use external synth`s you are able to use the “line in device” on a track and yes, you can use effects on
them, too!
i do it by myself with a waldorf micro q and it works fine.
It should all work just by the looks of it. Mac supported, break-out cable for midi included, firewire, hmhm…
…I have no further experience with PreSonus but it looks good to me
I have experience with Presonus products: I have a Firepod and their headphone amp.
Short review: the build quality on both of them sucks. The headphone amp died in less than a year; I had to mail it out for a repair. The Firepod, after 3 years of normal wear and tear, had an input die on it.
That’s on top of extremely shitty firewire driver support for the Firepod. I have found it very hard to get it working on laptops.
