M-audio Firewire 410, which sounds great when it decides it feels like functioning as described in the manual. I use a pair of Klipsch 2.1’s, which have great sound but are not really appropriate for mixing music. And even if i had some good near-fields, the thinness of my walls would prevent me from truly making good use of them. What I should do is pick up some genuinely good headphones.
Blessings,
Damon
Ps.
Can anyone recommend some headphones that are neutral enough (and not too costly) to give me a good overall sound mix balance?
err…well the dap effects do work in renoise. Simply don´t use the xtc mode just install the sfp 3.1 or higher implement fx as you like (eg in the mixer), choose a controller for the knob by right clicking it and typing in the controller value and use the meta midi effect in renoise. 0 Problemo.
Running decent monitors out of an onboard soundcard is just a waste of time and money imo. With a decent souncard, on the other hand, you can still buy a pair of monitor headphones such as K 240s, which are merely a fraction of the price of studio monitors. Even hi-fi speakers could sound OK with a bit of post-EQ applied to them.
Ever had any problems with the 1010 rack? I haven’t, the only niggle was I bought it from the US & it had a 110v PSU, so I had to get an adapter, but working great now. It also doesn’t like shared PCI slots.
emu 0404 here. dirt cheap. has it’s problems though. like unbalanced inputs and drivers that are quite fussy. and the biggest problem is that i can’t get the card’s native vst to load in renoise
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
Great card, except for the fact that it lacks multiclient asio. I had to take latency up to 5ms (been on 4ms before with Reason, and 40ms with 1.281 on DX drivers), and it’s cool 90% of the time. But I didn’t really maxed the CPU yet with Renoise, since I’m doing mostly sample-based music with it.
I get 9ms latency with 384 samples at 44.1 KHz.
What more could I ask for
I also have an USB Edirol PCR-1 (I asked for advice on another thread), and in fact it pretty much rocks. It gives me 17 ms latency on a laptop, very easy to set-up, works. Only bad side, the headphone output has some weird noise if you pump up the volume a bit, but that’s really nothing.
P.S. when I use ASIO in renoise, I cannot sample in an external tool like SoundForge. DirectX is no problem. But… sometimes it does seem to work under ASIO aswell… does anyone know if this is inherant to ASIO (i.e. one application claims ASIO for itself) or is there a way to work around it?
