Recording Interfaces

farv22 · Post by **farv22** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:15 pm

I'm looking for a way to record and monitor from live 5 on Mac OS. What interface are you using and how is it working out. I need to find something that actually works...

Winterpark · Post by **Winterpark** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:15 am

they all work.

the questions you need to ask yourself are:

how much money do i want to spend?

how many ins and outs do i really need?

what type of ins/outs do i need? (xlr/rca/phono/digital?)

do i want to play things through my soundcard (thus need a card with a low latency)

once you've decided these things, the enormous range of soundcards becomes a little easy to navigate.

You mention you want to be able to monitor through it... many cards do this. the M-box has a user friendly way of monitoring i reckon....

farv22 · Post by **farv22** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:34 am

Actually, I have an iMac and am using a tascam us-122. Unfortunately, it's not working properly, It's only being seen in ableton as a midi input source and output source. So, maybe if you have any ideas on things that actually work to record analog sources.... that would definitely help.

Winterpark · Post by **Winterpark** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:42 am

farv22 wrote:Actually, I have an iMac and am using a tascam us-122. Unfortunately, it's not working properly, It's only being seen in ableton as a midi input source and output source. So, maybe if you have any ideas on things that actually work to record analog sources.... that would definitely help.

well... the tascam should work.... you should go to the tascam site and find out what the problem with it is.

maybe a driver issue?

glsimonsen · Post by **glsimonsen** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:13 pm

I use an aging M-audio Duo USB. It works well for my purposes, nothing fancy and cheap, but sounds good. No problems w/ Live 4 on a Mac.

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:57 pm

You could use just the built in audio interface. I'm not a Mac guy, but I think it is pretty decent?

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:58 pm

Love my MOTU Traveller, sounds great and easy to setup, also has zero latency monitoring internally, so you don't have to tie up CPU by monitoring your external gear through Live.

Not cheap tho' (not super expensive either) got mine for $1200 Canadian

Also has the same footprint as a 15" powerbook and can be powered off of the firewire bus.