Re: Audio Interface for Notebook Users

[Dan <danielalbertini72@yahoo.com>]

Is this Brian Good my teacher and assistant from Roberto Venn School of Luthiery?  Wow I think I seen John Rauhouse? on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with a new gal playing guitar too??  I just shot a new music video using the guitars I built and designed (electric)  that will be submitted to MTV supposedly.  How is that washtub bass holdin up???  Peace B With U

P.S. Im setting up a Myspace thing too U there???? 

Brian Good <bsgood@adelphia.net> wrote:

> mech wrote:
> > At 9:25 PM -0500 3/23/06, Brian Good wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> I was just helping a friend with a similar purchase, and we stumbled 
> >> across a couple new interfaces from Alesis. Apparently only the 
> >> smaller of the two is shipping right now. I know absolutely nothing 
> >> about
>  their sound, reliability, or anything else, but they do look 
> >> like they offer a fair bit of functionality for the price. The 
> >> smaller one looks like it only has two line-out channels, which makes 
> >> it not so looper-friendly, but the larger one has 8.
> > 
> > 
> > It may be a non-issue (since these are Firewire, and a different basic 
> > architecture) but I've got a two-channel audio interface built into my 
> > Alesis Photon X25 USB MIDI controller. I've stopped even attempting to 
> > use it. It has a tendency to randomly blast huge noise bursts after 
> > some unspecified period. This is especially fun with headphones on 
> > (like I need any extra help going deaf). It won't stop until you reboot 
> > the computer.
> > 
> > I didn't really care all that much (once my ears stopped ringing). 
> > Frankly, I bought the darn thing primarily for its Axyz controller. 
> > Anything
>  additional is pretty much cake, so I just wrote off that 
> > functionality.
> > 
> > As I said, it might not apply to this series. However, I'm somewhat 
> > leery of the Alesis audio interfaces now, at least in terms of quality 
> > control.
> > 
> > --m.
>
> Heh. That's why you probably don't want to buy version 1.0 of anything, 
> or version 5.0 from some companies. Personally I've had bad luck with 
> an early M-Audio Firewire 410, for example. It seems to know when it's 
> being used in a live performance, because I've had it fail two out of 
> the three times I've used it that way. To be fair, it was running under 
> Windows, where it was more problematic than in my Mac setup, so maybe it 
> was a Microsoft problem, rather than an M-Audio one. But there's 
> nothing quite as much fun as downloading a replacement driver via Wifi 
> during a dress rehearsal from a stage in the middle of the Arizona high
>  
> desert.
>
> Brian

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