Good midrange USB sound cards these days?

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Good midrange USB sound cards these days?

Postby Wen » Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:18 pm

Hi.

Due to having more free time in the near future im planning to reinstall my all music tools again that i lost due to a HDD crash couple years ago - with the Orion of course being the virtual studio to tinker around with.

Also now looking for good sound card/audio interface - i dont want to put up with 40ms+ latency anymore.

I dont need many audio inputs, just need USB, good quality, good latency and perhaps nice bundled software.

After a quick search to see what has changed last few years, im currently looking at Komplete Audio 6, mostly because it seems to be bundled with quite nice instruments. Anybody else had experience using Komplete Audio with orion?
Any other suggestions?
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Re: Good midrange USB sound cards these days?

Postby nix » Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:17 pm

I lost my laptop soundcard in a fire, so the replacement I will get is this->
http://www.mackie.com/products/onyxblackjack/
I have had pretty good lifetimes with Mackie.
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Re: Good midrange USB sound cards these days?

Postby bones » Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:52 pm

This looks like a good all-in-one starter package and if you don't want/need the headphones and mic you can get the interface unit as a stand-alone - http://www.musictech.net/2013/02/focusr ... st-review/

Then there is this. We've been using Line 6 USB stuff for ages - UX2 and later a KB37 - and had no problems at all. Pod Farm is a great addition and, like us, you'll probably end up buying the plugins as well as the bundled stand-alone that works with the units - http://line6.com/computer#audiointerfaces

Of course, these days I mostly use ASIO4all with my laptop's soundcard and it works perfectly well. We really only use the USB interface on stage and when we're recording vocals.
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