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M-Audio Firewire (Solo, Audiofile or 410) - Please help me choose
Hi all,
I am a beginner looking to take my first steps into home recording. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop (Intel Pentium Centrino 1.7GHz, 512 MB RAM, USB2.0, Firewire). I have done some research on Audio interfaces and have come up with the following that seem suitable. M-Audio Firewire Solo (£139.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...LO&context=WEB M-Audio Firewire Audiofile (£165.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...FW&context=WEB M-Audio Firewire 410 (£258.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...10&context=WEB Can anyone help me make my final choice? I don't want to spend more than I need to at this stage. I am happy to settle for 1 or 2 inputs. I would like to monitor the input before it reaches laptop. Should I be looking at an audio interface with midi keyboard built in? ie. is a midi keyboard something I will end up buying to feed into the audio interface at some point anyway (when I get going)? Thanks for any help offered. Paul. |
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news Hi all, I am a beginner looking to take my first steps into home recording. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop (Intel Pentium Centrino 1.7GHz, 512 MB RAM, USB2.0, Firewire). I have done some research on Audio interfaces and have come up with the following that seem suitable. M-Audio Firewire Solo (£139.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...LO&context=WEB M-Audio Firewire Audiofile (£165.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...FW&context=WEB M-Audio Firewire 410 (£258.99) http://www.turnkey.co.uk/tkweb/stock...10&context=WEB Can anyone help me make my final choice? I don't want to spend more than I need to at this stage. I am happy to settle for 1 or 2 inputs. I would like to monitor the input before it reaches laptop. Should I be looking at an audio interface with midi keyboard built in? ie. is a midi keyboard something I will end up buying to feed into the audio interface at some point anyway (when I get going)? Thanks for any help offered. Paul. Do you need the XLR inputs and phantom power for microphones? That's one of the big differences in features and price. Also, the Solo does not have MIDI ports. I see that the Solo has one XLR with phantom, but for WIndows, *requires* XP SP2. "Pentium III - 500 MHz 128 MB RAM Windows XP (SP2) with DirectX 9.0c Onboard FireWire connection or installed IEEE1394 PCI card "The FireWire Solo is not supported under Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me or Windows 2000." The 410 drivers (the ones I have, anyway) don't work properly under XP SP2. After installing SP2, I had to roll back to SP1 and use a utility to block the auto-install of SP2. "Pentium III 500 MHz w/ 128MB RAM Windows 2000 (SP4) / XP (SP1) DirectX 8.1 or higher 6-pin FireWire port or adapter" HTH -pk |
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