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What is considered "professional" for audio interface?
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piXan
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 03:32:59
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between interfaces like MOTU, TC , Lexicon, Focusrite, Tascam and RME which has more professional quality for a professional project studio?
thanx for input i wanna invest in a really solid interface for many years to come
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Suloo
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 12:47
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RME all the way! most stable drivers and best converters of your mentioned interfaces.And nice and very clean preamps.
like fireface 400 or 800 
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PoM
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 13:28
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from rme 800 have better converters 400 better preamps , none are " professional", metric halo and prism make professional interface. |
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Eleusene
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 14:05
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+ Benchmark, Lavry, Apogee, Mytek, Lynx... for the big budget.
Imo for an ambitious or semi-pro project studio you don't go wrong with RME.
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orange
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 18:49
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On 2010-09-22 12:47, Zork wrote:
RME all the way! most stable drivers and best converters of your mentioned interfaces.And nice and very clean preamps.
like fireface 400 or 800
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ok fore the price and sound quality focusrite has the edge here...
im super happy with my rme ff400 it has very good preamps and ad/da and ultra stable drivers and a very good and sturdy design but kinda over priced.
but focusrite has the best mic preamps for the sub 1000e tag but not that good on low latency.
tc has the best included software... but bad drivers.
tascam is pretty crappy.
motu is great and super stable... for macs
lexicon is ok.
presonus is also fine.
native instruments has some nice pieces in that price range.
prism, metric halo, apogee etc. are ultra great and ultra expensive and i think for a home/semi pro studio is an overkill.. this kind of interfaces are for well balanced and very well made studios that the small detail makes a difference!
http://www.landmark-recordings.com/
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Suloo
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 19:32
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Lynx Aurora is killa..dream.. 
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Eleusene
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 19:41
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PoM
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 20:57
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On 2010-09-22 12:47, Zork wrote:
RME all the way! most stable drivers and best converters of your mentioned interfaces.And nice and very clean preamps.
like fireface 400 or 800
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ok fore the price and sound quality focusrite has the edge here...
im super happy with my rme ff400 it has very good preamps and ad/da and ultra stable drivers and a very good and sturdy design but kinda over priced.
but focusrite has the best mic preamps for the sub 1000e tag but not that good on low latency.
tc has the best included software... but bad drivers.
tascam is pretty crappy.
motu is great and super stable... for macs
lexicon is ok.
presonus is also fine.
native instruments has some nice pieces in that price range.
prism, metric halo, apogee etc. are ultra great and ultra expensive and i think for a home/semi pro studio is an overkill.. this kind of interfaces are for well balanced and very well made studios that the small detail makes a difference!
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agree imo very true , not only focusrite but i supsect steinberg/yamaha ,echo audio to be in same league as rme for less money (but rme have good drivers with low latency) |
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Mike A
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Posted : Sep 22, 2010 22:50
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And the differences were very small, in very certain areas, when making an A/B test.
To be honest, just get something and stick with it. There is no better. There is different.
RME's are known for having excellent drivers, even though I never used one. They are very pricey though. I'm on MOTU UltraLite which is ok. Sounds good, 95% stable.
Besides, if you're not going to record anything it doesn't matter much.
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piXan
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Posted : Sep 23, 2010 06:47
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orange
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Posted : Sep 23, 2010 08:49
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Nectarios
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Posted : Sep 23, 2010 10:49
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Focusrite Saffire owner here. Very happy, great stereo imaging, sounds much better than my old Delta 1010, and what's wrong with its drivers? works fine on my OSX MacPro and MacBookPro when we do the live sets.
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orange
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Posted : Sep 23, 2010 12:45
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drivers are fine... the only "drawback" is that it cant handle very low latencys like RME.
i could not get it to work on my pc under 10ms stable without cracking and popping in the same projects like my rme ff400 went down to 6ms with no problem at all.
its irrelevant if you dont like to play midi in realtime.
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Suloo
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Posted : Sep 23, 2010 23:53
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We had several Focusrite Saffires wich actualy fired up and where smoke came out of the interface ...lol
But its like 2 to 3 years ago..maybe the new ones are more solid, don`t know but just keep in mind..unplug the interface when you leave the studio
cheers
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Nectarios
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