Well, the mic pres in the presonus are good, but you did get my other post about the problems with it. They don't make the one I have any more so I can't speak for their newer stuff, but if you have the a/d option on your octa-pre you could use anything with adat optical inputs. MOTU does make a light pipe only interface, but I don't know if it has any analog outputs to connect it to a mixer or whatever. I did train somebody a long time ago who had one, but I forget what he was monitoring through. Tascam makes some pretty good interfaces with both analog and adat inputs that are usb2. I have one of the older ones but don't use it much, but I did have it working a while back in pro tools, though it was probably just regular lion then. I don't know if they've gotten around to supporting Mavericks yet. Roland is also making bigger versions of their audio capture line, the little 2x that I just got is really pretty good, running it down to 96 sample buffers with pretty good results. Gord On Apr 6, 2014, at 1:41 AM, Steve Sparrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey > Gord. I had forgotten about the Avid solution. This sounds like a possible > plan. I wonder how well that stuff works with voice over. I guess it would > not be very hard to find out. Easy enough to get a mac talking anywhere for a > demo. > How ever, i'd also be interested in your thoughts on the pre sonus. I'm > pretty sure you said you use one. I know a lot of people on here, and also > midi mag use one. How do you find the mic press. I will not rule this unit > out if the access is there and it sounds good. > > I also bought an octo pree myself recently and i am very happy with the sound > i get out of it. If the pree sonus was of similar quality, I'd possibly go > with that. If it is also compatible with mack. > > You bought back some memories talking about the old a dat machines. I did not > run a dats, but i had 3 taskam d a machines locked up together running > through an analogue mackie desk. Those were the good old analogue days. > Not sure that i could go all the way back there now. How did we live without > automation. But we did, and produced great music at the same time. > SteveOn 6 Apr 2014, at 2:15 pm, Gordon Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey, if you are going that high=end you might want to look at one of the >> Avid surface/interfaces. I know the digi 003 is discontinued but they must >> have something new like that and it would be totally integrated with Pro >> Tools. In any case, you'll need to get some a/d converters. I have the >> Presonus 8 channel one and the focusright octa-pre with the optional a/d >> module, and even a little behringer 8 channel converter whicch is OK for >> feeding in the output of hardware synths or drum machines although you may >> need to feed a clock signal into it to keep it from popping and crackling, >> but it's only $150 or so. I've even heard of guys using their old adat >> machines just for a/d though you would only get 16-bit resolution from them. >> I still have one around believe it or not, at one time I had three of those >> suckers chasing each other to lock up, and controled them with MMC from the >> old cakewalk professional. >> Gord >> On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Steve Sparrow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys. I am upgrading my studio set up, and looking for a good sound card >>> to run pro tools on mhy mack. Just wondering what some of you are running. >>> I am very interested in the motu 896 mark 3 hybrid. Seems to have all the I >>> o I need, and the preamps look good. >>> I spoke to gorden kent about this card, and he gave me the upside and >>> downside of the interface. But he has not used it on mack. >>> I wonder how accessable it is on the mack with voice over. >>> I have also thought about some of the r m e cards, U F X and UCX. >>> also universal audio apollo. I know the pluggins are accessable with uad, >>> but not sure about the asio panel. >>> I've also thought about the pre sonus cards. although I don't think there >>> specks are as good as far as the pree amps go. >>> I am looking for as much I o as possible. e.g. 8 ins and outs. 8 mic line >>> prees if possible, but not necessary, and a dat, and midi. >>> There are Lots of great interfaces to choos from, but I'm very confused as >>> to just what will give me good accessabillity with voice over. >>> Any thoughts welcome. >>> Steve >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
