gear lust

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Midiman's Audiophile 2496 is tasty and cheap: good-quality stereo analog I/O, S/PDIF, MIDI, ALSA drivers, $150 street. The Delta 1010 is droolworthy: 8-channel analog with -108dBA floor, plus S/PDIF and MIDI and word clock. But $600.

By eyeing absurd flyhammer gear like that, I can think of the Delta 44 as a sensible compromise: only four channels, only $275, expandable. But, honestly, do you know how many channels of respectable mic input I have to feed it? Two. Stick with the 2496 until you at least get back into making music regularly, you gearhound. Also, the 44 has no MIDI.

The Hoontech DSP24 Value is another nice entry-level card, except nobody's gotten around to writing a Linux driver yet.

Hmm. I should count and see if I need more than 16 MIDI channels. Then I'd need a dedicated MIDI card, so I might as well get the 44...

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Looks like I deleted a duplicate entry at the same time as seanmcguire replied to it. Pesky race condition. He said:

Dude, where are you finding a 1010 for $600? The MSRP is about $1k...

Check out zzounds.com -- $570 there. (I've bought a couple of things from them with no problems...)

[seanmcguire.livejournal.com]

Cool. I bought my guitar and electronic drum kit there, so I'd have no qualms about ordering more from them.

Not for a few months though yet. Gotta keep reminding myself it'll be a few months before I can upgrade my studio system.

Even though I really want it Right Now.