Apogee is definetly worth it if you're serious about recording and playing, but just like you wrote; something like Focusrite Scarlett or Audient iD-series would be a good middle ground between those.
Also built-in headphone amplifiers in laptops are the worst lacklusters in terms of audio production, difference is pretty big when compared to headphone outputs that audio interfaces usually have. Metropolis , Jun 1, Messages: 2, Likes Received: 1, I would be interested to see how the Duet would compare with something like a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 or any of the other budget but not super cheap interfaces.
Messages: 1, Likes Received: Great thread! Thanks for all the work behind compiling this data and writing the post. I understand the Babyface has other features that the Duet doesn't have, but I'd be interested in latency and sound quality e. Any recommendations between those two interfaces would be greatly welcomed or other suggestions.
HungryGuitarStudent , Jun 1, Messages: 17, Likes Received: 7, You should start a fund so that you can buy each interface and repeat this experiment with each one. I have a strong feeling it'll be like pretty much anything else, where the more costly units are consistently better than the cheaper ones, but the law of diminishing returns will render that point useless somewhere around the price level of the most popular interfaces.
The iRig is fine for what it is. I mean, I had no expectation that it'd do much more than allow me to somehow get my guitar signal into my tablet in a rudimentary way. Since my tablet is Android, the iRig software for it is horrible. I have virtually no amp models anywhere near useable in a recording, and maybe 2 that are sketchpad quality acceptable. I was hoping to use it for noodling around and recording some ideas, but by the time I deal with all of the cables and floppy shit dangling around that I need to secure in order to play, I find it easier to just use something else.
Waste of money. Focusrite is a damn good interface. It was the easiest to setup, use, route, and came with free plugins.
It was slightly noticable though. I don't have a hard time believing that Apogee and UA are even better. I'm happy with the quality of my recordings and mixes. About a grand for an AI seems like more than enough for my uses. Its like everything in electronics. As you go up in quality, the pound for pound price goes up exponentially. Same with synths. A Micromac sounds great, but a Boomstar also sounds really really good. Not really that close in price though.
If you can't make good music with the Boomstar, I don't know what you're doing. I also appreciate that some people have plenty of money and want the best of the best. Have at it. UAD stuff seems way over priced to me considering you still have to buy the plug ins on top of the hardware, I'd prefer to spend my audio interface money on MOTU, their new Thunderbolt interfaces are awesome..
By this logic, software should be free. Engineers don't come cheap. Experienced engineers who know what they're doing are even more expensive.
Developing a robust, bug-free and high-quality product takes a lot of time. Divide the total development cost by the amount of estimated customers, add a margin and you've got your market price. Do the math yourself. Apogee was the first company that had converters with a positive sound coloration in the 90's.
They have maintained a rep ever since by not ever putting out bad converters. I have never used UAD, so I can't comment about them. A toolbar is provided with two sets of buttons: one, to the left, that lets you toggle the visibility of two sidebars and windows, and another, to the right, that gives you the same global functions clear peaks, talkback, and mute all as the Essentials window. Curiously, the second set also includes a help button, which opens a floating help window to provide information about the control the mouse pointer is currently hovering over.
Surely this would be more logically included in the first set? The two sidebars provide settings for System, like the clock source and sample rate, which would affect both master and slave Elements if two are connected, and Device. The Mixer section, is, unsurprisingly, where you control the direct monitoring mixers that are built into the Element hardware. The output of each mixer can be routed to either the speaker or headphone outputs, which is handy if you want different mixes for headphone monitoring rather than the main mix being monitored on speakers.
Additionally, the output of Mixer 1 is routed back to the Element driver, making it possible feed it back into your music and audio application of choice as one of the available inputs.
In the case of the Element 46, this was input Aside from routing, these mixers provide all the familiar controls for settings like level, pan and mute, with Mixer 1 providing solo controls, complete with solo-safe functionality if you control-click a solo button. The additional mixers also feature a pre-fader mode, which, when enabled, means the levels of Mixer 1 have no impact on the levels of the other mixers. As with the additional mixers, the FX Send mixer also offers a pre-fader mode.
The Essentials window provides compact access to the inputs and outputs. As in the Essentials window, each output has a volume control along with three buttons to mute, dim, or sum-to-mono a given output, and a source selector.
The Output Source Selector lets you specify whether to use a playback channel or any of the mixers or the effects send as the source for a given output; selecting a playback channel directly effectively bypasses the mixers completely. Talkback enables you to assign any of the mic inputs as the talkback mic, and, when you press the talkback button, the signal from the assigned microphone is routed to the talkback destination as you would expect.
However, Apogee have gone one step cleverer and made it possible to use any Core Audio input as the talkback source. To have a cheaper interface that sacrifices front-panel controls rather than quality to reach a lower price seems like a good approach — especially if you were never going to use them. In my office, for example, my day-to-day audio interface is thrown behind the desk and I adjust output levels from an on-screen mixer.
Love this thing.. So, I decided to check out Apogee. I was beyond impressed and completely blown away by the quality of the The Apogee Duet for iPad and Mac. First of all, it is build solidly and the construction is second-to-none.
The ease of use with the front display is remarkable, and the Maestro 2 software is wonderful to navigate. Apogee has surely earned its name — they are definitely at the apogee of the audio industry!
Michael from NJ From Sweetwater. I have the older Ensemble and thought that was marvelous, so when I needed a small interface for simple stereo recording I bought the Duet. What a great purchase.
Great work Apogee! Brandon from minnesconsin From Sweetwater. The sound is spectacular even if you just listen to iTunes through it, you miss it when you are not listening through it. I also have done several remote sessions at a singers house and used my iPhone 5S and Garageband, works perfectly!
Meez From Amazon. To take that same technology and put it in a portable unit where now it can be used with the technology of today is pretty amazing. Philing From Amazon. The unit worked well enough but the included software was dated and the instructions were incredibly tedious. The included software was better but the manual was over pages pages for a digital audio interface??
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