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04-13-2007, 03:37 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: swing on the spiral of our divinity
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Well... I took a leap.... got an Alesis IO26 coming..
Will post a review of some kind once I've had a week or so to play about with it.
A dude is coming tomorrow at noon to buy my Layla3G - I really hope I'm not going to regret selling it!!
Only time will tell on the Alesis. I've read one review saying that the drivers for the mac aren't that good, but thats one review, and I'm on a PC.
Will post more once there is more...
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04-16-2007, 04:20 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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why did you sell the 3g? i mean, in what ways are you expecting the alesis to be better?
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04-16-2007, 06:53 AM
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I needed the portability. There was nothing wrong with the Layla3G.
The Alesis is doing fine at the moment, the WDM drivers are a bit buggy though. ASIO is perfectly fine.
Last edited by Amberience; 04-16-2007 at 10:10 AM.
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04-16-2007, 07:43 AM
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I'd be interested in your experience with the Alesis. I am considering one, though in no rush at the moment.
Give us a review when you have time
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04-16-2007, 10:13 AM
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Well when I'm recording everything is fine. No drop outs at 128 buffer size. Good latency performance (the driver panel reports 2.9ms but I think thats just input, so the whole thing is at least 8ms probably)
But when I'm listening to mp3's in Winamp or watching movies in Winamp or Windows Media Player, there are sometimes drop outs. This mostly occurs when I use WDM, but also sometimes when I use ASIO.
When I minimize winamp, it cuts out until its fully minimized - but if I use the WDM driver, this doesn't happen.
So the sound quality is very good. At least as good as the Layla was. But the performance of the unit can vary depending on the application. It is perfectly capable of recording all eight analog inputs without a hitch in Reaper.
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04-16-2007, 11:16 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Amberience
Well when I'm recording everything is fine. No drop outs at 128 buffer size. Good latency performance (the driver panel reports 2.9ms but I think thats just input, so the whole thing is at least 8ms probably)
But when I'm listening to mp3's in Winamp or watching movies in Winamp or Windows Media Player, there are sometimes drop outs. This mostly occurs when I use WDM, but also sometimes when I use ASIO.
When I minimize winamp, it cuts out until its fully minimized - but if I use the WDM driver, this doesn't happen.
So the sound quality is very good. At least as good as the Layla was. But the performance of the unit can vary depending on the application. It is perfectly capable of recording all eight analog inputs without a hitch in Reaper.
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Hi,
Sounds like they are probably using the same FW chip from the other Alesis units which the same one that Mackies uses. What Firewire Chipset does your computer use?
Chris
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