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Edirol UA20 USB Audio/MIDI Interface 24/44.1kHz

Low latency. Direct Monitoring. 54 People rated this product:

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Manufacturer's Description for Edirol UA20 USB Audio/MIDI Interface 24/44.1kHz

24-Bit, USB Bus-powered, Audio & MIDI 'Dual' Interface
The UA-20 brings portable 24-bit quality to your Mac or PC applications. Your laptop audio is now 24-bit resolution, powered by your computer through the USB bus, and flexible! Connect your guitar, mic and line level input with Edirol's new portable, affordable UA-20 USB MIDI/Audio Interface.

Features:

A complete USB audio recording device of high-definition with 24-bit AD/DA conversion

Low latency with Direct Monitoring function

Direct Monitoring function allows for low latency performance while recording.

ASIO 2.0 (Win/Mac), MME, WDM drivers and Sound Manager (Mac) compatibility
Create with any music software program for Mac or PC. It's compatible with any audio production software and optimized for ASIO or WDM compatible music software for your music creation.

Fast and stable MIDI input/output with FPT

USB bus powered, adaptor free

USB connection supplies power as well as data

Headphone (1/8 in.) jack and headphone volume

Audio/MIDI Interface

Portable

Channels:
1 stereo record
1 stereo playback
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Signal Processing: AD/DA 24-bit

Sample Rate: Digital Out 44.1 kHz

Audio driver compatibility: ASIO2.0 (Win/Mac), WDM, MME, Sound Manager

Inputs: Line/Guitar/Mic x 2

Outputs:
Line (RCA pin) x 2
S/P DIF Optical
Headphone

MIDI Interface: IN x 1/OUT x 1

System Requirements

Macintosh
MacOS 8.5, 8.6, 9.x and OS X
USB ready Apple Macintosh
PowerPC G3/233 MHz or higher
64 MB RAM or more
OMS 2.3.3 or later. FreeMIDI 1.35 or later.

Windows
Microsoft Windows Me/98/98SE/2000/XP
Windows compatible equipped with a USB* port
Pentium Processor 200 MHz or higher
32 MB RAM or more

* Must have a compatible USB host controller.

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Sound: this box is not aimed at people who don't know what they're doing, as the above reviews seem to indicate. i personally had no problems with the UA-20. i plugged it in and installed the driver and with one system reset i was up and running. it seems to me that this box is aimed primarily at the softsynth user. I use Cubase SX, Reason, and AudioMulch for "real-time" soft synthesis. in AudioMulch using the UA-20's WDM specialized driver i can get my stable latency down to 3.2 ms. Reason reports a buffer of 144 samples or 4 ms. if you know what that means i assume you'd be impressed. i paid about $200 for mine, so for that measly sum i'm quite happy with the latency performance. the recording part of the box seems pretty good. because it supports WDM drivers, it has this weird live monitoring mode that you can use in any ASIO-compliant host application such as Cubase SX and AudioMulch. instead of 3ms latency you get something like .5 ms when monitoring a signal "through" the PC. it's pretty neat to be able to play a guitar or do vocals through the PC because you can use any VST or DX plug-in to process the signal, thus allowing you to explore a lot of different processing ideas. the only issues i have had with this box are: in Cubase SX when running about 80 VST insert plug-ins, i started having some issues and had to push up the buffer size a bit. i've got a fairly good system based around an Athlon XP 2400+ running at the stock 2 Ghz, with 1 GB of DDR 400 RAM. i should point out that increasing the buffer size doesn't change the "real-time" monitoring feature-it's still effectively in real time. the only gripe there is that to have your buffer settings take effect you have to close out all your audio applications and then re-open them. along those lines, i had occasional times when the audio just stopped working. that seems to be when the buffer just gets totally under-run, like when you patch in a particularly CPU-intensive effect. in Cubase SX, this sort of behavior is fixed simply by closing and re-opening Cubase. the other major issue with this box is when you use it to process an incoming signal and you put a lot of distortion or overdrive on the incoming signal. doing this reveals some noise that sounds like cross-talk from the host computer. of course, i'm talking about really intense distortion effects that magnify everything a whole lot. for those you really gotta put a gate on the signal. other than that, everything i've tried to do has been really nice. if you're a gigging softsynth user in search of really low latency, this box is a winner. Quality: the entire casing for this box is plastic, which i think puts some people off. i didn't mind it though. Value: find me a USB 2.0 box with the same low-latency WDM performance for cheaper and i'll buy that instead... hehe Manufacturer Support: this is the other thing that didn't impress me. there is one generation of drivers for this box, all at version 1.0 and all almost 2 years old. come on, Roland! gimme an updated driver! The Wow Factor: the blue status LED lights up constantly when your system is powered and the UA-20 is plugged in, which for me was cool.

Style of Music: vocal-oriented industrial trip-hop.

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Sound: The 24bit is clear and using the Optical output makes it very good for sending your signals to Edirol's own Digital monitors (the first of many i suspect). Never had any suggestion of noise like some other review. Feature: No accessories Quality: Carryable and droppable Value: Really the most cost on the market effective for Midi and Audio in the same box. Manufacturer Support: They gave me a little support via e-mail and response came in two days from the UK The Wow Factor: Listening with Senn Headphones really really makes the sound sexy with topnotch VSTi's. They go far beyond the quality of original analog electronic equivalents. I even like the look of it because it matches the colur of laptop. Overall: I may get a Fire-wire or Pcmcia based card in the future but that is only because i am little suspicious that USB doesnot get the best out of a laptop. But the UA20 gets the best out of USB1 that's for sure.

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