Overall:
If you use Windows Vista or plan on switching to Vista, your M-Audio equipment isn't going to work the way it did in XP. M-Audio has a Vista driver for the Fast Track USB but it doesn't always work. I downloaded the driver from M-Audio’s support page and installed it as instructed. Within minutes I was up and running. Everything seemed to be working fine at first. I had Ableton Live 7 and Reason 4.0 running. After a few hours of working, I started to get distorted popping sounds. It happened as I was recording guitar and during playback. I saved all of my work, closed the programs and uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for the Fast Track. When I played back the track I was working on earlier, the popping sounds were gone so I didn’t think anything of it. However, when I tried to work on music later that week, the distorted popping sounds were back. I was thinking about upgrading to the M-Audio Fast Track Pro Mobile but a friend of mine who owns one, and also runs Vista, encountered the same sound issue I did with the Fast Track USB. As of today, M-Audio only has a beta-driver for Fast Track Pro Mobile. The driver for the Fast Track USB is not a beta and still has issues. I had a sound issue with an M-Audio USB Uno as well (which I also wrote a review for). Personally, I will not purchase anymore M-Audio products due to their poor Vista drivers.

• User: a customer from gmail.com
• Submitted: 3/7/2008
• Style of Music: Hip Hop, Electronica, Rock
• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Feature:
It working great even with others Guitar Amp modeling effects software.It run On MY window xp pro with 3.2 GHz processor.No on/off switch on this box but not a major problem

Quality:
Very good for 99 buck, you don't need to buy all those effects for your sound.You can even download free guitar effects software to play with fun to record you music

Value:
Good investment so far with this product

Sound:
Sound very good for my guitar,Lots of effects to play with on M-Audio session software.got it for x-mas really love it easy to record multi track software but no time marker for this software

Ease of Use:
It was take me half an hour to set up.Too bad there is on out put to Guitar amps.it can only connect to Speaker amps or Headphone.doesn't not work with computer speaker very well.

Support:
web site support was OK.

• Submitted: 1/20/2008
• Style of Music: folk rock ,Hard rock
• Location: PA,USA

Feature:
The extra software struck me as being a bit of a sell out. Basically, advertising products that I don't want. I felt kind of ambushed by that and wasted a few hours trying to figure them out. I know now; they're Frisbees! The unit is fine though.

Quality:
It's what it's supposed to be. Small & functional. I honestly couldn't care less about the appearance. (Which is fine, by the way) Seems quite well made.

Value:
Short answer... "Yes" it's worth the money because it's a must have.

Desirability:
I'm giving you five points for the blue light.

Ease of Use:
My needs are simple. I want to get clean sound from a good mic, into my PC. This is all I need, for now. The sound is excellent and the unit does not create any problems for me. I'll pass this one along to a friend when I decide to upgrade for Phantom power.

Support:
I paid $92 for this piece of equipment. It's affordable but not downright cheap. Still at that price, I'm not likely to waste your time. If it breaks down, I'll upgrade.

Overall:
I'll use this until I really need something else. Could be next month or next year but I will pass it on.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 9/21/2007
• Style of Music: Folk

Feature:
Its very simple and does not have many features, but like others have said you get what you paid for.

Quality:
It gives off the impression of being flimsy and cheap, but its pretty durable(I wouldn't drop too many times though)

Value:
Its worth the money, but if I would have known the quality before I bought it I would have bought something a little better.

Desirability:
Its good if you want to have a little fun in the backseat(recording on the road)

Sound:
The sound is pretty good but,I don't think it is quite cd quality. If you use different software(I use Fl Studio)then I think you should be able to get a decent sound.

Ease of Use:
There is hardly anything to it. It is very easy to set up and like I said before it should produce a pretty good sound with different software.

Support:
So far I haven't needed any support

Overall:
I would recommend this product for beginners. It doesnt have the best features or sound but, it gets the job done.

• User: a customer from aol.com
• Submitted: 4/23/2007
• Style of Music: Rock/Hip Hop
• Location: Tx

Feature:
The software that comes with it is just demos but they work just fine!

Quality:
no problems...dont plan to bang it around...it just sits there!

Value:
great

Desirability:
I had to have it to use the plug ins and Guitar Rig without latency...of which I get 5 ms!!!

Sound:
I get clean vocals/acoustic guitar and the electric is fine as well. I use Guitar Rig and the plug ins with Cubase so that can adjust just about anything!

Ease of Use:
Worked fine the first time updated the drivers as well have redone my machine since then and it still works after a re-install. These other folks dont understand computers if they cant get this to work...take it to a tech shop!!!

Support:
dont need to use it yet...but the M-Audio website is great

Overall:
I have small condenser mics now with their own power but i would upgrade to the next model to get the phantom power for the new ribbon mic that I want to buy!

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 2/16/2007
• Style of Music: Rock, Country, Folk
• Location: Canada

Feature:
Software sucks and shouldn't even be included as a part of the package since it's only a demo. The box itself has guitar and line in which really don't make any sense coz you can switch in btwn the 2 with no difference. Then comes the mono and stereo part in the front, which is totally topsy turvey coz when I switch to mono, that's when I hear through both monitors but if I switch to stereo, my sound recording comes out through one speaker, wierd...no...poor workmanship on their part.

Quality:
Plastic is not attractive but you get what you pay for. As I mentioned before about having to unplug the device and plug it back in just to get it back to life after my computer goes into sleep mode when I leave it idle for a little while.

Value:
Spend a little more and get something better. My 30-day warranty is still good so I will upgrade.

Desirability:
looks like a fisher price toy but will get the job done.

Sound:
Clear sound through the mic and once you get through the buffer configuration.

Ease of Use:
Plug and play, you have to install the drivers from the website depending on what system you have. Kinda frustrating if you don't know about this but you'll get over it when you think about how much you paid. Also, when your computer goes into sleep mode and you wake it back up, the devicestops working, and I always have to unplug the USB cable and plug it back in to get to "wake up" as well. Not good.

Support:
no weekend support. We need them more on weekends when we focus on the music.

Overall:
Probably a couple of months before I replace it with something that has a broader span of functions. I'm building my home studio so I just needed something to get me started, now that I know the basics, I will upgrade.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 2/2/2007
• Style of Music: Rap/Hip-Hop
• Location: Durham, NC, USA

Feature:
Simple yet effective but the some of the software is garbage.

Quality:
Strong and durable plastic. dropped a couple times and still works like a charm.

Value:
U get what you pay for. worth about a 100 hundred bucks.

Desirability:
Damn sexy LOL

Sound:
The is about as good as CD quality. Way better than the build-in soundcard but not as good as other more exspensive Audio Interfaces/

Ease of Use:
Install drivers, plug in and your done.

Support:
Good no problems yet..

Overall:
Good for beginners and budget minded folk/

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 1/17/2007
• Style of Music: Hip Hop and RnB
• Location: Bridgeport, Michigan, USA

Feature:
Never could get the guitar to record right. It has a switch on the back of the unit to manually switch lines from mic to guitar. What a joke! Doesnt work right.

Quality:
NOT RELIABLE...broke after about 15-20 of use....terrible humming noise.

Value:
Get what you pay for....remember that.

Desirability:
Not sure if I'll ever buy another M-audio product. Reviews suggested it was a good product. Found out the hard way after a 100 bucks....

Sound:
The sound was descent, but the sound level going into Cubase was a nightmare...

Ease of Use:
Not many switch, so a beginner could use it.

Support:
Never used it....b/c warranty ran out.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 1/16/2007
• Style of Music: Acoustic
• Location: Richmond, VA

Sound:
had this thing a while...was bummed out cuz the latency issues mostly but the sounds in the gt express package are okay and ya don't need to have expensive fx processors, amps, mics, ect. am sure there are other applications that will work with this device. to be honest i'd had this out quite some time ago, didn't like it, tried updates ect, put it back in the box, but then a friend told me he had the same unit, that the company had new drivers that made it play with almost no latency so i got it back outta the box, dl'd new drivers and am very happy with it now. there's a newer model, the pro i think that might be worth looking into for someone not owning one yet, but for me this is now gonna get used to drop guitar riffs into my computer based home recording studio. rock on!

• User: noway
• Submitted: 12/24/2006
• Style of Music: rock
• Location: too far north

Feature:
i don't play guitar so I wasn't interested in the software. I just wanted a nice mic input to record my horns. It has an XLR input which is sexy.

Quality:
Mechanically it looks great. Very clean and neat. Contrary to others' comments, it's feels solid. I actually opened it up once and was impressed, my motherboard doesn't have soldering that looks that neat. It doesn't appear to be very complicated. It's definitely a home product though, I wouldn't call it rugged. I'm not afraid of dropping it. Actually I'm afraid of throwing it through my window, except my window is worth too much.

Value:
I haven't gotten it to work after owning it for a year.

Sound:
awful. Nothing but noise coming into my computer. I bought it to get rid of the fuzz on my tiny laptop mic input. I can't even understand my voice when i record through this thing.

Ease of Use:
impossible. I've tried everything outside the box. New mic cable. (I've tested my mic on other equipment, crystal clear.) My mic sounds good through the headphone monitor jack too. Only records crap inside my computer though. I tried disabling Intel SpeedStep in my Bios like m-audio's "knowledge base" mentions. All that did was make my boot up slower. I updated drivers for all of my hardware, USB, motherboard, CPU, the fasttrack. All I can say after that is that I've never seen so many error messages trying to update drivers as with this thing. I even replaced my USB cable. Didn't help.

Support:
I hate phones so i didn't call anyone. figured someone making computer equipment should account for that. Driver updates aren't digitally signed so, the developers hate Microsoft? Maybe I would have more luck with a Mac.

Overall:
I'm looking for something that I can use as a mic input, since that's all I really want. Not about to throw $100 away on something like this again.

• Submitted: 6/22/2006

Sound:
Very weak signal.

Ease of Use:
Easy to use. I wish it worked better.

Support:
Customer support not user friendly and after a month could not get the unit working the way it should (problem is weak signal unless I play through an amplifier which defeats the purpose).

Overall:
I've had it for 2 months, would not buy it again. Poor compatability with Creative and Realtek soundcards. Poor customer support. Bundled software is lightyears behind Line 6's.

• Submitted: 6/9/2006
• Style of Music: Blues, Jazz, Rock
• Location: New York

Feature:
Like I said before, it's bascally a USB direct box. It would have been nice if it has phantom power but for $100, not much can be expected

Quality:
Not the greatest quality, but I haven't had any fuctionality problems with it in the couple months I've has it.

Value:
If you're just starting home recording, it gets the job done. If you're knowledgable about computer based recording, you already know that a firewire direct box is the way to go.

Desirability:
It's a direct box, nothing fancy...

Sound:
It's just a direct box really, so it sounds like whatever you put through it....The only sound issues I have is the fact that there is a significant delay in the monitoring, you cen set a faster responce but you lose significant sound quality.

Ease of Use:
Worked right out of the box. It seems some of these people have had problems with this working at all. 1. I would imagine if you have older USB ports on your motherboard, you could run into problems or 2. Make sure you set it to 16 bit sound because alot of sequencer software doesn't work in 24bit.

Support:
I wouldn't know, never had to use it.

Overall:
Most of the time you can live by this rule....Cheap recording gear isn't good and good recording gear isn't cheap.....so basically you get what you pay for.

• Submitted: 2/28/2006

Feature:
Real basic.... would be nice if they would work.

Quality:
I would expect a bit better construction for $100.00 Seems real cheap and flimsly. I would be real careful not to drop or bang it around

Value:
If you just have an extra $100.00 to spend, mail it to me. You will be getting the same value for your dollar, and I will be making a few bucks

Desirability:
it looks good, nice little light on the front, outerspace control knobs. I just wish that they would do something

Sound:
can't get a sound out of it. Has caused all sorts of major install problems. I have been working with tech support for over 5 days now and the last response said that my operating system is installed for Virtual IRC and that "might" be casuing the problem.

Ease of Use:
unuseable right out of the box. thought that the first one was bad so it was sent back and a replacement sent out. It did not work eigther.

Support:
Fairly good response time. (3 days) 5 responses since and unit still won't work. Seems kinda like they are reaching into a hat and reading off whatever solution is written on it. I have wasted about 10 hours so far and none of the problems have been corrected.

Overall:
Between the problems that I am still having with this unit, and the amount of time I have had to spend with tech support. I would avoid this product.

• User: a customer from hotmail.com
• Submitted: 2/28/2006
• Style of Music: blues, folk, accoustic rock etc....
• Location: Arkansas