with win 8 i cant play instrumental beats and sing in same times live in skype, do you think with this card i can do it?
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Using Windows 7, with or without the sound card, you could play the instrumental beats loud enough and sing and pick up both through the microphones for live Skype. If you can choose your microphone and headset devices with Skype, then you could set a different default device for play of your beats, and the sound card can help by adding more play devices and improving quality. It would be difficult to internally mix the beats with the singing live for Skype, other than letting the beats play and picking up the audio for the beats through the microphone. In theory, it is possible to mix the two internally without mistiming, but you would need to write complicated software to achieve that objective and use an inconvenient combination of recording devices.
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Hi every one!! I have to clear a doubt before I buy this item, I love to use midi and playback instruments especially with Reason (obviously I take advantage on recording at the same time), my doubt is if I will have playback latency with this unit as it does not use an internal PCI card? Thanks in advance
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I don't see why not. I run one on a dual core 4GB with windows 8. You might need to tweak your drivers to stop audio drop outs if you get any. Also don't run too many other apps alongside Traktor.
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I'm not having much luck with mine. Not Win7 friendly. I had it working with SoundForge and AcidPro, a bit. But nothing from Adobe CS6 production premium seems to work with it. The two Sont applications also stopped seeing it after a bit. Kind of a waste of money in my book. :-(
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I would believe so, I use it on my Mac for Garageband and Ableton. I would think it would work, but I don't have a computer with windows 8 to be 100% sure. Sorry I couldn't more concrete.
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once you have it set up on your computer and it's a recognized device.. the answer is yes. no problem. You will need an application that will be able to record what you say. for example recorder on windows can do this just fine. Just remember to speak clearly into the microphone. or you will get lots of errors. good luck and have fun. it's a nice microphone. I got it for my Mom so we can use skype to talk on for free.
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I can verify that the audio out does work with Win 8. However I have not tried the microphone in function.
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My friend's works fine under Windows 8. As far as I'm aware, there have been no driver changes from Window Vista through to 8. However, the mic/inputs on this unit are very sensitive. I blew mine out. Great sounding unit though I've switched to Focusrite's Scarlett and Personus's Firestudio.
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I would think so, because when I originally bought it, I had it on my other laptop that has 8.0. Moved it to another comp with Windows 7 later, but it was because all my other music-related software was on the 7.0, not because it didn't work on Windows 8. I don't think 8.1 would be all that different, but you might want to check the forums on Avid, to see if anyone's done that yet.
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Yes and no, can record in Win8, but nothing while playing World of Warcraft. The quality of the recording in Win8 is good, the sound in WoW will blow you away!!! Hopes that helps.
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I'm currently using it on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit. I had a weird issue after upgrading from 7 to 8 which made the audio not work, but uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the problem.
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I don't use Win 8.1, as Win 7 still works fine for me, but I see no reason why you could not use this as a stereo audio source via USB. Alesis recommends that you use ASIO4All as the interface, and there is a link on alesis.com/multimix4usb to this plug-in. You'll need software for the recording process. I use SoundForge, but something like Audacity should work as well.
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depends? what are you going for? what OS do you have? if you just listen to music then that's some serious drop in cash for a minor upgrade (and even then prolly only the trained ear can hear a difference *or think they do* ) so it really comes down to what you do with the card and driver support.
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Yes. I have used it on a Windows 8 machine last week. I downloaded the latest version of Audacity from SourceForge.net and plugged in the device.
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This microphone works perfectly with Win. 8.1. That is what I run on my gaming rig, and this mic gives perfect voice quality to my YouTube videos. I don't think this mic really cares about your OS, since it has no drivers to install. It's just plug and play!
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yes, I have windows 8 and use it and you can use your own music it's different from the older version and took me time to figure it out, glad I did It makes nice movies.
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Yep! I have it on my win 7 desktop, and it works really great. The only issue was making it (2i2) the default audio out or in when I have some other audio programs like acid studio and Sibelius they are midi based so that can be an issue to manually switch, in windows 8 the trade is automatic between the midi programs and asio drivers. The upside is that becuase of less backround apps, like in win 8, you can have the buffer higher, so you lose latency sooner. On win 8 I have the asio driver bottomed-out, I can hvae it at like 7ms. Hope that helps.