pauljoecoe
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Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
#613979 - 10/05/08 08:14 AM
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Has anyone any experience of this. I am after a internally mounted sound card
for use with school PC's runing Cubase SE and in somecases Cubase 4. I was
wanting something like a small USB interface (e.g. Tascam) but from a security viewpoint
something internally mounted would be better. Has anyone any other
suggestions. Requirements.: 1/4 jack ins and outs, midi interface,
good latency for audio recording. Headphone socket. Sturdy, reliable and possibly front
case mounted or breakout box lead. ohh and cheap ish (£70 -100) http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/PCI/MiaMIDI/index.php
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mhaigh
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: pauljoecoe]
#613999 - 10/05/08 10:04 AM
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the obvious alternatives in that price range are the emu 0404 pci and the m-audio 2496 or
192. none of these come with a breakout box though. the delta 44/66 series does but they
have no midi I/O. the cheapest i can see is the delta 1010lt but thats about £120...
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Getafix
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: pauljoecoe]
#614227 - 11/05/08 10:15 AM
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Echo supposedly have better drivers than EMU & M-Audio so i'm actually considering buying
the Mia midi myself along with a Benchmark DAC1.
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pauljoecoe
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: mhaigh]
#614412 - 11/05/08 08:20 PM
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Quote mhaigh:
the obvious
alternatives in that price range are the emu 0404 pci and the m-audio 2496 or 192. none of
these come with a breakout box though. the delta 44/66 series does but they have no midi
I/O. the cheapest i can see is the delta 1010lt but thats about £120...
that Delta 1010Lt is very messy with all
those leads!
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Martin Walker
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: pauljoecoe]
#614638 - 12/05/08 01:38 PM
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I'm very happy with my Echo Mia (now feeding a Lavry DA10 via its S/PDIF output). You
won't find headphone sockets on PCI soundcards though, since it's such a fiddle to plug
them in round the back of your computer  USB audio interfaces are far more likely to feature them. Martin
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pauljoecoe
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: Martin Walker]
#614716 - 12/05/08 04:57 PM
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Quote Martin Walker:
I'm very
happy with my Echo Mia (now feeding a Lavry DA10 via its S/PDIF output). You won't find
headphone sockets on PCI soundcards though, since it's such a fiddle to plug them in round
the back of your computer
USB audio interfaces are far more likely to feature them.
Martin
So the 1/4 balanced jack outputs
on the echo mia are line level? no use for headphones. Hadn'nt thought of that. Thats no
use then as it would need a headphone amp. Which is getting away from my aim of simplicity
and minimal leads.
Arrgh!! just when I thought I'd got a solution.
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mhaigh
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: pauljoecoe]
#614742 - 12/05/08 06:26 PM
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you can get cheap monitors with heaphone sockets or use something like a cheap behringer
mixer...
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Martin Walker
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Re: Echo Mia midi D/A interface (or alternatives)
[Re: pauljoecoe]
#614785 - 12/05/08 08:59 PM
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Quote pauljoecoe:
So the 1/4
balanced jack outputs on the echo mia are line level? no use for headphones. Hadn'nt
thought of that. Thats no use then as it would need a headphone amp. Which is getting away
from my aim of simplicity and minimal leads.
Arrgh!! just when I thought I'd
got a solution.
You'll get
some level on headphones, but it's not an optimal setup since most line level outputs like
to see an impedance of 10Kohm or greater, whereas many phones are only a few hundred ohms
or even less.
Remember also that balanced line-level outputs are on
individual quarter-inch jacks, so even if you got sufficient level without audible
distortion you'd have to make up a special adaptor to connect two balanced but mono stereo
outputs to a single stereo unbalanced headphone output.
Martin
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