Hi there,
I'm looking for an affordable audio interface that has two stereo outs available in WDM regular windows audio because I'm coding an automation application and found out that the Steinberg UR44 I had to work with only has the main 1/2 outputs available to Windows audio...
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hello Folks,
Im looking for the same Audio-Interface for a longer time now. 4x TRS balanced outputs / with seperate WDM, MME, Direct Sound,... use.
What I know so far for SURE:
Im currently using an old
ESI MAYA44 PCI (Yes PCI! not PCIe) and it does support the feature you want to have. It has one Main Mix Output and seperate 1/2 and 3/4 Outputs in Windows. But it comes with several problems. First it's an EndOfLife Product and its latest drivers are from 2016... . Second i sometimes get interference/noise with the card beeing 'too close' to other cards or the PSU in the system. And for the last point, i don't know why but sometimes the sound get's really crispy, distorted and broken if i play f.e. a youtube video (several times play/pause helps to let the card find its way).
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ESI still has a refreshed version of the
MAYA44ex [
https://www.thomann.de/gb/esi_maya44_ex.htm] as a PCIe card and a USB Interface type
U86xt [
https://www.thomann.de/gb/esi_u86_xt.htm], which will support what you want to do. Downside: Just 24bit/96kHz max.
I personally don't want to have a PCI card anymore, but was looking for a more portable allrounder.
=> So i tried the
Roland Rubix 24 and got disappointed.
It has a nice look, nice metal casing, pretty neet options, BUT a miserable driver/control panel and again just one WDM multichanneling I/O under Windows.
What I know so far with some gaps:
I've seen a video on Youtube, where somebody was working with the
Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 [youtube : EEok44nti3E?t=457] (MK1 or MK2?? don't know for sure) and he had multiple WDM devices under Windows.
But again there is a HUUUGE BUT. Because Ive heard from couple of tests that the NI Komplete Audio 6 is a slick looking Audio Interface, but it doesn' have a really solid casing, some minor -not nice to listen- boost in mid frequencies (compared to similar interfaces form presonus/scarlett/...), bad support, NOT EVEN A MANUAL (srsly...).
I'm not that pretty sure if the multiple devices under Windows got removed on the MK2.
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What I've heard:
Best to go is
RME. I don't know one single musician/engineer/producer who said that RME is sh..bad.
RME delivers a good set of drivers and good support, but in the other hand is not that cheap (500€< and up for normal). And to the point i know is that they aswell support multiple WDM channels.
I was looking forward to test the
Steinberg U44C, because 4 analog outputs, USB 3.0 connectivity, 32bit/192kHz. But like you tested no multiple WDM devices under Windows so...
At the moment I am searching the internet for videos/forums for compability of the following Interfaces:
- Scarlett 4i4 3rd gen.
- Scarlett 6i6 2nd gen.
- Scarlett 8i6 3rd gen.
- Presonus Studio 26c
- Presonus Studio 86c
- MOTU M4
Cheers!