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I've got one of these: Now, I'm not going to lie I mainly bought it because it has VU metres on it that light up but so far so good, it seems to do the job well.
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After The War posted:How have you been liking that over the time since you posted? I've been eyeballing it for a while - would like something with four inputs to pull stuff off the rackmount Yamaha four-track cassette I got because insanity. I really like it, however I am not an *#expert#* on these things so keep that in mind  Sound quality and latency are both spot on, build quality rocks (it's all metal) and all the dials and switches feel solid. It needed a firmware update, but this seems pretty well known about them, that all went smoothly as well to be fair to Akai, just a download and install. I personally like it and I could see it being amazing for recording bands live because of the 4 inputs. Plus it looks cool!
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Flipperwaldt posted:It used to suck latency-wise on initial drivers/firmware, so I guess they addressed that then, if it's okay with guitar. I have a I've found it fine, I am certain there will be people who say I am wrong, but that's just audio equipment chat for you. So far I have recorded various guitar parts in to Cubase with it and not a whole lot more, it's done that well so I can't complain, however I would for sure hunt down recent reviews of it as other people will have better in depth takes on it than I will. I'll be putting midi keyboards through it soon, so time will tell I guess! It looks good in the flesh, I dunno, photos of it make it look a bit cheaper than it does, having said that it does go for a specific aesthetic that you'll either love or hate, I am a retro baboon so I love it 
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After The War posted:How have you been liking that over the time since you posted? I've been eyeballing it for a while - would like something with four inputs to pull stuff off the rackmount Yamaha four-track cassette I got because insanity. Trip report update: DO NOT BUY AN AKAI EIE PRO The thing is great but randomly I get this thing where all audio coming out of it sounds 'bitcrushed' You can here it from about 35 seconds into this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rs37g-ajU Akai are basically all 'welp sucks to be you' about this, and it's a common issue: http://community.akaipro.com/akai_p...on-from-outputs So sadly I have to advise against getting one, it is great until it does this and then it just, well, it's poo poo.
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May 26, 2015 23:08
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Radiapathy posted:The biggest liability with Akai (and their sister brands, Alesis and M-Audio) right now is support. They do not fix bugs and they do not solve problems. It's infuriating because apart from this issue it's everything I could ever want, and in all honesty I personally will put up with it, but it does absolutely stop me recommending them to anyone else and will stop me buying from them in future for sure.
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May 27, 2015 12:11
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After The War posted:Well, poo poo. And here I was just getting ready to order one as a "congratulations, you survived running a convention!" present to myself. Windows 8 64bit I can try it on win 7 64bit if you want me to to test it, no probs. For me until it freaks out and gets all distorted for no reason it is brilliant, I can put up with it, but obviously it does stop me outright recommending it to people. Turning it off and back on fixes it, but again, I can;t recommend it with a clear conscience.
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May 29, 2015 03:38
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TBH, I still may end up doing it and taking the risk - I'm willing to put up with a lot to get those four inputs. More research first, then.
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After The War posted:Sorry to abandon the thread for a while, but yeah - everything I saw was people having trouble with Macs and Windows 8, so I'd be curious how it does with Win7 for you. So far so good but I haven't used it for extended periods, I'd still be cautious
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Verizian posted:Akai EIE pro I've got one, it's great until out of the blue and at random your whole sound turns into harsh deafening white noise forcing you to switch the unit on and off until it fixes itself. There's nothing you can do about it and it's pot luck whether it affects you or not, I absolutely 100% would never recommend buying one because of this.
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Sup Manchester goon Have you been to PMT? They are pretty good over there for advice and gear.
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