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Audio out is more important than audio in, so nothin fancy just rock solid drivers and at least 16 or 24/48khz on the output side. Saw a lexicon alpha for 60 bux. Anyone using it?
Ron
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I set up a friend with a Edirol 4fx and he hasn't had any problems.
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Audio out is more important than audio in, so nothin fancy just rock solid drivers and at least 16 or 24/48khz on the output side. Saw a lexicon alpha for 60 bux. Anyone using it?
Ron
Band in a Box only runs at 16/44.1 - just FYI.
As for the specific Make or Model sound device, some people seem to have no troubles with a specified one, others do. For example, I have a friend who uses the M-Audio Fastrack Pro with BiaB, had a bit of trouble getting started out with it, but for over a year now, little Toshiba laptop and he have been making music. Others report problems, though. Seems that different machines and also possibly different Operating Systems may come into play here, so whatever device you are looking at, be sure to do as much rewsearch as you can on the web, lurking forums and looking for whether or not a whole lot of people, not just one or two, are reporting unsolvable problems, with an eye towards the OS and machine you have, of course.
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They don't make them anymore, but you can get a Creative mp3+ still.
It's a very small box the size of a deck of cards, a wheel volume control, 2 RCA jacks in and 2 out and digital audio.
It worked on everything I threw at it without drivers, class compliant Mac told me.
I gave it to a friend who's running an Elvis tribute show with backing tracks and his laptop jack was wonky.
Plug and play. No software, no drivers, just rock solid.
Now my Bose does that but it just sits in my basement. I got it for the singing and now I sing no more. I can sort of croak. I guess I figure out which kid needs it most.
John Conley
Musica est vita
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I use a Yamaha Audiogram 6 USB Soundcard with my PG Software. It has a nice little mixer for connecting up with. It also has onboard phantom power as well. They also have ASIO drivers on the Yamaha site. Check to see which OS they have updated. I have Vista here and they had the 32 bit ASIO driver for my set up.
Connects via USB cable. Works very well with my keyboard and Biab at the same time, no latency problems etc . . .
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Dave,Mac,John,,Trax, thank you all for the help. I settled on a tascam 122mkII. It has the correct drivers for my setup and TS says it's solid with biab in a wide variety of systems.
Ron
`15 Audiophile, Toshiba17", 3Mhz, 4gig ram, 500gig HD, Win7, Tascam 122mkII interface, Tascam 16 track 8 buss recording mixer, 2 Avalon747sps,CAD VX2 mic, AKG C1000s, mac and Digital Performer.
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I think you'll be happy with your choice. That would have been my vote. I have been using a TASCAM US-224 for years. It has been succeeded by the 122. I have no idea why they discontinued the 244; it is a control surface as well as an audio/MIDI I/O.
Richard
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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That's good to hear Ryszard, my mixer is an old tascam from the 80s. It has never given me a problem. But it's much too big to take to gigs so what you are describing sounds like the cats meow.
Ron
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I have a TASCAM M-106 6 x 4 x 2 analog mixer that I used for many years as the 'brain' of my four-track studio. It appears to have been designed for just that purpose. However, although small, due to patch programmability it is so flexible that I have to keep its flowchart handy.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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I use a Yamaha Audiogram 6 USB
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I have a TASCAM M-106 6 x 4 x 2 analog mixer that I used for many years as the 'brain' of my four-track studio. It appears to have been designed for just that purpose. However, although small, due to patch programmability it is so flexible that I have to keep its flowchart handy.
This one is the same way, the more they do the bigger the learning curve. I'd have do gig the manual out to do a whole session just with it. I mostly use it for routing signals and monitoring. The mixer in digital performer does what today's pro mixers do and more with full automation and endless mix memories of everything you did on the session. Including effects. Those mostly come from a universal audio UAD 1 card in a pci slot on the mac. I couldn't afford the hardware version of one of these effects. Most are modeled on 50 and 60s recording gear made by the father of the guy who does the software modeling of the boxes that live on the pci card.
Ron
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I've got a few different Edirol models, and they all work well.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
Cari amici
È stata aggerate la versione in Italiano del programma più amato dagli appassionati di musica, il nostro Band-in-a-Box.
Questo è il link alla nuova versione 2025.
Di seguito i link per scaricare il pacchetti di lingua italiana aggiornati per Band-in-a-Box e RealBand, anche per chi avesse già comprato la nuova versione in inglese.
Band-in-a-Box 2025 - Italiano
RealBand 2025 - Italiano
Band-in-a-Box 2025 French Version is Here!
Bonjour à tous,
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 pour Windows est disponible en Français.
Le téléchargement se fait à partir du site PG Music
Pour ceux qui auraient déjà acheté la version 2025 de Band-in-a-Box (et qui donc ont une version anglaise), il est possible de "franciser" cette version avec les patchs suivants:
BIAB 2025 - francisation
RealBand 2025 - francisation
Voilà, enjoy!
Band-in-a-Box 2025 German Version is Here!
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Video: Summary of the New Band-in-a-Box® App for iOS®
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