Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface

by Yamaha

Product Features

• 2 mic/Hi-Z inputs
• 2 stereo inputs
• Phantom 48V power
• USB bus powered
• Cubase AI included

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 4 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001F1WNAS
• Item model number: AUDIOGRAM6
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,133 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #71 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Audio Interfaces

Product Description

The AUDIOGRAM Series has been carefully designed to make setting up your computer-based recording environment an absolute breeze. Coming as a complete kit, the AUDIOGRAM6 and AUDIOGRAM3 each bundle together a hardware interface that adds audio inputs and outputs to your computer, software for recording and producing music, and a USB cable for connecting the audio interface. s such, either package will instantly turn your computer into a powerful yet intuitive tool for recording and editing audio from virtually any microphone or audio input device. What's more, setup is as easy as installing the bundled music-production application, CUBASE AI, on your computer and connecting the audio interface using the USB cable provided! You're then ready to connect instruments, microphones, CD players, MP3 players, and even old record or tape players for recording straight into CUBASE AI.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yamaha Audiogram 6 - USB Interface, Mixing Abilities, and 48 Phantom Volts of Power, January 5, 2012

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Chadia Mathurin - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface (Electronics)

If you're looking for a USB device with mixing abilities, 48 phantom volts of power, then the Yamaha Audiogram could possibly be what you're looking for. However,If you have no patience to figure things out, then this is NOT for you. From my experience, it is not a plug and play product. You may have to go into your control panel and play around with your sound settings until you get the right fit. I bought this product, because I had a desire to get into music production. I wanted a device that would allow me to use my keyboard and a condenser mic on my laptop, while producing good quality sound into Fruity Loops. I assume that there is some tweaking for professional producers, that I am unaware of, because I am simply unable to get my mic to produce that professional crisp recorded sound that it produces when it is in function ex-Fruity Loops.

Having said that, I was able to use this device, in conjunction with a Powered USB Hub and plug it into my iPad2 with Garageband for iPad. The result was excellent. My mic produced the crisp sounds that I expected it to, and I was even able to simultaneously use another mic and instrument. I would therefore conclude that the my initial problem has nothing to do with the product, but rather with my inexperience in using Audio Interfaces in conjunction with music production software.

I gave the product a 4-star review, simply because it wasn't plug and play and requires a little more than a basic knowledge of computers to set it up correctly. This may not be suitable for everyone. The advantages far outweigh the negative. It has a sleek, sturdy, light build, and gives one the ability to revolutionize music production with very little. I also like that its features allow it to be used as a mixer, controlling compression and gain. For me the biggest plus was the 48 Phantom volts of power. This is very important for those who own condenser mics.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only buy it, if you know how to use it!, December 25, 2010

By 

reinhard sual - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface (Electronics)

If you have experienced with DAW (digital audio workstation) before, than this little thing is very good and handy Mixer with USB connectivity to Computer.
I actually used it (most of the time) as a Mixer for 'mini home theater & mutimedia' setup. (See IMAGE).
So I can record TV program (sound only, from DirecTV).
Singing, Recording VO,Podcasting, using decent Large Capsule Condenser Mic with Phantom, with Ableton Live and facilitate lots of Plug-In (The Latency is acceptable though, and without plug-in the latency is zero). Also Sony Sound Forge or Cakewalk Sonar. But never use the Cubase!

If you know electronic and all those ground-loop things, you can avoid all noises! But if you just casual user, and dont want to bother with proper setup, do not buy this!
Read NO further!

(But if you do:)
As mentioned above, I am having fun using this Audiogram 6, for ;mini home theater & muti media' setup.
(See my setup on the IMAGE!)

This setup can rival Thousand Dollar Home Theater in Sound/Picture quality with only fraction of the cost. And it has tons of features and capability you can ever imagine.

Complete setup:
'mini home theater' which is cheaply bought but very 'HIGH' in Quality:
* TCL 32" 1080p
* M-Audio AV40
* BIC Venturi V80 subwoofer
* DirecTV HD-DVR HR24 with Network Adaptor(can play My Computer Video, Music, Photo ETC)
* Yamaha Audiogram 6 as MIXER (connected to My Computer)

My Computer:
* Decent Quad Core with 8GB dual-channel RAM, GigaByte based Mobo, Cooler Master HAF case
* 2 X 1 Tb RAID-0 SATA-2 for Workspace , 1 TB SATA for OS
* 64 Bit Windows 7 with VMware Workstation (running Mac OS X)
* Dual Head nvdia based
* Dual Display (1920X1080)

Software:
* Cakewalk Sonar 8.5
* Sony Sound Forge 10
* Ableton Live
* Adobe Premiere (part of CS 5)

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great for the most part, February 21, 2009

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D. H. Preuss II "BajaSonido" (Baja) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface (Electronics)

first, they sent me the Anagram 3, not the 6. Anyhow, check out asio4all for windows asio driver. Not sure it makes a world of diff. No probs with the Yamaha drivers, Windows vista 32bit.

Have static real bad if my laptop is plugged into 110, on battery the system is crystal clear.

Data has some skips during recording. using laptop w/ 5400 rpm sata or usb 7200 drive, both skip.

Decided to go with a Mackie 8 channel (802 VLZ3) mixer and a Tascam dp 004 recorder and bypass the computer/interface all together. The computer interface is too complicated for a two channel mix. Too much to set up and tear down for live performances.

Love the Mackie for a 1000 reasons! It's my favorite piece of equipment. Haven't got the Tascam yet, 1 more week.

Note on the Audiogram: the channel level controls are not full kill. If you have a mic plugged in and turn the level all the way down, you still get signal from the mic in your mix.

The users manual is very good.

The Cubase AI4 is rock solid, extensive activation process, updates are available.


Update on Tascam dp-004 pocket studio with which I was going to replace this yamaha recorder and my laptop, didn't like the Tascam at all, doesn't record directly to WAV (or any other usable) format and converts in real time, a two hour recording takes at least two more hours to convert. Sent it back. Looking at a Zoom H2 for the same price.