Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsEasy to use, no latency issues
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2012
I'm using this to record and mix guitar tracks. I'm only laying down a track one at a time and only see possibly doing 2 at a time in the future, so this was perfect. My main concern was latency, which I've read from other product reviews can be a significant issue. I installed the Yamaha ASIO driver and left it set to the default setting of "medium". Even though it's not technically 0 latency, it virtually is since I can't detect it.
A great feature is that you can adjust the volume of the what you are recording over right on the Audiogram. This can be adjusted independantly from the overall monitoring volume! It's great that you don't have to muck about with the Windows audio mixer to adjust the levels of playback through the Audiogram.
I am using this with Adobe Audition because I had a copy and it is what I'm familiar with. The Audiogram works perfectly with it. I did install Cubase and managed to work through all of the licensing stuff. The UI and usage paradigm is completely different from Audition and I found it to be far from intuitive to figure out how to use. I won't bother with Cubase again until I find myself in a situation where Audition won't do something I want. If I had to rely on using Cubase, I would not rate this product 5 stars.
I had no issues with noise. I have it connected to my Dell Studio 15 laptop.
In short, if you have multi-track audio software that you are familiar with and want to add on a low latency audio interface, the Audiogram will work well for. That also holds true if you have used Cubase before. If you are new to multi-track recording on a PC, you may want to include the purchase of usable multi-track audio software in your budget. I have no personal experience with it, but I've read that a product called Reaper is user friendly, powerful, and relatively inexpensive.
