M-Audio Fast Track USB worth the buy ?

[Valentin0]

Hi guys,

Iszit worth the buy ? Heard mediocre reviews on the products. Great if some Fast Track owners could give me your comments/reviews ? Thanks !

My main aim actually to record guitar and demo vocals only.

 

[kongwee]

If you wanna use Protools, then M-Audio or Digidesign. Also you are mainly do live recording, Protools is a better choice. Not to say in future you wanna do more than just demo.

 

[Valentin0]

Bro kongwee, iszit worth the buy ? I'm afraid it is not a good choice.

 

[blueprintstudios]

i'm not sure if m-audio fasttrack usb can support which version of protools m powered or whether it comes together with.

if you can get it cheap.. the band's project (www.myspace.com/ingride except fireflies song ) i'm working on the mixing/mastering side so far used that together with Audio Technica AT2020 for vocals. it'll be ok i guess.2nd hand will come with risks.

 

[kongwee]

M-audio is ok product. I start with M-audio then change a few audio interface, than back to M-Audio. I never use Protools,thou. Protools M is for all M-audio product. Protools LE for all Digidesign Mbox and 003. Protoosl HD is for all Digidesign product higher than Mbox/003. My advice buy those interface with power supply adaptor optional. All the bus powered only interface have switching noise during start up and shutdown(as I encounter). This is harmful for your monitor. It also draw additional power form motherboard. It can cause stability issue when you have too much device on the same bus.

There are other product to compete M-audio, but the quality is not far ahead or behind M-audio. But thinking ahead, Protools is still the de facto standard. I see many oversea band,artist only carry Protools project when they travel all over the world. This group of people normally are sessionist. They don't need extensive midi sequence like cubase or sonar. But there are track limit in Protools M and LE. I think they extend it to 48 stereo/mono track. Meaning you cannot have the luxury of having 3 takes for a full band recording.

 

[teleholic]

set to grid, move further down the timeline can have as many takes as you want bro kongwee haha no choice about pt track limit..