Getting into the world of PT

[Uros]

Till now I was working with an Emu0404 pci card, and it's ok. But now I have a laptop too, and plus my school started to use PT instead of Nuendo/Cubase, so I need me some interface to use it in PT.

Seeing that PT is like some sort of standard nowadays, I want to enter that world. In the studio that I use to record bands I use their Project Mix plus some external preamps via spdif for tracking drums/gtrs/bass/..., so number of inputs is not the issue. I just want to have an interface with Midi input/output, 1 or 2 pre's for DI tracking, and that it's reliable.

After some research I've found that mbox2 is one of the possibilities. Oh, and I would use it in win7, but XP sp2 is also ok, if I must. Just want ok drivers.

Yeah, and I would like to use in in Cubendo also, because many people around here still use that as their primary sofware.

Thoughts?

We are talking ~300e budget here.

 

[Uros]

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[Josh M.]

Not sure about using an Mbox 2 in Cubendo as it is Digidesign hardware - I don't know that it would work but maybe you can get it to. I don't have any experience with Digidesign harware as I use Pro Tools M-Powered.

If you just wanted something simple, M-Audio have the new Fast Track. It comes with Pro Tools Essential which I imagine would be compatible with the other versions (filetypes), and has a DI plus one mic input.

 

[Uros]

Thanks duder

Any other suggestions?

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Not sure about using an Mbox 2 in Cubendo as it is Digidesign hardware - I don't know that it would work but maybe you can get it to.

I can on OSX, I think ASIO driver exsist for PC, so 90% sure you can.

 

[Zack Uidl]

I use my Digidesign 003R with Cubase 5 every day. I totally love it. I have done this with Leopard (OSX), Snow Leopard (OSX), and XP/Vista. No problems with anything. I have used it like this with Cubase 4 and Cubase SX3 too

 

[ahjteam]

It comes with Pro Tools Essential which I imagine would be compatible with the other versions (filetypes), and has a DI plus one mic input.

Except it is even more crippleware than Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered:

16 audio, 8 instrument, 8 MIDI, 3 insert slots per track, 2 audio inputs, and 2 outputs

 

[Uros]

I don't want that FastTrack.

At this point mbox2 is pretty much the only solution that suits my needs, it appears. But I am concerned with that driver problem with it, when running in Cubendo. I think that ahjteam was talking about it in some threads, so I'm interested did you find some sort of solution?