


- #PRO AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC LOW LATENCY 2017 FULL#
- #PRO AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC LOW LATENCY 2017 PORTABLE#
#PRO AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC LOW LATENCY 2017 FULL#
Pro studios tend to favour multiple-input devices capable of accommodating enough microphones for a full band to record simultaneously, including drum kit, bass amp, guitar amps and vocals, along with line inputs for keyboards and suchlike. The number of physical inputs your interface has will determine how many instruments you’ll be able to record at once. First and foremost will most likely be how many inputs and outputs you’re likely to need. If you’re in the market for an interface, there are several key considerations to take into account, depending on your recording requirements.
#PRO AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC LOW LATENCY 2017 PORTABLE#
Your audio interface acts as the heart of your studio, connecting your controllers and input devices to the computer and back out to the speakers.Īs computers got more powerful, with faster processors more capable of handling the demands of the task at hand, the need for expensive extra hardware diminished and affordable, portable USB-based interfaces began to appear, allowing a quick and easy solution for project studios and home recordists to hook up microphones and instruments such as guitars, basses and hardware synths to their computers.Īt the same time, at the other end of the spectrum, the advances in technology that have brought quality audio recording into the hands of bedroom producers worldwide have allowed pro studios to access ever more powerful and sophisticated recording solutions. When they first began to appear on the scene in tandem with the earliest hard disk-based audio recorders, audio interfaces used to be really big, expensive things, only accessible to pro studios, costing about the same as your average family car and often requiring extra hardware cards slotted into your computer to run – the reason why they’re still known in some circles today as ‘soundcards’. Put simply, if you want to record any kind of high-quality audio into your computer, a good audio interface will be top of your shopping list (after the computer of course!).

Audio interfaces are the middlemen of the computer recording world, designed to sit between your instruments and your computer, taking the sounds made by your microphones, guitars and other instruments and converting them into digital information your computer can understand and store on its hard drive.Īnd when playing back your audio, it’s the interface’s job to reconvert the digital audio files back into analogue signals that can be relayed to your studio monitor speakers or headphones.
