Edirol Da 2496 Win7 Driver
Roland subsidiary Edirol’s products are targeted both audio and video enthusiasts. But for a PC DAW, the DA-2496 is just about a perfect fit. It’s an 8×8 audio interface with two XLR/quarter-inch combo jacks, phantom power, and very solid performance. We like this interface so much we named it our recommended component in our high-end DAW in our first installment of our DAW article. That recommendation hasn’t changed.
The DA-2496 is powered by IC Ensemble’s/Via’s Envy24 audio processor, as evidenced by the nearly identical mixer panels seen between this product and the one found on M-Audio’s Delta 410. This mixer, while competent, could use some work in the UI department to help make signal routing settings more readily apparent.
Edirol Da-2496 Windows 7 Drivers
What we really like about the DA-2496 is the balance between the front-panel connectors, which makes switching around input devices a lot easier, and the plentiful connectors found on the back panel for more permanent connections. Both XLR connectors can make phantom power available if a microphone needs it.
In hard-disk recording tests, the DA-2496 was very solid, and gave us no trouble during the course of testing. The time alignment between recorded tracks exhibited no latency, and playback in listening tests sounded very clean.
I've just impulse-bought an EDIROL DA-2496 interface, with the intention of attaching it to the VS-2480's second RBUS connector to get more Ins/Outs. The main idea is to use it to interface with all of my external FX (4-channel Ensoniq DP4 at the moment, more later). But, I'm now unsure if the DA-2496 can work 'standalone' with the VS-2480 like. Edirol Intros 64-bit Drivers for Audio and MIDI Interfaces EDIROL Corporation has announced the release of Version 1.0 drivers for Windows x64. Idm keygen download. EDIROL had previously released beta versions of 64-bit drivers and is now offering fully-supported Version 1.0 drivers to meet EDIROL’s demanding standard for driver implementation.
The DA-2496’s wave driver didn’t really give us trouble per se, although the hard-wired gain structure of the hardware is such that we were unable to get the 0dBFS/-6dBFS gain levels that RightMark needs to be able to make its measurements. In our listening tests, recorded audio was very clean and neither the monitor output or the headphone output exhibited any audible hash when sitting idle. Running at what the DA-2496’s mixer deemed be to be near clipping we saw gain levels of -6dBFS where we were hoping for closer to 0dBFS. So although this would seem be a mark against the DA-2496, we’re not going to weight it that heavily.
Overall, we really like the DA-2496’s breakout box. To us it feels like just the right combination of easily changeable and more permanent I/O connections. This configuration all but eliminates the need for having an analog mixer as well. Its peformance as a hard-disk recording device was very solid, and aside from the issue relating to gain structure, the wave driver also gave us no headaches.
The DA-2496, like the Layla 24/96 or the Digi001, will make fine additions to a PC DAW, and will let you focus on the business at hand – making music – rather than having to futz with hardware. The DA-2496 has the Digi001’s I/O versatility along with the Layla 24/96’s versatility to work with any number of audio production apps, making it the interface of choice for our PC DAW.
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