While I don't doubt that an external USB interface is in my future, as long as I have motherboard with a couple of PCI slots I'm sticking with the old Delta Audiophile 2496 I've been using for years and years now. It works great at low latency even in Windows 10 and it does everything I need it to do. It only offers two ins and outs though, which is a bummer. Solution? I picked up a second Delta card for cheap on FB Marketplace. These cards can be used up to four in tandem as long as you sync 'em up over S/PDIF. So now that I have an extra set of stereo ins and outs, I've been experimenting with something I've been wanting to try for a long time, namely hooking up my Lexicon Alex to my DAW.
Here's a sketchy thing (that sounds similar to half a dozen other things I've composed) just for trying it out.
While this is obviously not something that's going to replace my various software reverbs, I love the sound of this old unit. Here I'm using the Recital Hall algo with a slightly longer reverb time than the default. Despite (or thanks to?) being 16 bit and 31.25kHz it has a warmth and spaciousness to it that I find very appealing.
Whaddaya think?
Here's a sketchy thing (that sounds similar to half a dozen other things I've composed) just for trying it out.
While this is obviously not something that's going to replace my various software reverbs, I love the sound of this old unit. Here I'm using the Recital Hall algo with a slightly longer reverb time than the default. Despite (or thanks to?) being 16 bit and 31.25kHz it has a warmth and spaciousness to it that I find very appealing.
Whaddaya think?
