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Ostinato Rubato wrote:Did you know that you can use your tablet to control Studio One? It’s like the ONLY daw that does that, according to boomers.

Ostinato Rubato wrote:That’s awesome man.

On a humorous note: Did you know that you can use your tablet to control Studio One? It’s like the ONLY daw that does that, according to boomers.

Marc G wrote:The UA interfaces are great man.... my friend uses the Apollo as his main desktop interface at his studio, the DI in it is awesome..

I'm in the same position right now, slowly by surely updating my home set up, got a new Mac Mini, probably gonna order the interface on Monday, hoping to get a Cyber Monday deal, I'm likely gonna go with the Audient EVO 8. My KRK monitors need to get upgraded/replaced as well, likely going with the Kali 6.5" in a month or two. The final upgrade will a new screen, the 21" one I have now is cool, but I plan doing more video editing next year so I want to bump up to a 32". Once that's done Flabby Roads Studios will be done for some time.... at most I might get some sort of DAW controller, nothing fancy, likely a single fader deal so i can have the transport buttons at my fingertips and be able to write automations.

Ostinato Rubato wrote:Did you know that you can use your tablet to control Studio One? It’s like the ONLY daw that does that, according to boomers.

Ostinato Rubato wrote:That’s awesome man.

On a humorous note: Did you know that you can use your tablet to control Studio One? It’s like the ONLY daw that does that, according to boomers.

G-SPACE wrote:

Ostinato Rubato wrote:That’s awesome man.

On a humorous note: Did you know that you can use your tablet to control Studio One? It’s like the ONLY daw that does that, according to boomers.

GuitarBilly wrote:That's cool. I've heard great things about the SSL2. The price is great too. SSL knows a thing or 2 about recording so I'm sure they did this right. I was looking for an USB C/3.0 interface or I'd have considered this one.

Marc G wrote:

GuitarBilly wrote:That's cool. I've heard great things about the SSL2. The price is great too. SSL knows a thing or 2 about recording so I'm sure they did this right. I was looking for an USB C/3.0 interface or I'd have considered this one.

it is a USB C connection but still is USB 2.0.... other than SUUUUPER low latency I'm not seeing the massive advantage to go to 3.0 for a 2 channel interface really... and I think the latency being reported from independent testing is around 5ms which is more than good enough for me as well. Plus to you can mix in the direct sound from the inputs with the output from your DAW so for live amps etc it really shouldn't be a problem, at least I don't think....

what really sold me on the unit besides the goodwill in the SLL name and the free plugins that cost more than the interface itself was what my engineer buddy said when he tested it. What he liked was that in the normal use the mic preamps were nice and clean and didn't realllly colour your inputs so as an interface that's great but then when you kick on the 4K mode it's like getting a really good mic preamp in your signal chain adding some nice tone to your signal, so I mean that's kinda win/win IMO

GuitarBilly wrote:

Marc G wrote:

GuitarBilly wrote:That's cool. I've heard great things about the SSL2. The price is great too. SSL knows a thing or 2 about recording so I'm sure they did this right. I was looking for an USB C/3.0 interface or I'd have considered this one.

it is a USB C connection but still is USB 2.0.... other than SUUUUPER low latency I'm not seeing the massive advantage to go to 3.0 for a 2 channel interface really... and I think the latency being reported from independent testing is around 5ms which is more than good enough for me as well. Plus to you can mix in the direct sound from the inputs with the output from your DAW so for live amps etc it really shouldn't be a problem, at least I don't think....

what really sold me on the unit besides the goodwill in the SLL name and the free plugins that cost more than the interface itself was what my engineer buddy said when he tested it. What he liked was that in the normal use the mic preamps were nice and clean and didn't realllly colour your inputs so as an interface that's great but then when you kick on the 4K mode it's like getting a really good mic preamp in your signal chain adding some nice tone to your signal, so I mean that's kinda win/win IMO

yeah the latency is important to me. Not so much for the number of inputs, but I use a lot of VST instruments that I play through my FA-06 as a controller. Moving to USB 3.0 improved the response and feel of the VSTs quite a bit.

Marc G wrote:well...... just pulled the trigger on the SSL2 interface...... I'm a sucker for free stuff and they have a special with their X-Comp and Reverb plugins on top of the usual channel and drum strip plugins it normally comes with.... when I saw some A/B comparisons to the EVO 8 it was a no brainer for me.... I might lose some features but the sound is king here IMO

GuitarBilly wrote:

Marc G wrote:well...... just pulled the trigger on the SSL2 interface...... I'm a sucker for free stuff and they have a special with their X-Comp and Reverb plugins on top of the usual channel and drum strip plugins it normally comes with.... when I saw some A/B comparisons to the EVO 8 it was a no brainer for me.... I might lose some features but the sound is king here IMO

did you get the SSL? How do you like it? I 'm considering buying one for my laptop rig so I don't have to keep moving my interface back and forth from the desktop to the laptop

GuitarBilly wrote:

Marc G wrote:well...... just pulled the trigger on the SSL2 interface...... I'm a sucker for free stuff and they have a special with their X-Comp and Reverb plugins on top of the usual channel and drum strip plugins it normally comes with.... when I saw some A/B comparisons to the EVO 8 it was a no brainer for me.... I might lose some features but the sound is king here IMO

did you get the SSL? How do you like it? I 'm considering buying one for my laptop rig so I don't have to keep moving my interface back and forth from the desktop to the laptop

Marc G wrote:

GuitarBilly wrote:

Marc G wrote:well...... just pulled the trigger on the SSL2 interface...... I'm a sucker for free stuff and they have a special with their X-Comp and Reverb plugins on top of the usual channel and drum strip plugins it normally comes with.... when I saw some A/B comparisons to the EVO 8 it was a no brainer for me.... I might lose some features but the sound is king here IMO

did you get the SSL? How do you like it? I 'm considering buying one for my laptop rig so I don't have to keep moving my interface back and forth from the desktop to the laptop

don't know how I missed this... and I'm sure we've discussed this since BUT.... YES... I got the SSL and I love it... easy to use and sounds great, the 4K mode really adds that special sauce deal to your sound, stuff that I'm sure you can do via plugins but pushing one button is way easier than messing with compression, saturation and eqs after the fact....

The ONE thing I found out about the hard way was, even though the inputs are combo jacks and there are switches to go from Mic, Line and Instrument inputs, you need to use the right cable or else it doesn't work... i.e. you can't have an XLR plugged in and press the line level button and have the signal be padded down to line level, you'll end up muting the input, if you want to use a line level input you have to use a TRS cable....

other that that one quirk it's great, the metering on the inputs is solid, the output is strong, I have my JBLs set to -10db on the inputs and it's still loud AF and it feels great, it doesn't feel cheap at all.

ibenhad wrote:Big Antelope fan here and also really like the audient offerings. Sorry you switched to Studio 1, when Reaper is so amazing. For what you and the wife do I would think Ableton would be your bag.