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http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/102133/fs-presonus-audiobox-usb-tc-impact-twin
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I still use a GX as a part of my portable setup with my travel guitar and a laptop for holidays. You'd need to plug headphones (or powered speakers) into the GX.
Btw there are other options. Many practice amps and multifx units also offer USB interfaces where you can use the built in sounds to avoid latency by, in effect, providing direct monitoring. Alternatively, you could take an audio (head phone) out from your computer and plug it into a 'Line/Aux-in' in a practice amp or multifx unit if it has one.
I've never managed to get low enough latency with USB 2.0 for monitoring using ampsims hosted on computer. USB 3.0 is OK if your audio interface supports it, but I suspect you won't have USB 3.0 on an older Vista computer.
I used to use an old M-audio 2496 PCI card on my Vista 32 bit computer which gave just about low enough latency for computer hosted ampsims.
I've been reading a few threads & S Gear are selling there software for $99,does the Presonus interface with that?
Then the L6 GX,looks like a ready to go package for about £80,inc.interface & software & a recording software,which i'm not really bothered about.
I'll have a little think,before asking more daft questions,just realised i've used a Presonus digital desk in the past,very good quality,but a bit glitchy,i think.
Thanks for the help.
Personally, I've never had any glitches of any sort with the Presonus stuff, but I had a cheap Line 6 interface for a bit and found the latency quite high - bringing the latency down just resulted in dropouts all over the place.
There's one possible pitfall with an audio interface/DAW approach. Sometimes audio glitches can be caused by things on your computer such as wireless, which might need to be disabled. And if you're using wireless for your internet connection to watch Youtube that's going to be a problem. Having said that, I've only had that type of issue on an old XP laptop. My old Vista computer was fine. You could download the dpc latency checker to identify potential issues in advance.
The Line 6 GX has been fine for me, provided I used the built in sounds and ToneDirect monitoring. But the sounds are at best only passable by modern standards and not in the same league as S-Gear. The inherent latency of the GX is too high to be useable for through DAW/computer monitoring using something like S Gear.
I look forward to a Helix version of the Line 6 GX.
Btw. If you're thinking about using S Gear check the system requirements. I think it might now need Windows 7 and above. That might be the case for other recent versions of software you're thinking of using with Vista.
I'm sorry if these questions are dim,but is Vista ok with this?