I wanted to ask a short question. I make music mostly for my pleasure, sometimes I record something for friends and recently after I bought Digitakt I found out my sound card is absolutely not picking up the whole spectrum of sounds coming from Digitakt. I am talking low frequencies sounding like buzzing and stuff. Running through mixer to headphones / directly plugged headphones to Digitakt sounds a OK. So I figured it´s time to upgrade my soundcard…
To my question: what sound card would you recommend for a small time bedroom producer for recording my jams?
I also have other gear but only with Digitakt I found this “buzzing” so I figured the Digitakt is of much better quality than my other gear
I am little on the budget, but I am willing to save up some money and buy something slightly more expensive if it solves my problem.
I don´t really have huge aspirations but it pisses me off when I can´t record the sound in a good quality…
Thanks for all recommendations!
EDIT:
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction, now I know I can actually use the Digitakt as a souncard itself with Overbridge!
EDIT2:
So I connected the Digitakt to my Ableton via Overbridge (huge pain setting it up, had to restart my computer several times, delete some stuff via recovery terminal etc.) and the sound is F L A W L E S S :))))) thanks a lot! :))
Which other gear you dont have this buzzing with? To me it sounds like you created a ground loop with digitakt or used a bad cable if your other gear doesnt have this buzzing.
If you really need a nice cheap soundcard, focusrite has some offerings that are great for the price.
Digitakt is now class compliant. So to take the stereo out, like you do with you soundcard, you just have to plug it usb in your computer, and Select it in the audio interface menu of your software. Just checked in your digitakt system parameter the usb choixe you made…
Digitakt works really well as a soundcard for line inputs (you can use the inputs on the back for synth / DI guitar etc). Just select it as the soundcard in your DAW settings. I’m using the Digitakt as my soundcard atm; it works very well for my synth (Minilogue).
If you decide at some point that you want to record mics, it doesn’t have mic preamps. If you don’t need loads of inputs for a new interface, Audient’s soundcards are great (iD14 for example). They aren’t budget, but high quality. Or as Geologist has said check out Focusrite.
Even though your soundcard was very cheap it should perfectly be able to record a good clean signal. Especially if your other gear records fine. Are you sure its not something simple like recording too hot for example, or a bad cable or a ground loop?
Maybe just restart the computer, take a cable from the gear that recorded well and make sure your levels are all set right. And also try to plug the power of digitakt in the same power brick as the computer and do not connect the usb as this might solve any usb or power power ground loop. Big chance youll find all is ok after taking these steps. Then reconnect everything one by one and check if the problem returns and which connection or step causes the issue.
DONT get a Focusrite Interface. They are only usable for Hardware configs. But when you need low latency for Hardware AND Plugins, they suck! Get RME (expensive) or an ESI U86 XT (budget but good) for example!
Did you experience problems with a focusrite? I use the zero latency monitoring through focusrites software mixer and all my hardware plays in time with vst’s?
or use the USB-AUDIO-MIDI mode with a phone or a tablet