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The Ultimate Guitar-to-USB Interface to Jam and Record with Killer Modeling Amps and Effects
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- Plug in your favorite guitar and turn your PC or Mac computer into a guitar amp and recording system without the need for any other hardware- Package also includes Kristal 16-track music production and Audacity editing software
- Works directly with your PC or Mac computerultra-low latency ASIO driver for PC included
- Stereo Headphone output lets you jam with your computer and can also be used for monitoring with active monitor speakers
- Variable-speed file playback function for MP3, WAV, AIFF audio filesperfect for easy learning and practicing
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By Michael (Seattle)
This thing works, but the devil is in the software (I am writing from a PC). While a number of different programs are included with this product none of them make it simple to record. The amp modeling software is compatible and recognizes the hardware, but isn't suitable for recording. Audacity isn't compatible out of the box and neither is the EnergyXT2. This drove me absolutely crazy. For a couple of weeks the only thing I could do was practice through headphones (which works very well). Plain and simple - I bought this to record.
I am sure there are costly software solutions out there that can recognize the USB/ASIO drivers and record via this interface but I didn't want to pay for something I thought I should get out of the box. Fortunately, after much turmoil I discovered that for the computer savvy individual there is a way. Audacity can be built to include native ASIO support! However this requires compiling your own custom (and non-distributable) build. The excellent step by step directions to do so are here: [...]
Once I got Audacity to recognize the USB/ASIO drivers I was much happier with the purchase. I still give the product 3-stars because I assume the average consumer won't want to go through the pain of custom building software to get a recording ability. To me, a out of the box recording is a basic requirement of a "Guitar-to-USB Interface".
By Vincent Lachapelle (Montreal)
Good software and all but if you dont have a good sound card,you can forget about doing fast picking on heavy distortion.
Its either clean and laggy or noisy and and keeping up with the picking.
I wouldnt buy it.
By C. Phillips (Alabama)
I used this product on a Dell 9" netbook (1.6Ghz Atom, 2GB SDRAM) with Windows 7 RC, a custom PC (2.4Ghz QuadCore, 4GB SDRAM) with Windows 7 RC and a Mac Mini (2.0Ghz Core2Duo, 2GB SDRAM) with OSX.
On Windows 7 I did have problems installing the driver from the setup but expected this with any new OS. After it tried to install I just updated the driver and pointed to the Behringer one. I also installed ASIO4ALL since it has a little bit more configuration anyway and can help alleviate latency issues. On OSX I just plugged it in.
With the Windows 7 RC netbook and desktop I used a demo of Guitar Rig 3 to test out the real-time effects processing. It took a little tweaking of the settings for the ASIO settings to get the latency down below 10ms and also to get the output to go to my speakers rather than the headphone jack on the UCG102. On the Dell netbook Guitar Rig was unusable. I have read other posts that have some suggestions to get it to work but I could not. This is a processing power limitation and has nothing to do with the UCG102. On my QuadCore PC this was not an issue.
With OSX I used a demo of Guitar Rig and Garageband to test out the real-time effects processing. I had some issues with latency in Garageband since it doesn't let you do the sample rate adjusting that Guitar Rig 3 does but still was within acceptable range. It also took me a little while to get the sound to output to my speakers rather than the headphone jack on the UCG102 (HINT: create an aggregate device in the Audio MIDI utility).
All-in-all the device does exactly what I want it to do. It doesn't work nearly as well in OSX as in Windows 7 but it is still within the real-time playblack realm. I am sure if I wanted to inspect it any further that there are some hacks/tweaks in OSX I could apply to improve the latency.
By R. Sidhanti (Highland Park, NJ)
This is a nice product. Worked out of the box for me. The guitar combos are descent and are good for a beginner.
I use headphones while playing the guitar. I would love to connect my headphones and hear the music from it rather from through link. This way it would be easier to play guitar and listen to other music with out switching. This is the only dissapointment
By William B. Burrows (Yonkers NY)
I works just fine for learning how to play an electric guitar without a amp.
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