SergeModular

Matt, interesting you should mention RME; that was gonna be my 1st suggestion; IMHO, the best bang for the buck.. However, Kkkonnkkrete is looking for a USB device and RME's only FW (I presume he's on a PC machine without a FW port). Apogee Duet is most probably the best USB option out there.

Kkkonnkkrete, should you decide to go the RME route, FW can be easily added to your machine for about $50.. As far as the grounding issue; I would definetly ground the USB/FW interface's audio jacks to the SERGE PSU (if you want to be 1000% certain, check with Mr. Puller).. Also, if your computer's not running on a battery, connect it to the same AC circuit as the SERGE.

Hope this helps
Y.


From: matthew carpenter <matfhew.carpenfer@...>
Reply-To: <SergeModular@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:35:21 -0400
To: <SergeModular@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [SergeModular] good USB-audio interface for digitally recording serge?




I haven't used it but the Apogee Duet might be what you're looking for. Very high quality A/D/A converters, small size, and not an overabundance of I/O.

However, I can't recommend the RME Fireface 800 (or 400, if you you want smaller and firewire-bus-powered) enough. Rock-solid drivers, excellent sound quality compared to my previous audio interfaces, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything when I record my Serge. All of the work I've shared on my various pages are recorded via the Fireface 800 at 96 kHz.

You may have a grounding issue, but I'm not an expert on that. What are the other interfaces you tried? It seems unusual that you'd encounter the same sort of noise with multiple interfaces. So you don't hear this noise when the Serge is connected directly to an amp/monitors/headphones?

Matt


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:00 AM, kkonkkrete <kkonkkrete@...> wrote:

I tried a couple out but they all seem to have quite audible aliasing
problems and some kind of digital noise under some conditions when I
used my Serge. I can think of a couple of reasons why this might happen:
(i) due to the very high frequencies output by the Serge
(ii) a grounding issue? I didn't do anything to attach the USB-audio
interfaces to the ground banana jack on the Serge PSU (is this even a
good idea, if the interface gets its power over USB?)

How do you do digital recordings of your Serge gear? Can you
recommend a good interface -- I'm looking for quality over quantity (I
don't need more than 2 stereo channels).

Any recommendations would be most heartily appreciated!

Cheerio,
Kkkonnkkrete