RME Fireface UC vs UCX vs UCX II

[KFF]

What's up with the attitude...

It went down the shitter... along with his use of punctuation.

 

[volkan]

Everybody enough smart to ask chatgpt even though 5 years old.
giving advice to anybody to ask AI means it helped ?
Get out

 

[volkan]

What's up with the attitude, @volkan? People with vast experience and technical knowledge have already been really patient with you in many threads. Your attitude doesn't help maintain that going forward.

Please give any idea about the topic
Otherwise you want to explain something to somebody?

 

[Someoldqueenorother]

Fuck AI i prefer real people reviews its easy to look at specs data sheet manual vs i dont need technical shit i need the real user comments thats why i opened to topic and waiting answers please dont interfere here

I'm actually artificial and have no intelligence.

I've not had much time with Audient interfaces. When I did, I was using an SPL Crimson and I preferred the SPL sound. Audient drivers are OK, nothing special. I got my Motu M4 secondhand for around £150 and I'm very happy with it. I haven't used anything I've liked more under £200. M4 is a clear step up from the entry level stuff (NI Komplete Audio 2, Steinberg UR22) in terms of sound quality and to my ears and recollections it's better than older RME stuff like the Hammerfall PCI cards. A/D and D/A conversion has come a long way over the last 10 years.

As a use case, right now I'm runnig Gig Performer and setting up various virtual pedalboards using various plugin pedals from Audiority, Fractal Icons pack 3 for compression, Super Reverb amp and cabinet, Valhalla Delay and Helix Native Cosmos Echo for delay options, Audiority's Neonverb for Midiverb-esque reverbs, and Relab Sonsig ACE for Dimension chorus fun. All of it is controlled by a Morningstar MC6 Pro that landed with me yesterday. It's really quite staggering how good digital stuff is now. Spent a long time compaing the Icons JFET compressor to my Lusithand Alma compressor, and the hardware pedal lost.

 

[volkan]

I'm actually artificial and have no intelligence.

I've not had much time with Audient interfaces. When I did, I was using an SPL Crimson and I preferred the SPL sound. Audient drivers are OK, nothing special. I got my Motu M4 secondhand for around £150 and I'm very happy with it. I haven't used anything I've liked more under £200. M4 is a clear step up from the entry level stuff (NI Komplete Audio 2, Steinberg UR22) in terms of sound quality and to my ears and recollections it's better than older RME stuff like the Hammerfall PCI cards. A/D and D/A conversion has come a long way over the last 10 years.

As a use case, right now I'm runnig Gig Performer and setting up various virtual pedalboards using various plugin pedals from Audiority, Fractal Icons pack 3 for compression, Super Reverb amp and cabinet, Valhalla Delay and Helix Native Cosmos Echo for delay options, Audiority's Neonverb for Midiverb-esque reverbs, and Relab Sonsig ACE for Dimension chorus fun. All of it is controlled by a Morningstar MC6 Pro that landed with me yesterday. It's really quite staggering how good digital stuff is now. Spent a long time compaing the Icons JFET compressor to my Lusithand Alma compressor, and the hardware pedal lost.

Ask to chatgpt dont waste your time buddy

 

[Someoldqueenorother]

Ask to chatgpt dont waste your time buddy

I only use ChatGPS. All it said was "Never go to Runcorn".

 

[volkan]

I only use ChatGPS. All it said was "Never go to Runcorn".

Thats good for you but not enough you should use that "chatgpt" thing, dont waste your time here you will get the answers there

 

[bikescene]

I ended up getting a RME UCX II about 3 weeks ago. It definitely felt like an upgrade to me over the other interfaces I’ve used.

The instrument inputs are lower in noise than what I was using before.I came from 2010s era Steinberg UR and Focusrite Saffire interfaces. The low noise floor has helped immensely when I play high gain amp sims. Single coil guitar playing is a much better experience as well.

The Instrument Inputs 3 and 4 are around 13dBu. Gain can be added digitally in the unit in steps of 0.5dB. Setting input levels is a consistent process with the stepped gain levels, so there’s no struggle of making micro turns on an analog pot to get an exact gain level. Add 1.0dB and it’s close enough for the NDSP plugins.

Latency is very low and driver support appears to be the best in the industry. Audio is stable at low buffer settings, even on an old PC from 2012.

 

[Jarick]

Fuck AI i prefer real people reviews its easy to look at specs data sheet manual vs i dont need technical shit i need the real user comments thats why i opened to topic and waiting answers please dont interfere here

You may want to Google Audient vs MOTU Reddit and then dig through the Reddit responses there. I'm not sure there's going to be much experience with interfaces here, especially the lower end ones. You may also want to look up Julian Krause and watch his videos.

Also, Audient and MOTU really are a ways away from RME especially the UCX. We're talking $200-400 units compared to a $1700 unit.

IMO the MOTU M2/M4 is a very solid entry level interface which should work great for most basic needs, unless you need a lot of I/O or need a lot of headphone power. I haven't used the Audient ID series but have the EVO 4 and it sounds good but it's very basic with an annoying UI.