Roland Rubix sound cards
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Roland Rubix sound cards
There's also the Rubix 22 with 2 less outputs and no hardware compressor and the Rubix 44 with two more inputs.
Has anyone tried these? Were there any quirks setting it up with Linux or was it plug-and-play? How do they sound?
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I'd contest this. It may be true in many cases, but we use an X32 mixer which we are dearly in love with. It's a great live mixer and tons of bang for your buck. The Midas style preamps sound very clean and neutral and we use them for recording with great success (albeit nowdays with additional character preamps in front on some channels). The build quality seems good, we have the mixer for 3-4 years and it still has to fail us.Be. wrote:Behringer makes bad sounding gear that breaks quickly. That's why it's so cheap.
Certainly even if designed by Midas it won't be the same quality, but one would really have to work hard to find fault with it.
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If it's a class compliant device then it should be plug and play. I reckon this device is kind of the successor to the UA-25(EX), those were awesome so I bet these Rubix interfaces are great too.Be. wrote:Has anyone tried these? Were there any quirks setting it up with Linux or was it plug-and-play?
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Behringer has made a lot of crap (remember those cheap platsic guitar stomp boxes?) but they also make very sturdy, good sounding gear. I've got a BCR2000 and a BCF2000 and those are still great devices. Recently I bought an ADA8200 which is just so much bang for the buck, almost unbelievable.Be. wrote:Behringer makes bad sounding gear that breaks quickly. That's why it's so cheap.
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Anyway, at this stage, I would definitely recommend this hardware for linux.
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I still don't regret buying it. I am running it on 88000 or so MHz and I get 3-8% CPU use on my Ryzen 1700 mid range computer.
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Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP Firewire interface
Mixbus 5
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What is important to me besides that is that the audio quality is good and especially that the mic preamps sound good and are very low-noise as I plan to do also classical music recordings with it. I think the Roland Rubix 44 and the Tascam US-4x4HR could probably fit the bill.
Can anybody share his or her experience with the Roland Rubix series in this regards and also the Tascam US-HR-series (US-2x2HR or US-4x4HR). If someone has even compared those two and report about it that would be a dream )
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I'm going to get the Roland right now! I will test it tonight with Mixxx on a party, and Bitwig tomorrow, as a live sound card.
Don't buy Behringer ANYTHING ever!
- they are eating/consolidating the music industry.
- they do ripoffs of other peoples designs/ don't invest in R&D (Mackie, Roland, etc, ALL their circuits are RIPOFF designs! Support real design)
- they bought CoolAudio a chip company JUST to ripoff Curtis Semiconductors the maker of the original CEM3340 oscillator-on-a-chip
(WHY do you think you see all these 'new' Behringer products directly copying old 80's ROLAND products that went out of patent coverage!?) - they threaten people who review their products badly (Uli Behringer has several legal cases pending on this)
- their entire operational philosophy is "make it cheaper, kill the competition/actual innovators, copy their designs and swoop in on their suppliers)
Don't make the mistake of thinkng "what do I care, it's cheap, therefore good for me" because that is what is making the world worse.
Invest in what you believe in.
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vectorselector wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:58 amI'm going to get the Roland right now! I will test it tonight with Mixxx on a party, and Bitwig tomorrow, as a live sound card.
Don't buy Behringer ANYTHING ever!
- they are eating/consolidating the music industry.
- they do ripoffs of other peoples designs/ don't invest in R&D (Mackie, Roland, etc, ALL their circuits are RIPOFF designs! Support real design)
- they bought CoolAudio a chip company JUST to ripoff Curtis Semiconductors the maker of the original CEM3340 oscillator-on-a-chip
(WHY do you think you see all these 'new' Behringer products directly copying old 80's ROLAND products that went out of patent coverage!?)- they threaten people who review their products badly (Uli Behringer has several legal cases pending on this)
- their entire operational philosophy is "make it cheaper, kill the competition/actual innovators, copy their designs and swoop in on their suppliers)
Don't make the mistake of thinkng "what do I care, it's cheap, therefore good for me" because that is what is making the world worse.
Invest in what you believe in.
But iin contrast to the Rubix I had the UMC just works..