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Yes, of course. By writing "the dedicated software drivers" I meant the "H4 ASIO Driver Version 1.0.0.1". AFAIK there are no other drivers for H4 (I tried ASIO4ALL but it did not detect the hardware, but on Mac the OS X took care of it right away, although still with tiny audio artifacts) . I'm hoping an update to the ASIO driver is due soon... ;-) per On 10 nov 2006, at 02.22, Joshua Carroll wrote: > Ha! Very cool. > > Did you download the ASIO driver for it? I've not had any problems > getting a great sound as an interface via ASIO... > > --Josh > > > > Per Boysen wrote: >> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:06:16 -0600 >> >>> Just thought I'd throw out a plug for the new Zoom H4. It works >>> as a great 2x2 audio interface for Mobius (it has some built-in >>> effects I haven't tried yet, but will work in audio-interface >>> mode), and the other features make it ideal for collecting found- >>> sounds or putting together rough song ideas on the fly. The >>> built-in stereo condenser mic has really impressed me so far. I >>> expected it to pretty much suck for the price, but I've been >>> getting some excellent acoustic guitar recordings with it. >>> >>> Anyway, for the price, I'm really happy, so I thought I'd pass it >>> along. >>> >>> --Josh >> >> >> Someone posted and asked about latency. I just picked one up this >> morning to check out, and may have some information to share. >> Regarding the option to use the H4 as an audio interface the >> software drivers are bad news. So bad actually that I would rather >> say that the H4 is not usable at all "as laptop sound card". I >> tested it for hours and although I used the largest available >> buffer I could not get a clean sound from it. Not on Mac with OS X >> and not in Windows XP with the dedicated software drivers. I'm >> glad I don't have to review it in a magazine because the marketing >> of it is partly misleading. >> >> But the H4 is great for other purposes - just forget about that >> audio interface dimension - like for example the stereo recording >> and the effects. Good guitar sounds in there (Some people might >> want to use it as a four track porta studio as well). H4 is also >> awesome as a USB2 based SD card reader. And it rocks as a portable >> field recorder. I like it so much that I decided to buy one as a >> replacement for my old portable DAT recorder. >> >> And I did actually find a place for it in my laptop looping rig - >> as a mic pre amp, merge box and input reverb unit :-) I feed the >> H4 with one acoustic flute mic and one line level EWI synth >> clarinet. Then I put a simple stereo cable from the H4 into the >> PCMCIA sound card Echo Indigo i/o on my lappy. That's a minimal >> set-up that sounds decently ok. Two instantly connected >> instruments of which one is electric and can be used for heavily >> distorted sounds that would not be possible with a microphone. >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.boysen.se (Swedish) >> www.looproom.com (international) >> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) >> http://www.myspace.com/looproom