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That's weird. I didn't notice any artifacts, but I haven't really run it through the ringer yet. I'll play with it some more and see if I can get it to reproduce your results. If so, I'm going to be all over Zoom to fix that as I bought it specifically because it could double as an interface and I need it to work. Thanks for the heads-up! --Josh Per Boysen wrote: > 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 > > > >