M-Audio 410

Sort Of A Protest Song · Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:29 am

Hey all,

I have an opportunity to buy a used M-Audio 410 for under $200 and was wondering if this was a good choice or not. I looked around here and saw that a couple of people thought they were alright, but didn't seem as if anyone owned one or used on before.

Here are the specs: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/F ... -main.html

Thanks!

Sort Of A Protest Song · Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:54 pm

Anyone?

Sorry to bug, but I have to let the guy know soon before it goes to eBay.....

Thanks again for any help

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:31 pm

get it

never owned or used this particular model, but it's firewire (which is better than USB for audio transfer) and it's m-audio, who i've always been happy with for their target markets.

mattinbeloit · Post by **mattinbeloit** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:13 am

It looks good and it's m-audio, enough said...

Sort Of A Protest Song · Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:04 pm

Thank you both

dmbwaldo22 · Post by **dmbwaldo22** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:28 pm

I have this model.

It's good for what it is. I mean, if you want more inputs, obviously this isn't the way to go. The only problem I've run into is compatibility with my external hard drive. I get clicks and pops when I try to record to it... and then when I try to re-open any ProTools file off that drive, it becomes corrupt and unreadable and erases the entire drive. So, I've just been keeping my host drive as clean as possible and running off of it. I may actually partition 10 GB or so just for ProTools files.

The unit is a very functional, cheap way to get ProTools and get your chops down. It's just not very condusive to recording, say, a drum kit.

bpongo09 · Post by **bpongo09** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:07 pm

bbatsell wrote:get it

never owned or used this particular model, but it's firewire (which is better than USB for audio transfer) and it's m-audio, who i've always been happy with for their target markets.

why is firewire better than USB? or is it only better than usb not usb 2.0

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:25 pm

bpongo09 wrote:
bbatsell wrote:get it

never owned or used this particular model, but it's firewire (which is better than USB for audio transfer) and it's m-audio, who i've always been happy with for their target markets.
why is firewire better than USB? or is it only better than usb not usb 2.0

usb is frame-based, while firewire is a stream. basically what that means is that USB will wait for an entire frame to be filled before sending the packet of data to the host, which causes what people call latency in audio recording. if you record with a usb-based device, there's a minimum of about 30 milliseconds of latency (and the latency goes up as the quality of components go down). that doesn't seem like a lot, but to computers it is, and it can add up. firewire is a stream of data, so it doesn't wait to fill up any frames. it still has latency due to the nature of any sort of connection between two components, but it's much lower than usb.

dmbwaldo22 wrote:It's good for what it is. I mean, if you want more inputs, obviously this isn't the way to go. The only problem I've run into is compatibility with my external hard drive. I get clicks and pops when I try to record to it... and then when I try to re-open any ProTools file off that drive, it becomes corrupt and unreadable and erases the entire drive. So, I've just been keeping my host drive as clean as possible and running off of it. I may actually partition 10 GB or so just for ProTools files.

I didn't entirely understand what you said there, but that sounds to me like it's an issue with your computer or the software you're using, not anything to do with this device.