Input quantity can vary from 2 to several. Portability Eliminates any noise produced by your internal sound card. Accepts 3.5mm input/output EXTERNAL SOUND CARD. RME is probably only interface I would ever consider worth getting second hand. No pre-amp needed for single microphone input. Test same way without AK1 and you will know if NI fixed it or not. Open any software that makes AK1 active, open task manager and watch performance for a while, see if there are wave like spikes, can range from 15 to 50% (on top of whatever default idle).
Note: while working fine on OSX or XP, Audio Kontrol was unusable in Vista - constant spikes (wave like more than spikes) I do not know if that issue was ever fixed by NI. Sound quality of your internal sound card is not good of your PC Here are the high quality external usb sound card for your laptop device such as Ugreen.
The only interface that I know of, that can run at low latency on (tuned) Vista is Indigo express (0.35 to 0.40 ms). I doubt you will get better results with Motu, even RME which unquestionably is THE interface for Live live, specially guitar playing.īefore buying anything I would suggest test install XP and than decide, fine as general use OS ,Vista is not much suitable for any audio work, if at all requires serious tuning which is much more tricky and complex then tuning of XP (which with you computer you wont even need).įor using Live, any audio live - XP or OSX.