#Roland octa capture driver mac manual
#Roland octa capture driver mac upgrade

The knob controls can take a bit of getting used to and other than expansion limitations I can think of no real issues I have had with this wonderful unit! It would have been really really awesome if it had a monitor A/B function too. In a nutshell: It sounds good, is easily portable, individual phantom power, auto sense, upto 10 inputs once you add the 2 digital ins, great autosense feature, no latecy on my set up (Win 8.1 64 bit, i7 2.8Ghz, 16GB RAM, Samsung EVO SSD). While this doesnt really make up for the expansion limitations, points to Roland. On the plus side it does have a MIDI in/out which was also something I was unable to find on too many competing interfaces. Even though I've used Roland products for over 10 years, I also like variety so for tonal varierty I'd prefer to get a dual input pre amp with a digital out for the spdif input and make use of the full 10 inputs this awesome unit offers. I also rated it slightly down on characteristics, as the lack of an Adat connection didnt bother me when i purchased it but am now unable to expand without getting another octacapture and stacking them. I rated the Octacapture slightly down on sound quality, while it is fantastic for the price I can only imagine there are better albeit more expensive products out there.

#Roland octa capture driver mac manual

Some of it can be a bit fiddly to set up, the reverb, the input and output mixers A-D, keep the manual handy! All great features nonetheless, and the software it comes with makes it much easier to navigate the interface including said features. Nice reverb for monitoring: the reverb is not recorded through to the daw. Hi pass, phase and compression on all channels is nice though i mostly only use the hi pass. The Autosense feature is very, very, very handy although going through each channel and setting the levels individually is not too much effort either. Setting it up to use in Cubase 8 was a breeze if you know what you are doing, I have had no need to fiddle with any latency settings and get no noticeable lag or delay in any sense. I really don't understand why batch phantom power is even a thing! Individual phantom power was a biggie for me.

#Roland octa capture driver mac upgrade

I got this to upgrade to a PC based set up after years of using a dedicated Roland VS2400CD, so while I have no way to compare it to any other recent USB interfaces I can say that it does a fine job for my requirements.