Make your mix flow with MegaSeg’s support of multiple audio outputs to preview and cue tracks. Here are a few featured devices for adding additional outputs for MegaSeg.
The NuForce Icon uDAC
is a high‐performance USB Digital Audio Converter. The quality and versatility of the uDAC’s performance belies its tiny size. With its extensive power supply, filtering capabilities, and charge‐pump circuit as a foundation, the uDAC translates data into a two‐volt analog signal. The NuForce uDAC’s performance equals or exceeds that of a great many audiophile CD players. It has outputs for analog RCA, digital coaxial, and a high‐performance headphone jack.
The
Griffin iMic
is an audio device with both input and output jacks. The 1/8th inch mini‐jacks include a line‐level output, and a mic or line‐level input. The iMic will power headphones louder than your Mac’s built‐in output. It’s an excellent and inexpensive solution.
Behringer’s UCA202 U‐Control
is similar to the iMic except it uses RCA jacks and includes a S/PDIF digital output.
Numark has various mixers with built‐in USB audio, including the
DXM‐01 USB,
and less expensive M1‐USB
mixer. Simply connect them to your Mac via USB, and you have two outputs direct from MegaSeg to the mixer.
The
PreSonus FireStudio Mobile
is a 24‐bit FireWire based output device, and one of the most professional‐quality mobile interface in its class delivering higher‐quality analog to digital converters (Dynamic Range 110dB), and rugged build quality.
From Roland/Edirol is the USB based
UA‐25EX
for a high quality 24bit/96kHz audio interface stereo output.
The
Rane MP4
is a two‐bus mixer with two stereo Line/Phono inputs, two stereo USB digital audio inputs and one stereo digital audio output to USB. A‐bus, B‐bus, Master Mix or Microphone may be assigned to the USB record channel. Ground isolation is provided between the mixer and the PC, removing a major obstacle to good quality PC sound. The MP 4 supports bit depths up to 24‐bit and sample rates up to 48 kHz.
M‐Audio has an assortment of USB, FireWire, and PCI based audio devices available that are professional and reasonably priced. For example the
Transit USB,
Fast Track,
Fast Track Pro (with two outputs in one unit),
and
Firewire Solo.