| | |  | Sound & Stage | Home » » Yamaha Audiogram 6 audio interface | | | | | | | Description: | | The AUDIOGRAM Series has been carefully designed to make setting up your computer-based recording environment an absolute breeze. Coming as a complete kit, the AUDIOGRAM6 and AUDIOGRAM3 each bundle together a hardware interface that adds audio inputs and outputs to your computer, software for recording and producing music, and a USB cable for connecting the audio interface. s such, either package will instantly turn your computer into a powerful yet intuitive tool for recording and editing audio from virtually any microphone or audio input device. What's more, setup is as easy as installing the bundled music-production application, CUBASE AI, on your computer and connecting the audio interface using the USB cable provided! You're then ready to connect instruments, microphones, CD players, MP3 players, and even old record or tape players for recording straight into CUBASE AI. | | | Features: | |
• 2 mic/Hi-Z inputs
• 2 stereo inputs
• Phantom 48V power
• USB bus powered
• Cubase AI included
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Yamaha Audiogram 6 - USB Interface, Mixing Abilities, and 48 Phantom Volts of PowerJan 06, 2012
By Chadia Mathurin
If you're looking for a USB device with mixing abilities, 48 phantom volts of power, then the Yamaha Audiogram could possibly be what you're looking for. However,If you have no patience to figure things out, then this is NOT for you. From my experience, it is not a plug and play product. You may have to go into your control panel and play around with your sound settings until you get the right fit. I bought this product, because I had a desire to get into music production. I wanted a device that would allow me to use my keyboard and a condenser mic on my laptop, while producing good quality sound into Fruity Loops. I assume that there is some tweaking for professional producers, that I am unaware of, because I am simply unable to get my mic to produce that professional crisp recorded sound that it produces when it is in function ex-Fruity Loops.
Having said that, I was able to use this device, in conjunction with a Powered USB Hub and plug it into my iPad2 with Garageband for iPad. The result was excellent. My mic produced the crisp sounds that I expected it to, and I was even able to simultaneously use another mic and instrument. I would therefore conclude that the my initial problem has nothing to do with the product, but rather with my inexperience in using Audio Interfaces in conjunction with music production software.
I gave the product a 4-star review, simply because it wasn't plug and play and requires a little more than a basic knowledge of computers to set it up correctly. This may not be suitable for everyone. The advantages far outweigh the negative. It has a sleek, sturdy, light build, and gives one the ability to revolutionize music production with very little. I also like that its features allow it to be used as a mixer, controlling compression and gain. For me the biggest plus was the 48 Phantom volts of power. This is very important for those who own condenser mics.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Only buy it, if you know how to use it!Dec 25, 2010
By reinhard sual
If you have experienced with DAW (digital audio workstation) before, than this little thing is very good and handy Mixer with USB connectivity to Computer.
I actually used it (most of the time) as a Mixer for 'mini home theater & mutimedia' setup. (See IMAGE).
So I can record TV program (sound only, from DirecTV).
Singing, Recording VO,Podcasting, using decent Large Capsule Condenser Mic with Phantom, with Ableton Live and facilitate lots of Plug-In (The Latency is acceptable though, and without plug-in the latency is zero). Also Sony Sound Forge or Cakewalk Sonar. But never use the Cubase!
If you know electronic and all those ground-loop things, you can avoid all noises! But if you just casual user, and dont want to bother with proper setup, do not buy this!
Read NO further!
(But if you do:)
As mentioned above, I am having fun using this Audiogram 6, for ;mini home theater & muti media' setup.
(See my setup on the IMAGE!)
This setup can rival Thousand Dollar Home Theater in Sound/Picture quality with only fraction of the cost. And it has tons of features and capability you can ever imagine.
Complete setup:
'mini home theater' which is cheaply bought but very 'HIGH' in Quality:
* TCL 32" 1080p
* M-Audio AV40
* BIC Venturi V80 subwoofer
* DirecTV HD-DVR HR24 with Network Adaptor(can play My Computer Video, Music, Photo ETC)
* Yamaha Audiogram 6 as MIXER (connected to My Computer)
My Computer:
* Decent Quad Core with 8GB dual-channel RAM, GigaByte based Mobo, Cooler Master HAF case
* 2 X 1 Tb RAID-0 SATA-2 for Workspace , 1 TB SATA for OS
* 64 Bit Windows 7 with VMware Workstation (running Mac OS X)
* Dual Head nvdia based
* Dual Display (1920X1080)
Software:
* Cakewalk Sonar 8.5
* Sony Sound Forge 10
* Ableton Live
* Adobe Premiere (part of CS 5)
Not Firewire, but not badMar 27, 2012
By John OBrien
Previously I was running a firewire solo with Cubase SE3 on a system with 2gb RAM and a P4 2.8Ghz with a 64Mb video card. Recording was flawless, and Native Instruments plugins were zero latency. Ran about 16 tracks audio and, say 8 tracks MIDI. SE3 worked well. Got a budget laptop HP G series with a 2.3 dual core cpu. No firewire ports (whats up with diminishing firewire support?!! Bring it back to the Laptop please!!). So I thought I'd get an Audiogram 6. Seemed cool. USB 1.1 (2.0's are a bit scant in supply). Came with Cubase AI 5. Cool! I'm a fan of Cubase. I did not like Cubase 5 because there were no MIDI effects, VSTs were cumbersome to assign as it uses a different VST folder/version (better? Really? No). Yes you can assign a vst common folder, but you don't get full functionality with the VST plugin (like I hated with DirectX). Enough about Cubase for now. So, you get this budget laptop, with a budget mic, in a home (budget) studio, with a set of budget speakers/headphones (not budget for me. I'm picky about speakers and headphones.) My whole cabling is TRS or Mic (XLR). Am I going to expect awesome Professional Studio quality from a largely budget system? No. That said. I found this usb interface to be a lot of fun. I am very skilled at tweaking ASIO and achieving low latency while stripping out the issues that lead to clicks and pops. Ran VST Instruments with recorded audio and MIDI, and it worked well. My dual monitors flicker now and then (due to the audiogram). Set the priority to normal, and the latency to normal. When set to high, you get some pops and the latency improves by a whole 4ms (that's nothing! No improvement) If you run windows 7 64 bit (or any os for that matter) please install and use the Yamaha ASIO driver. I have toyed with trying ASIO4ALL driver, but my system is so far so good. I was blown away at the clarity recording from the mic! The on board compressor is very handy! Recorded voice with pauses to see if I could hear noise. Nope. Purely quiet. Don't be fooled by the small hissing in headphones when recording. That hiss is only routed to the headphones and does not appear on the recorded track, so crank it up and sing at whatever level (no need to back away from the mic at times). In sum, firewire is miles ahead of this usb 1.1 24 vs 16 bit for example, and a couple other things. I miss firewire, and plan to return to the FWsolo when I build my next desktop recording computer. For now, the Audiogram is a worthwhile replacement. It is simply irritating to have to fiddle with it to adjust to varying recording situations. Love the sound. AI 5? I went back to SE3. Much better (old, I know. Saving for Artist 6, but not sure if Audiogram 6 can handle Artist 6. Steinberg says it can). Hopefully I'll be back to Firewire by then. Are you a home budget musician recording your own music to enjoy? I would suggest this one. Are you a beginner to the whole ASIO tweaking thing? You may get frustrated. Cubase has been confusing for some ( I understand). I like Cubase (after spending a great deal of time learning how to setup and use it efficiently). Enough said.
Great Little InterfaceMar 16, 2012
By J Music
I hooked mine up to a Mac using Garageband without a hitch. I did not load anything but simply used Garageband. I found it to be plug and play. Worked right out of the box with not one issue or challenge. With Macs it's probably best to not use any of the software that comes with the Audiogram. Just wish Yamaha made a comparable 24 bit unit.
Easy to use, no latency issuesFeb 13, 2012
By Richard J. Maggio
I'm using this to record and mix guitar tracks. I'm only laying down a track one at a time and only see possibly doing 2 at a time in the future, so this was perfect. My main concern was latency, which I've read from other product reviews can be a significant issue. I installed the Yamaha ASIO driver and left it set to the default setting of "medium". Even though it's not technically 0 latency, it virtually is since I can't detect it.
A great feature is that you can adjust the volume of the what you are recording over right on the Audiogram. This can be adjusted independantly from the overall monitoring volume! It's great that you don't have to muck about with the Windows audio mixer to adjust the levels of playback through the Audiogram.
I am using this with Adobe Audition because I had a copy and it is what I'm familiar with. The Audiogram works perfectly with it. I did install Cubase and managed to work through all of the licensing stuff. The UI and usage paradigm is completely different from Audition and I found it to be far from intuitive to figure out how to use. I won't bother with Cubase again until I find myself in a situation where Audition won't do something I want. If I had to rely on using Cubase, I would not rate this product 5 stars.
I had no issues with noise. I have it connected to my Dell Studio 15 laptop.
In short, if you have multi-track audio software that you are familiar with and want to add on a low latency audio interface, the Audiogram will work well for. That also holds true if you have used Cubase before. If you are new to multi-track recording on a PC, you may want to include the purchase of usable multi-track audio software in your budget. I have no personal experience with it, but I've read that a product called Reaper is user friendly, powerful, and relatively inexpensive.
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