Simon Mair

Cheers for sharing the link. At least I know now that I'm not the only one around having this issue. So fingers crossed that a solution might be integrated at some point soon.

The problem also occurs when you’re working on one screen only and you have the mixer in the dock only. There’s no way you can avoid scrolling up and down in there. 
 

Maybe it would be enough to introduce a command like CTRL+wheel to allow scrolling only without changing any values. 

I wonder if I’m the only person having this issue:
My Mixer window doesn’t completely fit on the screen, so I have to scroll up and down, using the mouse wheel. The problem is, that when you’re using the wheel while your pointer is right above the Pan setting or the level fader of any channel, it will accidentally change the value of the respective setting - mostly without you even noticing it. How I hate it when that happens. 😫

It would be great to be able to control the functions of the mouse wheel or to disable the wheel to change parameters like pan or fader level. 

4 hours ago, ensonced said:

Haven't tried them, or even really thought about it, they are just not up to the task really, I look at them as toys. I think they are mainly aimed at people who use the BandLab app and record with their phones or similar, just a cheap easy way of connecting to their device. I doubt anyone is really going to trade in their current interface for one of these or anything. 

Azlow3 put it best on the old forums

http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3776855

 

That covers it really well. If you're completely new into recording and only have a phone at hands, it's a super simple solution to get some recordings on your phone. The sound quality was completely acceptable (given that the massive clipping truly was due to a defective device...). The latency however made direct monitoring almost impossible.

Knowing now that it only takes an OTG adapter to connect a normal USB interface to most smartphones, I'd recommend to go down that path with a cheap Behringer interface since those offer a lot more features regarding monitoring and signal pre-amping. With a bonus, that you can use the same interface if you want to switch to a computer.

8 hours ago, Jim Fogle said:

@Simon Mair  I haven't purchased anything yet.  What problem are you experiencing?

I was interested because of the pricing.  Especially since the BandLab Store web pages have a banner stating

However, once I found the fine print that states

That kind of takes away any price advantage Bandlab had.

So I started checking out the website information a little closer.  I couldn't find any information about device drivers or conversion specifications so I e-mailed my questions to Bandlab.

The digital interfaces do not ship with a driver disk and drivers are not available for download from the Bandlab Store website.  Instead Bandlab uses generic Microsoft USB drivers.  Last, the digital interface recording specifications are 44.1 sample rate at 16 bit depth.

I maybe wrong but I believe purpose built external hardware works best when paired with purpose built drivers.  While the recording specifications match the commercial CD standard I prefer using 24 bit depth for recording as it provides more gain setting headroom.

 

I got the simple Link Analog one mainly to be able to quickly record some ideas on my iPhone. It doesn't need any drivers since it's transferring the audio data analog by simply using the headset jack of the iPhone or any other smartphone which makes it a super easy to handle device.

The issue that I've experience was a nasty clipping at the XLR input (even with gain close to zero) as soon as the signal exceeded "whisper" level. In other words, I had to dial down my guitar amp (miced with SM58 directly into the Link Analog) below my normal bedroom level to escape the clipping.

Meanwhile, I spoke to the guys at Thomann where I got it from and they think that I've simply gotten a defective interface, so I will return it asap. However, I've also figured out that it's easily possible to use my "old" Lexicon Omega Interface with iPhone/iPad by simply using a (no-name) OTG camera connection kit. First tests were successful with a decent sound quality, so that would clearly be my most favorite solution. Even if it's not as mobile as the Link Analog. So looks like I will also be leaving the Link Analog train again soon.

Hi Jim!

I was looking around everywhere to find some user feedback or discussions around the Link Anlog but there is basically nothing (except your fairly old thread here...) which makes me wonder a lot too. Have you bought one of the Bandlad interfaces in the meantime? I have bought the Link Analog recently and I'm having an issue with it that would be interesting to discuss with other users since I'm not sure if it's a standard behaviour or if I got a defective unit.

So all you Link Analog users out there, would you please step forward?! 😀

Cheers
Simon