Soundcard : MAYA 44 USB

[Peter Willis]

Hey guys !
I just wanted to give my feedback about the maya 44 usb which I recently purshased (and send back almosr right away).
The surprinsing thing about it at this first sight is that it is REALLY light ! So much that I first thought the package was empty !
It was plug and play on my macbook.
So far so good...but then comes the trouble...
The sound is awfull, my on board macbook soundcard has almost better quality. I also had lots of cracks and pops even with high latency. And I tried to use the inputs with traktor (with a cd player), and It sounded really really bad...To me this device is complety unuseable ! So I decided to put a bit more money, and i'm going for a presonus firebox !

Hopes this help !

[EanGolden]

Hey Peter, can you specify which computer and OS you were running?

[tekki]

I can read macbook, but what OSx?

[Peter Willis]

I'm running Tiger (10.4.11), on a 2 ghz, 2 go macbook

[DJ T]

lawl I purchased this card today, but i guess I won't have these problems on Windows.

[Peter Willis]

I hope this will work out well for you..keep us updated !

[DJ T]

I'm counting to receive it in the following hours, I will edit this post then and tell you my first experiences

€: Whoop there it is



I need to try it out, I will give you feedback soon

[DJ T]

Alright I just had a gig with it on a party with about 30 people dancing, there were absolutely no problems!
I choosed the Maya 44 USB Asio Driver and set the latency to "fast" which is about 3 ms I think. All effects working fine (which I think needs the most processing).
One thing I did:
I didn't put the headphones into the "Headphone"-Output, but instead into the "analog 3/4"-Output. That's because thats the only way to get them working with the cueing/monitoring way that's inside Traktor. I don't like the monitoring system that comes with it and is always active when you put the headphones in the headphone-output. I think it's the way that normal mixers are monitoring, except that you only can control it inside the Asio-Settings which is very uncomfortable I think.

[dozen]

I just ordered the Maya44 off ebay. How do I hook it up with Traktor so I can headphone cue the next track? Thanks!

[MrWong]

what you need to buy is a RCA male to a female hosa or RCA to a 3.5mm female (for smaller jack), now you can plug your headphones into the maya 44, and setup traktor to the right outputs for cueing. Done!
Radio Shack is your friend!