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M-Audio Audiosport Quattro MIDI/USB Interface
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Ease of Use:		6 out of 10
Quality:		2 out of 10
Value:		3 out of 10
Average Rating:		3.67 out of 10
Genuine pro-quality sound, up to 24-bit/96kHz, through your computer's standard USB port. Pristine A/D/A converters. Multitrack recording and mixing without PCI card installation, zero-latency direct monitoring for simple recording and dubbing, balanced 1/4" TRS connectors, and selectable in/out levels to accommodate different instruments. 1x1 USB MIDI interface.

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Review from jues
Ease of Use: 6 out of 10
Quality: 2 out of 10
Value: 3 out of 10
Comments: I used to do a lot of work on a laptop system running cubase. I bought an M-Audio Quattro because it had 4 ins and outs and ran on USB. In usage I found it to be rather crap. The USB 1.1 bandwith is very narrow, eg it can only allow a small amount of data to get to the computer each second - and as you can appreciate, 4 audio tracks at 44.1, 16bit is a fair chunk of data.

The card has both ASIO and WDM drivers (in WDM mode you can only access 2 I/O ports), both of which suffered from heavy dropout, even the 2 channel mode (were only 2 of the 4 inputs are used to save bandwidth) the card still exhibited the occasioanl "digital hiccup"). In the end I sold this card on eBay - glad to be rid of it. I replaced it with a PCMIA solution - that was good.

Verdict: M-Audio tech support (finally) said my laptop was incombatible - my laptop was a toshiba, how much more compatible did a laptop have to be? I did look else where.