Recording Studio Equipment

The title is extremely misleading. This introduction to playing piano and reading music is very basic and focuses on playing the melody line with the right hand. If you just bought a Casio and want to play the horn part on pop songs, this is for you.

I bought the Fast Track to practice guitar in Garage Band. I use a Mac Pro Intel running OS 10.5.
SET UP – no issues. Plug and play. In system preferences you need to change input and output to Fast Track USB.
USABILITY – I had to plug my external speakers into Fast Track – this partially disables the system volume control – minor hassle. The design is flawed – inputs for guitar and microphone are on the back of the unit near the USB port. If I’m facing the thing, it makes more sense to have them on the front of the unit, so I can plug in without flipping it around. And since it is so small and light, it can flip over w/ the weight of the cables. I have mine sitting sideways – pretty dumb!
SOUND – is fine for practice. You want to follow Garage Band instructions closely to avoid aggravation.
CONCLUSION – not great, but fine for the price and my purposes.

I don’t have alot of money. I was wanting to do some multi track home recording so i bought this on amazon and set it up on my pc which runs windows xp. I paid a proffesional recording egineer to help me with the set up. once we got everything set up I recorded a track and played it back only to find strange sound blasts and skipping on the track. we tried recording multiple takes and every time there were the strange sounds and skipping of the track. It seemed like protools had intentionally made a faulty product so i would buy their more expensive version.
Anyone have any wisdom concerning this?

thanks, daniel,

I bought this to use at a family reunion and thought it would be fun for the granddaughters. We’ve had a great time with it and I’ve since then bought 10+ karaoke CD’s. I’d say the quality of equipment workmanship is a little disappointing, however, I’ve used it for DVD’s and the picture is as good as my JVC. I’m very pleased with this purchase.