Record guitar and vocals on your computer complete with effects.

The M-Audio Fast Track USB Computer Recording Interface is an easy way to record your guitar with professional results. Just connect Fast Track to the USB port of your computer and you're ready to rock. It comes bundled with Ableton Live Lite intuitive audio recording and MIDI sequencing to help get you started.

Fast Track USB has a switchable (instrument/line) 1/4" input for instruments like guitar, bass, and keyboards, plus an XLR microphone input for recording vocals or other acoustic sounds.

The included GT Player Express software gives you killer effects and virtual stomp boxes so you don't need any other gear to sound great. GT Player Express also plays standard audio file formats like AAC, MP3, and WAV that let you learn and jam along with your favorite music at variable speeds.

Ableton Live Lite
Ableton Live Lite delivers much of the functionality of Ableton Live—the revolutionary, multi-award winning music production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit your musical ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment. Live brings your acoustic, electronic, and virtual instruments—as well as your digital audio recordings and MIDI sequences—together in a single interface with unparalleled ease of use.

Ableton Live Lite 7 sports up to eight tracks, more effect instances, an enhanced audio engine, 64-bit mix summing, multiple time signatures, new and improved devices, side-chaining, refined MIDI timing and more.

Live s Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.

The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing, and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.

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M-Audio Fast Track USB Computer Recording Interface Features:

• 24-bit/48kHz sound
• Compatible with GarageBand and most other music software
• Professional 24-bit/48kHz sound
• XLR mic input with gain control and signal LEDs
• Switchable 1/4" instrument/line input
• 1/8" stereo headphone jack
• RCA stereo output jacks
• Level control for headphones and main outputs
• USB bus-powered
• USB class compliant (OS X 10.3.5 and higher)
• Direct hardware monitoring
• Mono switch equally distributes input signal to left and right channels
• GT Player Express software: professional effects, amp and stompbox modeling, standard audio files play with variable speed playback, standalone operation, ReWire or VST plug-in
  
  Ableton Live Lite
• Intuitive audio recording and MIDI sequencing
• More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors, and EQs
• Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums
• Supports VST and AU effects and instruments
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF and WAV files for DJing and instant remixing
• Tweak Live s controls in real time with any MIDI controller just MIDI map it
• All editing of your musical creations are non-destructive so you can experiment without worries
• Integrated single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation
• Dedicated Instant Mappings for many of M-Audio s controllers
• A wide selection of presets for Live Lite s instruments and effects
• Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials
• Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
• Live Lite is limited to eight tracks, four simultaneous built-in audio effects, four built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project
• Live Lite 7 does not include video support, compressed audio support, or Complex warp mode

Fast Track USB is the easy and professional way to add guitar, vocals, and more to your computer music experience.

M-Audio Fast Track USB Computer Recording Interface Specifications:

• Sample Rates: 44.1kHz and 48kHz
  
  Microphone Input
• Max Input: -2.2dBu (0.6 Vrms), min. gain
• Signal to Noise Ratio: -100dB @ 48kHz (a-weighted), min. gain
• Dynamic Range: 100dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted), min. gain
• THD + N: 0.0053%, 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHz, min. gain
• Frequency Response: -0.12/+0.08dB, 22Hz to 22kHz @ 48kHz, min. gain
• Available Gain: 45dB
• Input Impedance: 1MOhm
  
  Input (Guitar setting)
• Max Input: +3.2dBV (1.5 Vrms)
• Signal to Noise Ratio: -97dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• Dynamic Range: 97dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• THD + N: 0.0049%, 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHz
• Frequency Response: -0.45/+0.00dB, 22Hz to 22kHz @ 48kHz
• Input Impedance: 500kOhms
  
  Input (Line setting)
• Max Input: +2.3dBV (1.3 Vrms)
• Signal to Noise Ratio: -98dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• Dynamic Range: 98dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• THD + N: 0.0045%, 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHz
• Frequency Response: -0.35/+0.01 dB, 22Hz to 22kHz @ 48kHz
• Input Impedance: 20kOhms (bal.), 10kOhms (unbal.)
  
  Line Outputs
• Max Output: +2dBV (1.2 Vrms)
• Signal to Noise Ratio: -105dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• Dynamic Range: 105dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• THD + N: 0.0039%, 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHz
• Frequency Response: -0.15/+0.03dB, 22Hz to 22kHz @ 48kHz
• Crosstalk: -100dB, 1kHz, channel-to-channel
• Output Impedance: 240 ohms
  
  Headphone Outputs
• Max Output (@ 32-ohms): -2 dBV (0.8 Vrms)
• Signal to Noise Ratio: -102dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• Dynamic Range: 102dB @ 48kHz (A-weighted)
• THD + N: 0.0395%, 1kHz, -1dBFS @ 48kHz
• Frequency Response: -0.20/+0.05dB, 22Hz to 22kHz @ 48kHz
• Crosstalk: -80dB, 1kHz, channel-to-channel
• Output Impedance: Less than 1 ohm
• Headphone Impedance: 32 to 600 ohms recommended
  
  Minimum System Requirements
• Mac:
• Any G4 or faster, (Intel Mac recommended)
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended)
• QuickTime 6.5 or higher
• DVD-ROM drive
  
  PC:
• 1.5 GHz CPU or faster
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Windows XP or Windows Vista
• Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended)
• QuickTime 6.5 or higher
• DVD-ROM drive

M-Audio Fast Track USB Computer Recording Interface

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Wasted Money

Posted by Daniel from Seattle on Oct 14, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock

I bought this thing hoping to be able to record. It came with the wrong software and has never worked quite right. I got the right software off of the companies web site and got about half of it to work. The customer service from the company is essentially nil. I won't be buying any products from them again.

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Home studio

Posted by ratiugslinky from Pearl City, HI on Oct 8, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, alternative, experimental, acoustic

Just got this in the mail yesterday and I've been using it like crazy. This thing is the best. You can practically record a whole cd with acoustic and vocals with this thing. Especially for the price this thing is BEAST!!! I use it with acoustica mixcraft and works wonderfully. Just plug and play!!!!

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Nice little unit

Posted by Jake Fresh from Detroit Michigan on Oct 6, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: active musician.

Reviewer's Play Style: hip hop/R&B

Picked one up a week ago. was going to get the fast track pro, but didnt need the extra inputs. The sound quality is pretty good. 24 bit 48khz stream gives u good clarity. With the asio drivers active you get pretty low latency wich boggled me when i read reviews on how people were having latency and "clicks and pops" problems. dont listen to them, they either have A) not enough ram or B) dont know much about pc recording and forget to enable the ASIO. or C) their computer sucks in general. I have yet to have to turn the latency up even when a ton of FX and vst's are running. My computer isnt even all that fast. dual core intel, 4 gigs of ram, windows vista. if you want to get your feet wet, and get decent results out of your recordings id recommend it. def. worth the money.

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Posted by cUzDbOi from The Bay... CA on Sep 16, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician, Recordings Engineer, Producer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rap, Hip Hop, R&B, Rock & Country

I have been working as a local producer for quite some time and have performed many different types of recording techniques... this being the best one. I have used it on pro tools apps, adobe audition, cubase and sonar and it gets the job done! No it does not compare to the mbox when you are running pro tools and if I had to do it all over again I think i would have saved a lil more money and went with a fire-wire interface. like I said it gets the job done and is reliable the only thing i do not like about it is is it does not have phantom power.. nice for the price but save and and get fire-wire or mbox if running pro tools

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Pay for what you get!

Posted by FrEQ Seeker from Jxn, MS on Sep 15, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Guitarist, DJ, Project Studio

Reviewer's Play Style: Progressive anything: rock, electro, jazz....

If all you want is one input to get your signal to your daw or computer recording program, and have a tiny budget, this thing is not too bad. I have used it to make many DJ demo cds and the quality of sound I got out of it was actually surprising for the price I paid. There is some latency issue for me though, and when I upgraded my monitors to KRK Rokit 8's I started getting alot of noise from it.

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