@Lucas Junior .. The benefit is essentially null between the specs of the two unless you wish MADI connections which III has in offer. Save the money and go with II.

 

I was really going to the
Antelope Discrete 8 Pro Synergy Core but, after reading all the drivers problems that some users say and all the unstability i choosed to go with the RME Fireface UFX II
I hope i'll not regret it. I don't think so. Great drivers and conversion on RME. But Total Mix scares me a little and heard hat the dsp reverb is not very good, and i record my artists with monitoring with reverb. As i was doing on Universal Audio Apollo. Well, hope it will be a nice upgrade from the Apollo Quad Firewire Silver.

 

Thank you, Yes, i will go with that one and save 300 bucks...

 

I guess you are right , even the Post Service and help on the phone is crap...Its a shame, cause they have nice products. I own a 10M Atomic Clock from them.

 

The DSP is not the greatest in the world but for monitoring just tweek it to your liking. The last song that I recorded I did just that for the first time inside of TotalMix (I'm on a UCX II) and it was perfectly fine.

 

Yes of course, i will just use it for the artist fell good singing, after i'll mix on the box and change tat. Its just for monitoring...

 

yes, UFX II will be fine

 

just as a casual observer, with the way Antelope handled that fiasco about their plugins; there is no way I'd buy anything from them.

People always warn about stuff like that, people buy anyway; and then wonder why they didn't listen in the first place when they do (whatever) to them. "Who knew?"

 

In terms of converters, it depends on the UFX II that you are looking at. The later UFX II models have the same AKM converters and Steadyclock FS as the UFX III, but earlier models doesn't have this. The later UFX II models are basically the same thing as the UFX III, so if you can find one of those cheaper then it's definitely a win. If you are buying it new it should say if it's a Steadyclock FS model or not, but if you are buying a used one you'll have to ask the seller.

 

I'm not suggesting you do this of course; but if I was still using a Apollo Quad Firewire Silver which was discontinued in 2015 and still without problems? I'd probably get another UAD. Especially considering all the expensive plugins you probably have already bought from them.

You might not notice it, but recording using UAD can be like Waves plugins to "customers". We all know there are better plugins, but they do not. What they know is "Waves". UAD is like that for them.

 

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I don't think there's a debate really, RME stands head and shoulders above most of its competition overall.

In some respects, you may favor the sonics of say, Apogee or Lynx or Prism, or the feature set of Focusrite's top shelf, or even Benchmark's DAC over Lynx's for Mastering, but there is little doubt that RME belongs on the Olympic podium any way you slice it - and that their "driver stability" (and performance!) takes both Gold medal and the cake in the industry.

RME also works hard and diligently to support even their legacy products (e.g., the Fireface 800) whereas most manufacturers just "deprecate" their products abruptly and stop supporting them.

Antelope, if I'm not mistaken, despite the recent accolades in the press, doesn't have a stellar reputation when it comes to the above, and its precedent incarnation (Aardvark - remember them?) had acqquired such a sulfurous reputation that the principals of the company shuttered it and rebooted with Antelope.

Reviews are very nice to get a quick overview of technical specs and superficial real world performance - but after six months, a year, or two or four of living and working with a product and putting it through its paces (and hardware and software updates), only then can you truly gauge the professional quality/longevity of a product.

To be fair: I do know a couple of people who've bought Antelope (because they needed 32 I/Os in a 1U) and are happy with it (so far), but in the spirit of fairness I've not ever met, or heard of anyone not happy with their RME interface, or with RME's support.