Comments on: Apogee ONE: USB Interface with Internal Mic, Guitar, Mic In, $249

By: brad

brad — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:05 +0000

Johanthan, have you lost your mind? More for less? Add a friggin zero to the price of the ONE, divide by two. How is 1200$ less money than $250? And please tell me you’re going to throw one of those in your laptop bag. Look, I have not tried the apogee. However, I firmly believe none of you have either. You also have never tried the other gear you’re comparing it to. My mac has a great sound card and the alesis io14 I just received is even better. Noticeably. If the duet is as much better it’s worth it just for the sound. And any decent low-mid-grade condenser mic is 150$. So if this mic is decent, the interface is actually only 100$. Tell you what. I’ll buy one. I’ll ask my buddy in Nashville to check it out next time he’s down and then I’ll post a review. Here’s his gear list: http://www.jdmmobile.com/additionalservices.htm. Mine is not as extensive and costs 1/1000th of what he’s spent. So the two of us will give you a good opinion. You people who just want to talk trash about gear you never have used aren’t helping. Go write reviews on musiciansfriend.

By: jonathan adams leonard

jonathan adams leonard — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:03:23 +0000

You guys must have missed the other product they announced. Its called the Apogee ZERO, costs $200 and you get nothing. But officially this nothing is supported in OSX 10.5.7 and has its own control panel in Logic, which is nice.

Seriously, price per input here is expensive. Since this will only work on Apples, then they can focus on Apple compatibility and performance. Though given that Apple does not standardize its hardware and you never know what chipsets/ports the new laptops will have, this looks like a crapshoot to me. Apogee drank the Apple juice, and Apple only cares about looks so compatibility on future models will be risky. Its too bad Apple’s only really interested in consumer audio.

On the other hand, I sent in notice of the RME FirefaceUC to CDM and still see no mention here. Its not Apple only and specifically RME conceived this new device with a specially designed firmware to offer the widest range of compatibility, with performance comparable to PCI devices in terms of latency – which the beta testers can so far confirm.

The point is innovation and offering more, for less. In this economic climate it is amazing to see Apogee attempt the inverse.

Phantom power off the mac USB bus? Right! So much for those converters and faux-fi.

By: Detroiter

Detroiter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:21 +0000

How is this Apogee mONEygrabber any better than CEntrance’s MicPort Pro or AxePort Pro? They’re clean, quiet, raved about and 24-bit/96khz. Plus CEntrance’s drivers will allow you to aggregate them, if you have a USB port for both.

By: Daniel Page

Daniel Page — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:28:31 +0000

I really like this too. I teach guitar lessons, and have had trouble recommending interfaces to my students because either a) they sound terrible, b) the software is potentialy unreliable, c) the good ones cost too much.

I also try to never recommend items to my students that are going to just be considered “junk” when the next version comes out. This is a nice change, because I have no doubt that at the $250 cost for very sparse features, the quality of the analog components and converters is going to be at least average, and hopefuly a little bit better. Sure, like any consumer oriented interface, it will not be worth anything in a few years, but it should definitely retain its value better than a cheaper brand, and give you some decent quality In/Out in the meantime

I would think about picking one up for myself too…, I have MOTU interfaces (896HD in the studio, Ultralite at Home) that I use all the time, and this would be a perfect, actually “portable,” one to keep in the laptop bag.

And like a previous commenter said, if the omni mic in it is at all decent, it will be really awesome.

By: Machines

Machines — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:17:00 +0000

This looks like a great solution for someone like me who uses the laptop mainly for sketching ideas or rough mixing. A little boost beyond the standard headphone jack and not having to disconnect my MOTU (no matter how small) from my main rig would be awfully nice.

By: Mitchell Kehoe

Mitchell Kehoe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:04:57 +0000

Apogee interfaces are kind of in a different league from mackie or line6…

If you want stereo in and firewire, that’s what a duet is for. I have one and I love it. The quality is just miles above M-Audio and the like, it’s portable, it’s durable, it’s ultra-low latency… I’m kind of interested in how good the built in microphone on the ONE is… If It’s at least in the realm of a $100 condenser mic (and I have no reason to think it won’t be, from apogee) it could be the interface I recommend to all my friends (well, the mac using ones).

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:04:24 +0000

Onyzmizer… and it sounds like $60 too.

By: Onyxmizer

Onyxmizer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:20:14 +0000

line 6 tone port. $60.

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By: cubestar

cubestar — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:18:45 +0000

I think it’s kind of crap that they wouldn’t give you firewire or stereo ins.

Basically, anyone who buys it will soon be upgrading…