Orange OMEC Teleport USB Audio Interface

First: As a programmer I do like the idea of the Teleport to simple use a computer or smartphone to manupulate the sound just-in-time while streaming. I do use the Teleport on a daily bases to develop and to play with the effects and it works really well.But there are quite a few negative aspects I'd like to point out:POWER SOURCE - There is no power source in the package. You cannot power this via pluggin in a battery and you'll need a very good power source which does not introduce noise to the system. In my first setup (Guitar, Teleport, laptop, headphones with internal amp) I experienced quite some noise which could only be extiguished by connecting the Teleport case to the wall plug's ground.NO POWER VIA USB - yes, you'll need USB plus 9V plugged in although this unit needs less than 100mA and runs with a Step-up convert without any issues. Yes, those step-up parts can be quite noisy but if in any way isolated that does not seem to be a problem as my makeshift solution (see photo) with a 2.5€ DC-DC converter does - without the need to ground my case in opposite to a normal power adapter.SOFTWARE SUPPORT - There is a bundled program for Mac and Windows you can download but aside from that there is not much the producer points to as what can be used to use the Teleport - and that while the Teleport does no sound manipulation whatsoever on its own and mandatorily needs software to be of any use. For Windows you'll need to install the Universal ASIO Driver For WDM Audio (asio4all.org) to get a decent latency of less than 10ms which took me some googling to find out. Then you can use either the highly limited Amplitube program or Cantabile (cantabilesoftware.com) where you can load and chain a lot of free effect and amp plugins (e.g. from vst4free.com). For Android there doesn't seem to be any free software that works with the teleport. The only app I found was Deplike and it charges hard to really use more than one effect (but you can test if it works alright). As I do not and don't want to own an Apple device I cannot tell anything about the support there.In conclusion the Teleport is nothing more than a USB soundcard with convenient plugs for instruments and form factor for a pedal board. It is fun to use but hardly worth the price of 100€ - at about 30€ to 50€ of it and I would recommend buying it. Otherwise a good USB soundcard and plug adapters might be a better choice.

The OMEC does what it says it does. Basically it allows you to use your computer as digital amp and as a recording advice. Downloading the Amplitube Software can be problematic and it required several e-mails and phone calls to Orange-USA's technical support staff for me to get the software installed and downloaded. And then I had to play with the settings so that the audio would be routed to my pc's headphone jack.

Una maravilla! Lo uso como interface de audio para grabar guitarras, bajos... Y lo utilizo en directo conectado al iphone, ipad o mac donde llevo mis propios sonidos y efectos. Y poder transformar tu guitarra en unos violines o un órgano es una pasada. La verdad es que estoy encantado.

This is a great investment for any musician - no audio interface is this compact, versatile & easy to use...the price point is more than worth it.It has become the only interface I use live & whenever I just need to to record 1 instrument.

Probably the most useful pedal you can think of. Get one. Period.