USB audio sounds terrible, just me?

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konaboy
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USB audio sounds terrible, just me?

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Hi, so many questions, from a new owner exploring the capabilities of this little synth.

I thought that the USB audio feature would be a big convenience so I hooked up the XI to my DAW (Reaper) using USB ASIO audio drivers from Roland.

LIstening to headphones connected to synth sounds great, but when listening to the recording in the DAW it just lacked punch and clarity, all the levels of the drums and various parts were mushy and just sounded terrible.

So then I tried recording from audio outputs on synth to audio inputs on my PC, and then to audio inputs on my Zoom portable recorder. Both sounded great, they captured exactly what I heard from the headphone output on the synth.

So just me? Otherwise treat this as a cautionary tale, don't bother with the USB audio.
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