so, i purchased this new audio interface to replace my previous m-audio fast track pro usb in hopes that my sound quality would improve. so far i've only gotten the 410 firewire to work once. now it no longer works and the light never stops blinking. i've rebooted the computer, turned off the computer, and unplug/replug the firewire ports. what a piece of crap.

Tonight again I got bored of the sucky sound and latency issues when using my computers audio in to demo songs. I've been using PreSonus Firepod firewire audio interface at the rehearsal studio, but can't be bothered to carry it home everytime.

PreSonus Inspire?

I'm looking for something for my friend who sings and plays piano and just wants to get a relatively clean recording. Right now she's just using her computer's built in mic/card and getting very noisy results without the ability to adjust the input gain. So I'm looking for a very simple firewire interface. Budget is the main consideration.

Alot of people say the Mackie Onyx Satellite has some really quality mic preamp's and quality drivers/converters, especially for the price.

Anybody have experience with this one or have better advice?

Thanks!

HI :D

I'm still looking for a laptop for my TC Electronic konnekt 8...

It's very difficult for me.

I know about problems on toshiba laptops(with konnekt) and firewire chipset that aren't Texas Instruments...

I saw some brands like ADK, RAinrecordings, Sonica... but i live in Italy and they there are not here (and there's no support center).

I connect my PreSonus firepod to my powerbook via firewire, of course. The way my desk is setup though, it's a bit of an inconvenience with the firewire cord only being about 3 feet long. Just wondering, if i went up to an 8 foot or so firewire cable, will i experience any negative side effects?

Well to make this quick, I need to get an external harddrive for recording, and Pro Tools doesn't support USB 2.0 drives so i'm stuck getting a firewire drive BUT, I don't have firewire on my computer, just an empty slot.

I finally got a computer set up for my Phonic 18 channel firewire mixer. Any suggestions on how to wire it up especially for monitoring? Do I use the sound card on the computer or monitor through the board somehow? I'm a virgin at this so please be gentle!

I'm trying to get decent latency with Guitar Rig 3. I'm kinda torn between the USB and FW interfaces. USB's seem to be cheaper but have more probs with the ASIO drivers. The FW's seem a tad more expensive but are stable. I just want to plug into my laptop and jam out in as close to realtime as possible.

Well, it looks like FW3200 (allowing 400 MB/Sec transfer rates) is on its way. Perhaps as early as Februare 2008, the standard may be ratified by the IEEE.

I wonder what implications this will have on the audio world.

Hmmm. 32 channels of bi-directional DSD 5.6Mhz. twould be nice.