What do I need?

[Tony Scharf]

I have the Presonus FireStudio 26x26 + an creamware ADAT converter that
gives me a total of 26 inputs.  I have all my hardware connected up to it,
and do all of my mixing and monitoring in the box.  Presonus also just
released a new driver which allows you to daisy chain units, so I could add
another FireStudio if I wanted to really go insane with IO.

My experience with the FireStudio has been mixed, but thats mostly because I
am using Vista Ultimate, and Presonus doesnt get how to support it properly
(they claim to, but when installing drivers I have to run their installers
in compatibility mode for XP and manually register some DLLs - its really
kinda silly).  I havnt had any experience using them with Mac or Linux.

The latency I get is way way low.  I can mix through the box using Reaper as
my DAW and everything lines up nicely.  In live, I seem to get a bit more
latency, but oddly it seems to come from the MIDI going from controller to
device and not actually Audio latency.  I havnt been able to figure that one
out yet....

Tony

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Tom Adam <tom.adam at thebigear.be> wrote:

>
>
> I use a delta1010 from m-audio. I got one for 80euro from e-bay.
> And it does what it's supposed to do, so I'm happy.
> Not for laptops though....
> ToAd
> www.thebigear.be
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
> [mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of
> Mikael Hansson
> Sent: dinsdag 7 juli 2009 10:31
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: What do I need?
>
>
> Gorman, Declan skrev:
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> >   I am making some additions to my home studio and would appreciate
> > some advice on recording.  I have only ever had the need to
> record one
> > thing at a time in Ableton Live but now I am looking for the ability
> > to record more.  At the moment I have my mixing desk routed back into
> > my soundcards only input but this limits me to recording one input at
> > a time and it also records from the sound card so anything else
> > playing gets recorded.  I plan on having at least 4 other units
> > plugged into the mixer so I would like to be able to record them all
> > separately and at the same time if necessary.
> >
> >
> >
> >   So what do I need?  Do I need a new sound card with more inputs?  Do
> > I need a new mixer with separate outputs?  How do you guys do it?
> >
>
> I just have my Mackie Onyx 400F with 8 inputs to which I have my
> external stuff connected to (Virus TI, Microwave XT, Evolver, Mic,
> guitar) and then directly to my monitors.
>
> I wouldn't get this one today though. I'd look into one of Presonus
> firewire units, http://www.presonus.com
> Either the Firestudio with 8x8 analog I/O + ADAT expandibility or the
> Firetube with 16x6 analog I/O and no expandibility.
>
>
> /Micke
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