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headwerkn · 26th February 2008

My Focusrite Saffire was absolute rubbish. Bad build quality. Terrible software. Virtually useless... so useless in fact it turned me off computer DAWs and blondes in general. I now own a Roland VS2400 and date a redhead.

Had generally bad experiences with a Phonic Helix FW-enabled mixer. Used to be pretty good but over the past year it just won't hold a connection on a Mac using CoreAudio. Other guys in the band have more luck using some 3rd party plugin on a PC.

Had very good experiences with my Mackie Onyx Satellite. Only 2 inputs but as a general 5.1 capable sound card/portable audio interface it rocks. Stability on Mac has been rock solid though the FW issues with 10.4.9 took a little while to sort out. On Leopard though - no probs. Plug and play through CoreAudio. Very cheap too these days.

26th February 2008	#33
headwerkn Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hobart, Australia. Posts: 703	My Focusrite Saffire was absolute rubbish. Bad build quality. Terrible software. Virtually useless... so useless in fact it turned me off computer DAWs and blondes in general. I now own a Roland VS2400 and date a redhead. Had generally bad experiences with a Phonic Helix FW-enabled mixer. Used to be pretty good but over the past year it just won't hold a connection on a Mac using CoreAudio. Other guys in the band have more luck using some 3rd party plugin on a PC. Had very good experiences with my Mackie Onyx Satellite. Only 2 inputs but as a general 5.1 capable sound card/portable audio interface it rocks. Stability on Mac has been rock solid though the FW issues with 10.4.9 took a little while to sort out. On Leopard though - no probs. Plug and play through CoreAudio. Very cheap too these days. __________________ "Just because he's in the mix now, he thinks we have to wait for him."