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spjessop · 3rd March 2008

I use a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O with my Medion Centrino 1.6Ghz laptop. I bought the laptop reconditioned with a lovely new glossy screen.

The onboard TI firewire causes the Saffire to lose sync over time, but I already had an Adaptec Fireconnect card that works flawlessly.

I had some issues with pops and clicks which I eventually narrowed down to being my own fault as I had reduced the size of the memory allocation for the video. This laptop has shared memory. Back to it's default larger size it works perfectly and the laptop is much snappier now I have 2GB of RAM installed.

I'm quite aware that it's not going to be the greatest sound quality available but for the money it does just about everything I could ever want it to. The mixer is very useful but could do with some metering. In practice once monitoring levels are set off the meters in Sonar anyway and have no need to call up the Saffire mixer again. The unit itself could do with some RCA unbalanced outputs, but I have some jack to RCA adapters that make this a non issue in practice.

I guess it's somewhere between a 1 and 2 only due to my own mistakes. Up until I started fiddling with the BIOS on my Laptop it would have been a firm 1 and this stupidity could have messed up any interface I would have thought.

3rd March 2008	#47
spjessop Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 80	I use a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O with my Medion Centrino 1.6Ghz laptop. I bought the laptop reconditioned with a lovely new glossy screen. The onboard TI firewire causes the Saffire to lose sync over time, but I already had an Adaptec Fireconnect card that works flawlessly. I had some issues with pops and clicks which I eventually narrowed down to being my own fault as I had reduced the size of the memory allocation for the video. This laptop has shared memory. Back to it's default larger size it works perfectly and the laptop is much snappier now I have 2GB of RAM installed. I'm quite aware that it's not going to be the greatest sound quality available but for the money it does just about everything I could ever want it to. The mixer is very useful but could do with some metering. In practice once monitoring levels are set off the meters in Sonar anyway and have no need to call up the Saffire mixer again. The unit itself could do with some RCA unbalanced outputs, but I have some jack to RCA adapters that make this a non issue in practice. I guess it's somewhere between a 1 and 2 only due to my own mistakes. Up until I started fiddling with the BIOS on my Laptop it would have been a firm 1 and this stupidity could have messed up any interface I would have thought.